The Transition

Our society, economy and organisation are complex. Precisely how a conscious common purpose moves us from now to later, and what the results are, is speculative.

To make progress towards our common fulfilment we need to question our current systems and hold our purpose in mind. Crises are common periods for questioning and implementing change. This manifesto is part of that process.

The manifesto is intended as a stake in the ground to mark how far we have come, to ensure we do not digress, and as a statement of shared direction with ideas on the path forward.

But it is not definitive. The details cannot all be worked out here.

To determine and direct the exact detail of how a common purpose of fulfilment without harm is expressed in society would undermine the key theme that control is a form of harm and decision-making is shared. Given this, the decisions on how opportunity and income are shared, so opportunity to contribute and find fulfilment is also shared, must be developed from the input of all of us via the information systems we have constructed.

More than likely these will not be fixed decisions but transforming and transformative ones modified as our society adapts and changes. The ideas on organisation in this manifesto are transformational ones, not final ones; they take us forward, but are not the end of change.

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[Excerpt from The Common Purpose Manifesto]

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