WHAT KIND OF TOMORROW?
Exploring scenarios for humanity can answer pressing questions, such as why it is important to pay attention to possible, probable and preferred futures in the stories we create. Before this we must first answer the following: Who is privileged at the level of knowledge? Who gains at economic, social and other levels? Who is silenced? What are the politics of truth?
Collectively imagining a better future means cultivating emotional intelligence by thinking beyond the paradox of right and wrong, light and dark, liberal and conservative – to imagine a different world.
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In this context, The Saville Foundation believes that symbiotic philanthropy has a role to play in realising healthy future scenarios. By redefining intelligence through consciousness-based education, and connecting regeneration of the self with regeneration of the environment, we can transform our world.
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The following 3 scenarios inspire us to co-create a better tomorrow. ​
1.
THE ADVANCED
CAPITALISM
SCENARIO
Humanity has lost the war against the consumer culture, military-industrial complex and the political economy of surveillance capitalism through AI. It has succeeded in commodifying human identity.
Earth is a human and plant monoculture. Individuals are physical clones of one another. With GM food there is no more world hunger, but also no more bees or flowers. With everyone fed, people work to afford the meaningless materialisms they produce.
There is no more biodiversity, but markets thrive, decentralised cryptocurrencies are over-regulated and stocks are up. Consumerism and commodification remain the greatest value and highest goal to attain.
The hunger of the soul to be unique and innovative is psychologically suppressed by media.
The spark of humanity has been extinguished.
People are paralysed by mass media and entertained through dystopian movies in pop culture - while millions live in real dystopia.
Traction in the development world goes unrecognised, and previous generations are blamed for the state of the planet. This orchestration successfully diverts attention from the multinational extractives industry who are the real culprits. They live guilt-free in greed and boredom, concocting more ways to profit off global fear.
Media psychology keeps human attention on political power dramas instead of invested in those working on real solutions. No one talks about the world beyond, so there is no light at the end of the tunnel to focus on collectively.
The 'current future' stays on the same trajectory, nothing changes. Systemic innovation is swallowed up by duality and division, and humans continue to celebrate mediocrity.
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THE 'CURRENT FUTURE'
SCENARIO
3.
THE 'WHOLE IS MORE THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS'
SCENARIO