Worldview and Beliefs

Worldsight Individual striving for recognition, greed for money, thirst for power and political megalomania, irresponsible and unsolidarity actions of international corporations and finance capital (keywords financial speculation, banking crisis) continue to destroy our livelihoods. The consequences and effects are now visible and tangible for everyone: Man-made climate change, continued exploitation of resources, social violence and acts of war, increase in migration, unemployment and poverty and the spread of dictatorships. This and much more makes it difficult to develop confidence and to believe in a good future with a successful life to get or to receive.

In such a dilemma with highly problematic constellations, the development of future perspectives is indispensable in order to obtain orientation and a compass for current actions. Here are a few hypotheses to be discussed:

1. We need a survival orientation conveyed by the United Nations (UN) and subordinate political institutions, which is carried by the media into all spheres of society, into politics and into the economy.

2. The capitalist economy must be increasingly transformed through an orientation towards ecologically balanced, health-related and sustainable production. Sustainable entrepreneurship has the effect of changing the market and society (e.g. Schaltegger et al. 2023).

3. The UN commit themselves to a peace policy supported by a majority. Warmongers and "death dealers" are despised and eliminated worldwide. The previous insanely high spending on military and armaments is based on need to divert trustworthy actors to ecologically, socially and economically affected regions and to distribute them to survival projects.

4. In the area of political orientation, this involves encouraging the development of guiding principles, such as those for (energy-)self-sufficient and liveable communities, or for growing communities. With regard to future planning, initiatives such as district development or urban development planning can be encouraged or enriched with contributions. The organisation of future conferences and future workshops promotes citizen participation and, as experience shows, has an inspiring effect and stimulates projects (Jungk & Müllert 1997; Stange 2000; Böttger 2006).

To achieve this, we need a transformative crisis and peace policy that is geared towards the common good and based on human rights.

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5. A healthy lifestyle contributes significantly to well-being. This includes need-based consumption of food and sustainable clothing (fair trade). Beneficial social contacts and creative cultural activities strengthen the psycho-mental health and improve quality of life.

6. Cultural institutions involved in the transformation (e.g. daycare centers, schools, vocational training centers and universities, district culture and traditional culture) can convey appropriate morals, attitudes and virtues that guide our education, our actions and togetherness.

7. The adaptation and sufficient financing of the reproductive structures ensure the basic care and special assistance in the health and care system as well as in youth, family and social assistance.

8. This includes networking, promoting and strengthening future-oriented and constructive actors so that new Strategies and action alliances developed and implemented.

9. The destructive forces of business, politics and society must be identified and politically disavowed. These include the Combating fascist and populist-manipulative actors, negative lobbying, corruption and the deselection of their Stakeholders.