A Spanish Grandee said 400 years ago, that wars are won by the side that has “the last escudo”.
If our societies are to Kick Command and Control we will need billions of escudos, and dollars, euros, pounds, roubles, pesos, rupees and reals.
Bill Gates' parents gave $400 Million to Cambridge University to endow the Gates leadership programme, for example. The Gates' gift is just a tiny fraction of the money available to force-feed Command and Control KoolAid to future generations and reinforce its lobotomising effects on their elders.
If we are to be serious players in the battle to help the human family come through the 21st Century in good shape, the sooner we have serious money to spend on our campaign the better. Do not think for a moment that it can be done by a few willing volunteers. It will take an army of volunteers, and it will also take money to set up and keep such an army going as the Obama Campaign showed. The other side has won so far because they are not shy of asking for, contributing and spending serious money to advance their cause.
On the basis of a successful multi-lingual 24/7 internet Forum, we can diversify into newspaper columns, books, radio and TV programmes and films, research grants, professional and academic journals, consultancies, think-tanks and hundreds of Kicking Command and Control Conferences.
It won't happen overnight of course, but there's no point in being tentative about our aims. As Dee Hock suggests, the fate of our children and grandchildren (and of Grandma Gaia herself, of course) depends on this Forum having the resources to turn Kicking Command and Control into an international obsession.
So, please look at Susan George's classic account of how just one part of the other side goes about influencing public opinion, and consider making a serious contribution to our work. A small percentage of your income and/or your business's profits or a slice of your foundation's funding, is what we have in mind. To contribute, click here.
