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PROPOSITION

Land provides nutrition to the food chain, minerals, metals and energy, all requisites of human life and culture. 

The landforms with organic attachments constitute habitats and landscapes. They are the diversities that inspire art and curiosity, the driving forces of science. 

The ways humans relate to the environment, secure collective survival and prosperity in the face of adversities have given rise to the philosophy.

Mankind is collective by nature, yet has no collective experience of the world. The world is sensed, measured and experienced by the individuals, whose common perceptions have become the general knowledge through exchange of information, debate and consensus. The individual is, therefore, rightfully the centre of his or her world, the source and creator of the common wealth in art, science, technology and economy, summarised in one term; CULTURE.

The individual's free thinking, reasoned choice, and drive for security have created the most sophisticated collective that planet Earth has ever witnessed.

The state of art, science, philosophy and common wealth is the summary conclusion of mankind's past and the foundation of future.

With the population explosion and inherent proliferation of activities, the concepts of science have been diluted with matters insufficiently debated, art born from commercialism and philosophies subservient to vested interests. 

The leadership of the so called "Western Democracies" have deteriorated into traders. They trade human rights as a commodity with their totalitarian colleagues of Mid and Far East. At home and abroad the "Democratic Leadership" has quietly abandoned observing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which has born from the universal soul search for responsibility that followed the global disaster and immense human suffering of World War 2.

Lacking wisdom and dedication at leadership level, building wealth and influence with indiscriminate means, and the proliferation of incoherent growths have created chaos, economic, political, religious and human disasters that keep striking mercilessly at national and continental levels. 

The conflicting interests of leaderless world threaten perversion of the future at the time when mankind prepares to penetrate the Universe to meet the challenges of distance, new resources, habitats and intelligence other than ours.

The exploits of human adventures in the space are set to follow the tragic pattern of colonisation in the Americas, Africa and Asia. It also carries the threat of confrontation with, and potential retaliation by advanced civilisations.

Possible encounters with cultures in the state of paranoia, similar to what mankind experienced in the post-war decades, call for global trust and unity, advanced science and technology to protect the culture of mankind, and to secure the very existence of the race and Home Planet.

The encounters with intelligence may however be peaceful and beneficial, provided mankind acts from the platform of unbiased fairness and universal ethics. 

It is time, therefore, to -

• Review the building blocks of mankind's culture of today against the underlying fundamentals, fortifying those that fit, return for further work or discard those, which do not fit.
  
  
• Develop the criteria of Leadership, which delivers mankind to and through the challenges, maintaining throughout the human values, dignity, freedom of the individuals, contentment and security.
  
  
• Develop the means of control and accountability of leadership by the collective of individuals.
   
• Restore the standards of public education to represent the rich heritage of art, science, philosophy, ethical and and humanistic norms.
  
  
• Reinforce the sovereignty of every nation, in order to preserve diversity in traditions and ways of thinking, from which benevolent competition springs in every aspect of life.
  
  
• Eliminate the contrast between poor and rich nations by providing education, expertise and affordable means by the rich to assist the progress of poor to proceed at their own and affordable speed.
  
  
• Build trust amongst the nations to eliminate conflicts in order to foster peaceful evolution, and allow the development of united global defence.
   
• Respect and maintain all the way the freedom and dignity of the individual; the building block of human collective and sole source of thought.
  

The FORUM calls upon the individuals of all walks of life, the creators of culture and custodians of the future, to contribute to this review.

You are invited to share your thoughts, experience and aspirations by the Convenor,

AGRICOLA 2000

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