At least several billion people understand that we have a crisis worldwide and it's getting worse.
We are currently on a path that, unchecked, will culminate in climate collapse, making the Earth hostile to human life and nearly uninhabitable. Our civilization is organized to keep billions of people working in servitude to a tiny elite. All that work and production wastes lives and turns the planet into a garbage dump.
We need a remedy. We keep hoping, begging authorities, others, to DO SOMETHING. Yet, nothing changes, except to get worse.
The solution, the remedy, isn't out there. WE are the remedy. We The People—ordinary people who have no authority, minimal resources, little expertise. We, the exhausted, the struggling, the frustrated, the fearful.
We face what seems to be a dire, perhaps hopeless situation. But it isn't. There's good news! We aren't dependent on the people currently in charge, people who don't care about us or the Earth or anything but themselves—their wealth, their political careers, their yachts, their golf games.
No, we can fix this crisis ourselves. Really.
And what, exactly, is the remedy?
Our Remedy Addresses All 4 Parts of the Crisis
The worldwide crisis is multifaceted, with some facets rarely identified—simply accepted as "the way things are." But our remedy addresses all of them, seeking to make the biggest impact in the shortest amount of time—because we are running out of time.
SERVITUDE
Most people spend—waste!—their lives in senseless, useless, even destructive labor. Time is life, and throwing it away in servitude to selfish elites—whether plutocrats, dictators, businessmen or anyone else—is a secular sin.
VIOLENCE
We are randomly subjected to unnecessary violence, sometimes in war as combatants or civilian casualties. Or domestic repression under the guise of law enforcement. Or other abuses by people who control things and are, therefore, never held accountable.
STARVATION
We need food to live and, unless we submit to authorities in the form of providing labor and taxes and fulfilling other demands, we are denied food and other necessities which Nature requires for a human being to survive.
ECOCIDE
Most of our labor is unnecessary, but required to benefit elites. This overproduction damages and ultimately destroys the biosphere and climate of the planet that sustains us. We are in the danger zone and moving at full speed towards catastrophe.
These awful challenges are systemic (NOT natural) and we address them by changing the systems that make them inevitable.
We are getting rid of are systems of elitism, of hierarchy. We don't need to overthrow these systems. We simply need to do something else. Without our active support, bad systems simply cease to exist. We will replace the current ways with a community-based society, with neighbors—not monarchs, dictators, or plutocrats—making decisions, with a focus on the common good.
Big Idea
Much of what the Rems seek to do is simply communicating and acting with human decency.
We intend to be the change we want in the world. But there is a strategy and there is also a Big Idea.
The strategy centers on establishing resilient supportive neighborhoods, to form the humane backbone of a new civilization. These important changes can be spearheaded even by lone individuals where they live.
We also intend to change the narrative, replacing the old "people are selfish and violent" nonsense with "we can all be kinder and live together as neighbors."
But the Big Idea is this: most labor and all servitude is unnecessary and destructive. We will end excessive labor and expand our freedom to live as we please.
We are trading away stuff—mostly crap products—for more time. And more time is more life! This slashing of labor will not only allow us more life, but it will sharply slash C02 and other toxic emissions with which we are destroying the biosphere and the beauty of our planet.
A similar viewpoint has been promoted rather negatively, as "degrowth"—a civilization where we are required to produce less due to the sins of the past. But we see less stuff as a result of less work as no sacrifice.. For us, it is choosing more life over more stuff.
With a new narrative, decentralized strategy, beautiful vision of the future, and a core group to support and promote all of it, we intend to ensure that human civilization realizes its most magnificent possibilities.