More war or more worlds?

Multi-age youth tournament across Campo Nuevo multi-field complex in the Emiliano Zapata section of Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico - July 13, 2024 (Martin Schwab). Are we humans engaged in a multi-faction civil war that began in 1494 or teething in the cradle of a multi-galactic team concept that began in 1975? We live not on one… Continue reading More war or more worlds?

Camaraderie through endeavor – across spacetime: Reflections and recommendations from a participant-observer of late 20th century American football and 2020s solar system(s) building

Yellow Springs High School, facing west - Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States, Fall 1988. By necessity, American football integrates all human body types in unison. Imagine all body politics across our world operating together like a great American football team and that we survive present multiple-simultaneous threats, turn future-emerging threats into opportunities and thrive for… Continue reading Camaraderie through endeavor – across spacetime: Reflections and recommendations from a participant-observer of late 20th century American football and 2020s solar system(s) building

Israel and the nation-state system are immoral: We need to construct synergistic cultural bioregions across Earth and beyond

Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico - February 22, 2025 (Martin Schwab). The events of October 7, 2023 were abnormal, surreal and episodic, born from 75 years of the United Nations, United Kingdom and the United States enabling a gross power imbalance that favors Israel over Palestine. Specifically, the actions and overreactions of all parties involved1 were… Continue reading Israel and the nation-state system are immoral: We need to construct synergistic cultural bioregions across Earth and beyond

SOWING ACCORD SERIES, 6 of 6: A four-point framework for powering down the nation-state system (1648-present) while powering up solar system exploration (2021–2030) among eight billion humans

1) Global elitists in control of current nations and multinational corporations become co-equal parts of a team of eight billion humans, jettisoning current pariah status among the human majority. 2) Exchange of currencies, including cryptocurrencies and social credit systems, vestiges of [ancient Mesopotamia-derived] artificial scarcity-based economics is replaced with synergistic interchange, a form of abundance-based… Continue reading SOWING ACCORD SERIES, 6 of 6: A four-point framework for powering down the nation-state system (1648-present) while powering up solar system exploration (2021–2030) among eight billion humans

SOWING ACCORD SERIES, 5 of 6: July 2121 – a century in review

Backcast scenario sketch: Galactic expansion among humans catapulted by dissolving the nation-state system and artificial scarcity-based economics In late July 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, a critical mass of humans who had been psychologically entrapped within the nation-state system broke free when confronted with vaccine passport mandates within nations. (Over the previous year of the… Continue reading SOWING ACCORD SERIES, 5 of 6: July 2121 – a century in review

SOWING ACCORD SERIES, 4 of 6: A prototype socioeconomic reality of humans advancing across the solar system – 2021-2071

Military industrial complexes (MICs) transformed into exploration information networks (EINs) The following text is a “prototype sketch” that allows readers to refine concepts on their own and even begin implementing in part(s) as they see fit and are able. This piece is not political analysis (what is), political commentary (what and who is to blame)… Continue reading SOWING ACCORD SERIES, 4 of 6: A prototype socioeconomic reality of humans advancing across the solar system – 2021-2071

SOWING ACCORD SERIES, 3 of 6: Why do we really live?

A hard question with "cheat sheet" provided During this uncertain time, wherever we are in our world and in our individual lives, we all need to ask ourselves: Why do we really live? If our honest answers are any of the following, they are not good enough. 1) To keep living 2) To provide for… Continue reading SOWING ACCORD SERIES, 3 of 6: Why do we really live?

SOWING ACCORD SERIES, 2 of 6: Humans on the move

Prospects for synergistic power across the solar system and eventually beyond We now have the opportunity to construct synergistic power among close to eight billion individual humans. If we the majority of humans focus on doing this in many ways both preliminary and eventual, those few who guard their entrenched power relative to others in… Continue reading SOWING ACCORD SERIES, 2 of 6: Humans on the move

SOWING ACCORD SERIES, 1 of 6: Post-hierarchical political and economic options from a solar systems perspective

Prospects for human expansion beyond Earth, enabled by a knowledge-based economic system yielding practical abundance through interchange (not exchange) and non-authoritarian heterarchy Welcome to Sowing Accord, a new project of mine here at 3x3 Global Drills. After receiving my Ph.D. in political science (international relations) from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2012, I… Continue reading SOWING ACCORD SERIES, 1 of 6: Post-hierarchical political and economic options from a solar systems perspective