Creating Social Health: Strengthening Democracy at Its Roots

BY THE THREEFOLD SOCIAL ORGANISM MONTHLY MEETING

As a first critical step, how can social threefolding contribute to separating money (and the economy) from the political state?

• How can social threefolding reduce the polarization of our time?
• What steps can we as citizens take to strengthen democracy?
• What can we learn from prior times of similar upheaval?

The conference will envision a healthier society that contains three distinct parts. The independence of these parts—culture, state, and economy—is important so that the fundamental values of freedom, equality, and brotherhood/fellowship can operate in the domain where each belongs! Right now, everything is enmeshed into one system, which is dominated by the use of money as power; the result is that egotism dominates the economy, which then dominates the rest. Human beings created money, we created the misuse of money, and we created our current economic structure. Thus, we have the power to transform our relationships to them. We can create a structure that is in service to humanity and the earth, with money and the economy in their rightful places.

Citizens United in the United States magnified the misuse of money and political power. Given the tumultuous time we are in, we may be at a turning point now, before our situation becomes even more chaotic. This conference will help us see how each of us can strengthen that turn toward a healthier society. There will be substantive time for Q&A.

Our two featured speakers, Virginia Solomón, CEO of Common Cause, and Gerald Häfner, co-founder of Mehr Demokratie (More Democracy), are well-positioned to describe the next steps we need to take. A major first step is getting big money out of politics. Common Cause has decades of experience in that area, and we look forward to learning from them what has worked or not worked on the ground. Gerald Häfner is one of the world’s leading authorities on social threefolding, which describes how the separation of culture, state, and the economy is based on and meets the needs of individual human beings.

This conference is historic because it offers real hope in a fraught time. Every voice counts. Together, we can move mountains.

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