Starting over

The powerful forces which are deliberately preserving the status quo in our capitalist world today are incredibly strong. Corporations, the media, and our puppet politicians have a stranglehold on our lives and are destroying our planet. We protest and they just ignore us, knowing that their wealth and power cannot be challenged in our utterly corrupt system.

The world today is hugely complex and globalization over the last couple of decades has added another level of complexity to the world with economies of all nations being interconnected so that now the failure of one can have severe consequences on the others. While most would agree that a democratic society is better than one ruled by a dictator, the developed world with its mixed economies and democratic governments has many huge and significant problems. Nations often have layer upon layer of bureaucracy which has brought our governments to a standstill and made them so ineffective, and corporations have unfair influence over our elected leaders so that rarely are the interests of the people served.

While democratic societies are intended to encourage compromise so that policies reflect the views of all people, the democratic process is simply broken. Money today has completely taken over the political process and the interests of corporations come before the interests of the people as politicians seek reelection with their campaign contributions. This abuse of money and power is so entrenched in our politics that it cannot be changed by the democratic process, and changes to improve our lives and to preserve our environment by the gradual political process will not come in time to save us.

Nutopia is for people who want a society based on common sense which takes all the technological advances we have made and leaves all of our mistakes behind. It is impossible to change the society we have today in the time that we have so the only viable solution is to build a new society from the ground up with the right principles to guide it.

Our very survival as a species is at risk if we don't change our current course from a world of endless consumption to one of sustainability. Nutopia is being designed so that autonomous communities can be built in places all around the world without affecting people or being influenced by people in our current societies. Once Nutopia communities demonstrate that there is a better way for all people to have a good quality of life while still preserving the environment for other generations to come, we can start transitioning our current societies to the Nutopia model.