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Common sense is not so common. ~Voltaire~ Dec 03, 2009
By Brandy L. Hatcher
As the title of this post claims, common sense is something we expect everyone to have, yet so many people show so little of it. And sometimes the problem isn't that we lack common sense, it is simply that the problem and/or solution have not presented to us in a universal method.
The Attlas Project by Attila Lewis Lendvai provides that method which brings common sense back to some of our modern society's most daunting issues. Lendvai promises to provide us "micro-solutions" which will lead to "macro-effects". He does this by taking the universal language approach to describing the problems and providing simplified solutions (essentially bringing the process to a manageable size).
What is this special language you ask? Visual aids. You read right, and the book is peppered with them. These visual aids are very useful in seeing Lendvai's concepts without the need for excessive amounts of jargon (think of the unpleasant task of reading legal documents). Unfortunately, if you look at the visual aids alone (as you do at the start of each Chapter) they only make a limited amount of sense, but the explanations are very easy to understand.
There are many references within the book that will quickly date the material, but with doomsday predictions looming over our head in a few short years that doesn't seem to be much of a problem. The indication this gives me is that Lendvai intends for action to be taken now. We are not meant to allow this book to wait for its own moment, we as SEEtizens need to act now and boldly lest our opportunity to prevent our own destruction passes by without notice.
On the positive side of this book, Lendvai follows through on his promise to provide real world solutions which would function in our current society. The physical ability for the system to be implemented is very plausible and in theory would work out better for us in the long run. Unfortunately, a lot of people (read: a vast majority of people) would have to be on board to really make some of the solutions viable. Also, the solutions center on the well-developed countries (USA, Canada, Europe) and seem focused on governments where democracy in its current form already exists (ideally at least). For effective use of his ideas in the form of "The Attlas Project" this would certainly be where we would need to start. If we all got together and agreed a major overhaul of representative democracy needed to occur then his idea would win my vote (which I would gladly place on his "wiki-policy").
Beyond his real world solutions (ranging from solving democracy, economics and marketing, and even our ego-based culture) he provides something I find even more valuable: discussion. The Attlas Project website provides a platform to constructively discuss those issues which we face as a world and find ways of moving past the negativity and cynicism that plagues our world to find a more positive method of traversing.
The Attlas Project serves as a book which begins providing our world with the missing pieces we need to solve this puzzle we call Earth.
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