My friends Asa Jomard and Gijs Van Beeck Calkoen wrote a blog post recently calling for people to APC possible new ideologies to emerge in the future. Below is my effort:

Systemists

• Want to see societal systems working well.
• Call for government to devote resources specifically to understanding systems.
• Interpret peoples’ actions in terms of system behaviour rather than individual behaviour.
• Educate themselves and others in systems thinking.

Happyists

Happyists would:

• See happiness as a legitimate goal.
• Have a very precise definition of happiness (contentment rather than excitement, long term satisfaction rather than short term fix).
• Be happy for others.
• Encourage others to do things that makes them happy.

Engagementists

Engagementists would:

• Want to see people engage with each other in meaningful, constructive and positive ways.
• Seek to engage warmly with others.
• Call on the government to further the aims of engagementists eg. set up a department of community engagement.

Charmists

Oscar Wilde suggested:

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”

Charmists:

• Would, where required, send themselves and their children to charm school.
• Encourage others to be charming.
• Read books like Edward de Bono’s “How to have a beautiful mind” for clues on how to be charming.

Creativists

Creativists would:

• Laud those who generate original and useful ideas.
• Train themselves to be more creative.

Learningists

Learningists would:

• Encourage people to learn.
• Laud those who make it easier for people to learn.
• See learning as not as a mere collection of facts (which has now been superseded by technology), but as appreciating new useful patterns.

Futurists

Futurists would:

• Looks at the world from the perspective of the future.
• Explore possibilities for the future.
• Call for governments to set up a "Department for the future".

Beautyists

Beautyists:

• Are, in a sense, like aestheticists, but see beauty in everything, not just art.
• Seek out original forms of beauty.
• Encourage others to take an interest in beauty.
• See beauty where others may not see beauty.
• Show beauty to others (many examples from Asa).

DeBonoists

De Bonoists would:

• Celebrate the work of Edward de Bono.
• Read books and actively pursue ideas developed by Edward de Bono.
• Periodically ask themselves, "What would Dr de Bono say or do here?"

Phil Bachmann 31 May 2019