Mexico - here we come!

It was the 25th of November 2010, just some days left until the beginning of the COP16, the Climate Change Conference in Cancun, when we walked over the bridge into Mexico!!! Thousands of people helped us wherever we came, more than 330 vehicles gave us a ride and it took us almost a year to cover the 24 000km from The Hague, Netherlands, crossing Europe, Africa, the Atlantic Ocean and finally a big part of Latin America to get here. Thanks to the people our dream came true and “The Journey of Humanity” became reality, shifted our mind, opened our hearts and showed us how good and precious humans are by nature.

Forward the (r)evolution

All crisis are consequences of wrong decisions or displaced behaviour, symptoms showing that something went wrong somehow in the system. Crisis are therefore sometimes the best opportunities -and maybe the only one- to realise that the way we have been following was a dead end. The last economical crisis that shake the world for a couple of years is a wake up call. A signal, send to our brains like a headache, or a stomachache when we wake up after a crazy night of excess.

Modern societies went too far, we went too far, pushing our greediness over the limits of nature. Growth, richness, competition, wars, hunger, injustices, unhappiness...new sets of values founded some hundreds years ago that we still sustain today without thinking too much about the real consequences...

The Freedom of Choice or the Choice to be Free

Since a couple of centuries the freedom of the people changed dramatically, from servants, slaves, hard working peasants, factory workers etc. towards a week of just 5 working days and in many parts of the world with “only” 8h of actual working time per day. It seems that the humans jumped out of the slavery box into a new one, a box which is transparent and with no text on it. We feel more free than ever, we can buy more stuff than any generation before us, we have tons of stores to choice our products from, more than 100 different channels in our favorite box, the television. We even have access to Internet and therefore basically the key to all information available online. We use cellphones, Iphones, Blackbarries, Calendars, Notebooks, Twitter, Facebook and many other mediums to stay informed about what is going on in the world and about what we still “have” to do.

We believe in the system, we believe to be always reachable, available, on time, because being on schedule gives us the opportunity to do more, to maximize our efficiency to be closer to our loved ones and the ones we just need in order to have more “freedom” of choice. But what does freedom actually means for us? Is it not in reality a hidden box of less freedom than any other box humanity was trapped in before, but we don’t realize it?