manifestoforchange.org.uk aims to be a crowdsourced, repository of knowledge, ongoing research, and discussion of real ideas. It should be full of thoughts for how we can enact ‘real change’ to the system we live in. It is focused towards the United Kingdom, but really the ideas should be applicable anywhere.
Key to this is that prospective collaborators go into the project with a mentality of ambitious compromise.
To attempt to define what this means:
- your ideals won’t always appeal to the majority and implementation may not be feasible, so be open to discussion
- compromise isn’t a bad thing, in fact it means finding a solution that works
- compromise doesn’t have to mean a worse idea, perhaps it even means finding a better solution to a problem.
Change isn’t easy and requires work and sacrifice, both in developing the ideas and in the implementation
A real issue in discourse at the moment is the ability to accept two things at once. There isn’t one clear solution to world issues, no matter how easy it is for us to look for quick fixes.
Sometimes the political landscape leads to apathy, and a feeling that things can’t change. But this is self-fulfilling.
Ideally this set of information should be a record of ideas, and the discussion, explanation and research that has gone into making them. The actual process of making that happen is not complete, so some work will have to go into the actual technical side of making this vision possible, read more on this README.
Contents will aim to act as a central list of all key ‘policy’ / ‘discussion’ topics, to keep track of important pages. Approach discusses the ‘system’ with which this project should be approached.