I should think the why would be fairly obvious, but to state the matter explicitly. I’m an economist. You don’t have to BE an economist to see that the rules of the current game are rigged. He who has the gold, makes the rules. And the rules they make ensure that they get more of the gold and you get bent over and fucked without lube. With AI development surging, we’re on the cusp of the nightmare scenario where vanishingly few are fabulously, unimaginably wealthy and the rest of us…well, fuck the rest of us. That’s a feature of our winner take all strain of capitalism, not a bug. It’s that way BY DESIGN.

Politicians won’t change the rules in your favor. They literally cannot. They are beholden to those who spent money to get them elected in the first place and in case you thought otherwise, that wasn’t you.

Politicians do as their paymasters command. Your thoughts, wishes and desires don’t even enter into the equation.

Given that, IF we want change (and even if you’re reading these words and feeling undecided about the matter, trust me, you aren’t undecided at all and you very definitely want change), then we’re going to have to effect it ourselves.

That’s what Play the Planet seeks to do.

Beginning in Russell County, VA (population just over 29k), we’re going to build a Holon here. Not the first, by any means. There have been many of them through the ages, but…we have forgotten. I will remind us. All of us.

It’s going to be hard. There’s going to be next to no visible progress for quite an extended period of time, because…well….we’re building a brand new thing. If we move too quickly, the new thing will break apart before it has a chance to grow strong. So we’ll go carefully, but we WILL get there.

I’m literally staking my life on it, and I don’t gamble lightly.