Collective Mind

The Path to a United Humanity

MOUNTAINEER'S STORY

On April 26, 2003, at the age of 27, climber and mountaineer Aron Ralston found himself in an extremely difficult situation. The climber spent 5 days and 7 hours in one of the canyons with his right hand stuck under a boulder. A few days later, when he ran out of food and water, Ralston faced the question: to live or to die.

The climber found a way out: he cut off his arm (see diagram in the image) and, after coping with traumatic shock and the risk of severe blood loss, managed to walk for miles under the scorching sun until he came across some hikers who managed to call a rescue helicopter.

AND WE ARE STUCK IN A RUSSIAN TRAP

This shocking story comes to mind when I think of the situation Ukraine finds itself in....

We are trapped in a Russian bloodthirsty war that has dragged on for an uncertain period of time, and in the absence of real help from our democratic allies, we are faced with a choice: either cut off part of the country to save the state (this is the essence of the "Rasmussen Proposal") or condemn Ukraine to a fatal catastrophe.

The question of the resource of changes (which are coming upon us, upon each country separately and upon the world as a whole) has been analyzed by the Collective Mind and it turned out that this resource is quite voluminous, which gives us hope to look into the future with optimism.

In order to be a subject and not an object of change (i.e. to take action itself and not to be an "object" in someone else's hands), civil society (and every person!) needs to realize and master the resources of this process. 

This information applies to any country, whether it is in Europe, America or Asia (although the discussion was based on Ukraine).

In the spring of 2023, a microgroup of four Kiev intellectuals (MI4) - consisting of Datsyuk, Bebeshko, Chudnovsky, and Nikitin - formulated a series of topical questions for Ukraine in their videos and publications. These questions were collected and structured on Prostir Zlahody into the topic HOW TO LIVE FURTHER (a list of 22 questions).

Of these 22 questions raised by intellectuals, eighteen are about society, namely: 

• STATUTORY SETTLEMENT (3 questions) 
• SOCIAL RELATIONS (3)
• CITIES AFTER THE WAR (4) 
• FUTURE AND PERSPECTIVES (5) 
• INTELLECTUAL VOLUNTEERING (3)

These issues cannot be resolved from above without checking with the opinions, desires, and aspirations of many people and communities. For example, people may not want to live, in new cities so well devised by someone else, because they want to live the way they want to live (remember that there are empty cities in China where people do not want to move!).