Holistic Reform: A Call for Action
Preface
For 60 years, I organized supportive, activist egalitarian communities. In recent decades, to explore how activists might better help bring about fundamental and comprehensive reform, I’ve conducted strategy workshops, engaged in extensive research, shared drafts of proposals, interviewed individuals, circulated online surveys, and experimented with specific methods. Now I sum up what I’ve learned.
My primary goal has been a fair and kind society. My methods have changed, but my main thrust has remained the same: promoting fundamental structural change. Now I call it holistic and systemic reform.
It’s holistic because it involves the whole person and the whole society.
It’s systemic because it proposes 1) a new primary purpose for our society and 2) new ways of organizing our activities to serve that purpose — while preserving healthy traditions.
Utopia is impossible, but with pragmatic idealism, we can make steady progress. We can make incremental improvements that move in the same direction while building support for deep change.
The proposals presented here aren’t a blueprint. Rather, the focus is to 1) articulate a worldview that might serve as a foundation for lasting unity and 2) present specific proposals for action that flow from this worldview.
I know my current audience is small and I may be wrong on major points. Nevertheless, the response I’ve received so far has been largely supportive, and what I’m saying is unique, and I believe it’s important. Moreover, with the benefit of the wisdom of crowds, I constantly gain clarity about the nature of Truth, Justice, and Beauty and enjoy sharing my discoveries.
I hope someday, thousands will be engaged with this project. In the meantime, I work AS IF they already are and aim to produce the highest quality website possible. Many others are on the same wavelength. Eventually, we may grow in number and come together to help change the world profoundly.
Many people have helped with this project, but I assume responsibility for the final edits. I invite you, dear reader, to share your thoughts, experiences, and suggested resources to help improve this effort.
—Wade Lee Hudson
2/22/24