WELCOME to the PARTICIPATION

FIRST PREMISE: PRACTICALITY

We all have to put a plate on the table. To give work and knowledge for free is not in the practical and competitive parameters of a capitalist economy of production and consumption. The definition of practical is made by the economical context that prevails in a specific territory, since in a communist society, being practical is being a communist, and in a capitalist society, being practical is being a capitalist. In a system like ours, altruism is not practical, maybe in a near future it will be.

SECOND PREMISE: REALITY

In the other hand, the cooperative economy, that is based on altruism, it can also be corruptible, like all the best ideas in the world and lead to the individual freedoms upon which the democratic structures are based, to remain saturated by endless debates, confusion and provoked immobility.

Unfortunately, the immobility is a benefit searched actively in politics, law, administration, economy and many other fields. It is part of the functional rhetoric to block people in the exercise of their rights, no matter the contextual economical structure. Altruism, as it is not practical, generates the exact opposite, which is the immobility for convenience. On top of that, if there are active saturating agents, this immobility becomes chronicled.

Who overcomes this state of immobility and jumps towards the impracticality of altruism, is because his/her rationality is already saturated from seeing things that do not work well, can be done better and asks him/herself: “can I help for things to be done better?, no!… I am only one person!…can you imagine?…no, I don‘t believe it… I am only one person“…up until being one person does not matter any more, but what does it mean to exist as a person.

Altruism is not realist (however, it exists and has economic, legal, international and administration structures, as much as real detractors). Immobility is in fact realist, because it is easy and practical. People with creativity are the annoying fly to immobility, because we do not attain ourselves to the imposed practical principles (definition of practical from the economic system that prevails in the immediate environment), nor we remain quiet, and we make a lot of noise, nor it is more important to us the realism of reality than the realism of our hopes.

… Heresy?

THIRD PREMISE: DUALITY

In light of this, how do we balance it? Well, like the glass that is half full or half empty, both truths coexist at the same time, creating a third truth: that the volume of water is the same in both opinions, the only difference is the way we look, if it is either optimist or pessimist, but in neither case, our feelings cannot physically alter the real volume of the water that there is in fact in the glass, therefore, they are both true.

And a fourth truth: that the volume of water can be measured and adapted, as much as our way of seeing as well. And a fifth truth: that is an artificial scenario with our ways of seeing as the object of study.

Surely many more truths could be extracted from something as simple as a cup with some water inside, but I wish to focus on the third one because it talks about the material world: Reality and dream coexist, practicality and impracticality as well, coherence and incoherence…and amongst all the people who participate in the social and public life, who debate and vote, this functional equilibrium so much needed, is achieved.

This project has been published for considering that we are a prepared and alert society. It is not blind faith in humanity, as we all know we are not perfect and that is what join us together. It is not romantic idealism, that loves very big lost causes and heads blindly towards immortalisation. It is not revolting imagination, that plays for the sake of pure curiosity. It is science, pure empiric fact, in Barcelona, August 2021.

How can I demonstrate that is empiric? At this moment, the idea has already a name, a web domain, a style book, a philosophy, a functional prototype and a campaign that has come up from only one person, with full understanding that I cannot mother an idea of such nature. Based on the idea of the coexistence of opposing truths, the opposing idea already exists.

Which truth is more practical today, the Sunon one or the coexistent?

Which truth will be more practical in 100 years, the Sunon one or the coexistent?

FOURTH PREMISE: SYNCHRONY

Economical, political and social systems do not get changed overnight. They are constructions resulting from synchronic consciences that have been evolving in a space through the passing of time. Consciousness, space, time and synchrony.

The Consciousnesses of Freedom and Equality, the basis for Democracy, have been developed since the French Revolution. The Consciousness of Social Welfare started around the sixties in different European countries (France, Germany, Britain, Spain, …). The Consciousness of Respect towards the Environment and Sustainable development, if you remember when it all started it means you were synchronised, if you do not remember, you might have not been synchronised or might have been very young then.

The space is here, in our neighbourhoods, since we know them well and know how many hours of sun we have in a winter day or in a summer day or if a mountain or the building in front casts a shadow on us. We know well the little corners of our neighbourhoods and how the sunlight falls, where is the public bench to sit down where there is a shadow in the summer, or the public fountain that will provide hot water or cold water. We know the structure of the building where we live, we know if the wall insulation installed is good, or in winter we realise is of very poor quality. We know if the terrace in our building can be walked onto, if it would sustain the weight of photovoltaic panels or everything would collapse. We know if the glass in our windows is double-glassed or not, if it is Eco glass or not. We know the jacaranda tree at the square of Riera de Sant Miquel flowers in May and casts a shadow until it looses the leaves in autumn. We know the light, the warmth of out vital spaces. Empiricism, pure vital empiricism. Then, why do we not value all this knowledge?, because we do not hold a PhD or Engineer degree?, maybe your knowledge would help the specialist to design better projects. Only if we would talk more.

The time is now. Let’s start designing how we are going to provide for the basics of tomorrow, just in case the new tyrants of the future are the energetic giants, caused by our immobility today.

The synchrony is decided by each person, in their space, time and consciousness. When the synchrony happens, is when change is possible, and is marvellous to be part of history.

I leave the Sunon project onto the hands of the neighbourhood and Councils of Catalonia that wish to study and develop the idea, altogether with the professionals qualified and the citizens. The equilibrium will be found in the synchrony of consciousnesses, space and time.