Adventure requires leaving your comfort zone. If you’ve read, “The Hobbit”, then you know that Bilbo leaving the comfort of his home was a big deal. In fact the only reason Biblo left his home at all is that Hobbits also have a built in adventurous character.
Chances are if you are reading this then you share a similar character as that of Bilbo.
A way to think about adventures is that there is large unknown risk that doesn’t exist when compared to staying at home. The unknown risk is both exciting and fearful.
We are not pioneers of yesteryear who risked their lives crossing oceans and land with high risk of death and misery. There is an early, educational video game, “The Oregon Trail“, where it is nigh impossible to complete the trek without everyone dying. This is not the MGO adventure risk level.
As scary as starting an MGO is the odds of death are nothing like our pioneering ancestors.
What do you need to form an MGO in no particular order:
- A two hectare plot of land.
- Build a campus with a water supply and power plant. And, oh yeah, sewage.
- A constitution for the MGO.
- Thirty people.
- A Chef.
I mean, where’s the life threatening risk?
What are the risks?
First and foremost the risks are financial. Today we individually manage our money. MGOs collectively manage their money.
We all very much have life-threatening risks in today’s society based upon financial capability.
MGOs will resolve these risks ultimately. The MGO provides all survival resources such as food, water, shelter and healthcare throughout ones entire life. Of course the MGO scale of size thirty means the capability to provide these is limited. Healthcare that the MGO cannot provide will be the product of projects in the great society and that’s a bigger risk than relying just on the MGO.
One way to prepare your own mind for the MGO adventure can be a rationale similar to what our pioneering ancestors used: for the children. Irreni Society will take on the order of four-hundred years to fully realize. So your adventure will be laying the groundwork for future generations. Pain and suffering from failed MGO attempts can be rationalized in this way.
But I don’t think we need to go that far into the future. Our governments are failing today. Everyday we are all feeling new pain and suffering due to this.
MGOs and Irreni Society will bolster existing governments. People who live in MGOs require less government services. As populations become less dependent on government then governments can become more focused.
The problem with existing corruption is that a corrupt government cannot ever fix itself. Once corrupt the destiny of a government is remain at that level of corruption and efficacy or worsen. At some tipping point of corruption a government can no longer stop runaway growth of corruption until that government finally collapses. This is where we find ourselves facing today in the United States. The government is going to completely collapse.
MGOs are a bulwark against government collapse. MGOs are a survival society.
The financial risks we face today will kill you where two such big killer risks are healthcare and retirement. Further education requires money most people don’t have and that puts quality of life at risk.
But it is a sad adventure to simply venture as a survival effort.
We want productive and quality lives.
MGOs represent the next generation of productive and quality lives in what’s left of existing functional government.
The primary mechanism for improving productivity and quality is simply pooling resources. MGOs will have the purchasing and legal power of corporations. Corporations have legal loopholes and such we as individuals don’t have. The tax write-offs alone will be worth it.
But really, the real adventure is the romantic adventure of creating a society. You’ll be setting up a farm; setting up a power plant; setting up manufacturing facilities for things like clothing. The romantic possibilities are only limited by your imagination and the resources a thirty-person community can muster.
And then of course there will be others. If you choose to establish your MGO within a greater community of many other MGOs then MGO partnering and pooling resources is available. Then, of course, our MGO will want to join a management organization, Irreni Society.
In many ways thinking about venturing into an MGO versus what you live today is similar to thinking about flying versus driving.
Driving is far riskier than flying. Odds are you’ve been in a car accident and so has most of your immediate circle of families and friends. Yet it is common for people to fear flying and not driving.
This is because fear is a function of familiarity. The first time we drove we probably felt to some degree the same fear we felt when we first flew. Over time that fear is diminished with familiarity of experience. Most of us don’t fly anywhere near as often as we get into a car and so we fear flying and flying is still an adventure.
Once MGO life becomes the norm then the adventure will subside just like getting in a car is no longer an adventure for you today.
A word of caution: an unmanaged MGO provides no benefit over they life you live today. An unmanaged MGO is no better off than a world without MGOs.
One of the fundamental principles of Irreni Society is to manage hierarchy. An unmanaged MGO will most likely repeat the same tribal failures throughout history: the rich rule the poor via hierarchy.
So the adventure is first to establish an unmanaged MGO and then as soon as possible join Irreni Society.
Then the adventure of growing Irreni Society so as to include all of humanity continues.