Those with courage and imagination will always enjoy a good rethink. Those who are curious will always go on exploring. Those who value freedom will always find ways to (re)gain it.
© Charlie Alice Raya, notes for book 4, building
easy town projects
intro
This page is still in an early stage.
The easy town story is like the initial seed for all easy town ideas and projects. And like a universe it is constantly expanding.
The projects include
- project businesses
- towns & cities with a purpose
- coexisting with nature
- stories & narratives as tools
- rethinking
- sex
On this page, you can get an overview of all project ideas, an indication of what I offer with regard to the various ideas and links for a more in depth exploration of the ideas.
We will continue to bring people and ideas together from around the world: not to plunder the planet, not to screw up people, not to dominate, not to exploit — but to rethink, to value, to create.
book 3/3, shaping, where do we go from here & decisions
project businesses
intro
By now, there are ideas for over seventy businesses and additional business networks which all aim at empowering everyone involved and at restoring the planet.
offers
I am happy to introduce the following businesses and business models.
- The Hub (a new internet)
- dot. (an international clothing company and a new business model)
- book stations
- ripples publishing
I’m also happy to introduce several and demonstrate how they are all interconnected and create balances instead of competing.
For all business ideas I am looking for teams.
‘The human is a creative creature. Take that away, and you take away an essential part of being human.’
book 1, beginning, week 3
‘So we only succeed on this planet because there are enough rogue people who enjoy exploiting their fellow humans? Is that what you’re saying? Cheers to all the bastards?’
book 2/1, travelling, Australia
towns & cities
intro
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offers
- talks about town ideas
- taking a look at existing towns and adding my thoughts & ideas
‘The first Easy Town will always be the mother of all Easy Towns. And it will be in memory of your friend Easy, and in defiance of the treatment he received as a neurological patient. Easy Town will lead the way to do better for all the Easy’s and their relatives on this planet. The mother of all Easy Towns will provide the basis to revolutionise hospitals, to nourish scientific research, to find a sustainable business mix and optimal business sizes, to build simulations that can help every place on this planet, to bridge demographic and class divides, to become part of the ecosystem and not its destructor, and so much more. And on top of that, Easy Town will be one of the most beautiful and thoughtful places on this planet. A place where a human can be whatever they want to be, and where a broken soul can find healing. A place where we’ll never stop to explore what is good for us, where we’ll unlearn everything that makes us sick, where we’ll untangle what needs untangling, tear down whichever barrier needs tearing down, and where we’ll always be open to take yet another step towards freedom. In the mother of Easy Towns, we’ll learn to be free and healthy and to enjoy life. In the town of music, we’ll feel the rhythm of the universe and learn to dance.’
© Charlie Alice Raya, book 2/2, travelling, Romania
coexisting with nature
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‘For everyone who doesn’t know me, yet, I am Megan Rhys, head of the Agriculture Team. It seems to me that I am one of the few people who grew up on a farm, and who actually knows something about coexisting with nature. Did you enjoy fantasising about building a beautiful green world where everything is all right?’ Megan shook her head in anger. ‘I should have had this talk with you months ago. Nature isn’t something that cares about you or your wishes. It just is. And when nature decides to lash the land with gusts of winds that knock you to the ground, then you run, you hide, you stay out of nature’s way, out of nature’s forces. We humans have become so bleeding superior that we think nothing can harm us. We have lost every sense of how fragile we are, and that yes, bad things happen to us, not just to others. Building, creating with nature in mind also means to know who is the stronger. It means to listen to the wind, to the creaking of the trees. It means to grasp what is happening, and where to find cover. Because unlike our fantasies, we are terribly vulnerable, and nature doesn’t spare us. We have to take care of our safety ourselves.’
book 4/1, campaigns & getting started, prelude
rethink
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‘The world is too fragile to question everything. Right now the world needs certainty and strong leadership, not the tinkering of idealists.’
The idealist stung. Tom had never used it on her and she retorted: ‘How am I an idealist? How is building an experiment idealistic? It’s the bloody opposite! It’s how you find out whether or not an idea works. And that small scale so that not too many people are affected.’
book 3/3, where do we go from here & decisions
‘Stupidity is very common in clever people. And that’s a good thing — if they know about it. Keeps them from becoming really stupid.’
book 3, shaping
stories & narrative
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‘With every narrative, we can ask: What is this narrative’s record? Does this narrative serve us? Is there a more beneficial narrative?’
The end of all wars, planet one, the root of wars
sex
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Jack cocked his head and countered playfully: ‘I agree. Sex is a private matter. But since this private matter has led to abuse and chronic unhappiness, we need to talk about it. Once sex is a happy undertaking again, devoid of abuse and dissatisfaction, it can all go back to being private.’
book 2/2, travelling, Otaon
‘Everyone wants to be loved by everyone, with no intention or inclination of loving everyone back.’
book 2/1, travelling, Australia