NEO Magazine Issue 1 | Page 52

ubuntu michael tellinger a blueprint for human prosperity All my life I have been appalled by the human suffering and misery on our beautiful planet. Suffering that seems to continue as if there were no solution to the plight of humanity. And yet, in our hearts most of us know that there are solutions to our problems, and that these solutions are really simple. But our so-called leaders do not provide solutions. Instead, they sow more confusion and misery. The philosophy of Contributionism as a new social structure was born in 2005. It was a consequence of my extensive research into the origins of humankind and the deeply convoluted path of deception that has lead us to this point as the human race. After several years of testing the basic ideas against the many sectors of our current system, I realised many ancient cultures had similar systems by which their communities were guided. Unfortunately much of this knowledge has been suppressed or lost through the colonisation of the world by the so-called explorers who invaded the land of native peoples stole the land from indigenous people everywhere. Some native people, like the Cherokee, have a saying that “if it’s not good for everyone, it’s no good at all.” In Africa, we call it UBUNTU. But this philosophy was shared by hundreds if not thousands of ancient cultures all over the world. Although they may have called it by different names, it all seems to be aligned to the principles of UBUNTU. These united communities of the past have been maliciously destroyed by capitalism, industrialisation, modernisation and ultimately the absolute control by a handful of powerful and greedy individuals who have ruled the world for a long time and who want to continue ruling it at all cost. In 2005, I had what could be described as an ‘awakening experience’. Like millions of people around the world I began to realise that there had to be something more to this life than the strife and misery that so many people experience on a daily basis. I was determined to find a solution and I was not going to accept any of the usual feeble answers from a society that has slipped into complacency and accepted its fate as a slave race in blissful ignorance. It became clear to me that humanity had become a deeply divided species on so many levels. In this divided struggle for survival and our relent-