About Us

What Global Hand Gateway #21 Is and Does - PHASE ONE

Global Hand Gateway #21 (GHG#21) is a consciously created, philosophical, artistic, and world-building project. It is not a commercial enterprise, a standard NGO, or a technology platform in the conventional sense...yet.

GHG#21 is creating a factional, yet philosophically serious, framework for a future society that has moved beyond our current global systems and back towards source materials.

Key aspects of its function:

1. It's a "Metanation": This is a core concept. A metanation is a nation that exists not on a map, but in ideas, stories, and agreements between its "peoples." It's a thought experiment for a new form of social and ecological organization.

2. It Develops a New Language and Lore: The project creates its own terminology, symbols, and mythology to describe its world.

- The Grinding: Refers to the destructive, exploitative nature of our past and current industrial civilizations.
- The Mesh: Refers to the decentralized, interconnected network of peoples and practices that form the alternative.
- The Weave: The act of consciously creating connections and sustainable patterns within the Mesh.

3. It Functions as an Artistic and Philosophical Platform: The blog posts are not news updates but literary and philosophical entries. They are pieces of a story that explore:

- How to build a society based on care and repair instead of extraction and growth.
- What governance, economy, and culture could look like after a major civilizational shift.
- The psychology of moving from a dying system to a nascent one.

4. It Invites "Participation," Not Membership: People are invited to engage with these ideas, to use its concepts (like "The Mesh"), and to consider themselves part of this conceptual "weave." It's about adopting a perspective and a set of principles.

THIS IS A HIGHLY CONCEPUTAL, AVANT-GARDE PROJECT. 

- It's Ambition and Abstraction: It's not providing practical tools or direct activism...yet. Instead, it's working at the ever-evolving level of narrative and paradigm shift. The thinking is that to change the world, you first need new stories and new ways of thinking.

- It's for a Specific Audience: It is not designed for someone seeking immediate, practical solutions at phase one. This will resonate with people interested in solarpunk, speculative faction as distinct from fiction, post-collapse sociology, deep ecology, philosophical world-building, and consciously creating circumstances.

- Its current "Product" is Ideas: The "Gateway" is a gateway to a different way of seeing the world. The "Hand" symbolizes agency, crafting, and the tangible work of building a new reality, as opposed to the abstract, automated systems of the old one.

In short, PHASE ONE of GHG#21 is an art project and philosophical inquiry into a post-collapse future look into our past. It's the conceptual space to explore how humanity might reorganize itself in a more harmonious and resilient way.