A physically private, but digitally public lab, dedicated to
curing (not just treating, as the medical/pharmaceutical establishment is only
interested in, because that’s where the money is, repeat business), curing all
the planet and Her people’s biggest problems, from aids to famine, cancer to
deforestation. The Lab will be furnished with all the best equipment necessary to work the problems and populated by the world’s best brightest young minds for the job in every field necessary. (funding will be fully covered, to be explained at the end) There will be a website that shows every bit of what goes on there, all their progress but more importantly, all of their hold-ups, and said hold-ups will be outlined both in exact technical terms for others in the field around the world, as well as in layman’s terms for
enthusiastic creative thinkers. This will work because not only will people, all people, be welcome to submit their ideas, but encouraged to. People see and think through filters of what they’re passionate about; a painter sees the world in terms of brush-strokes and hues, a musician thinks in harmonics and intervals…
Say the Lab is working on aids, and they hit a snag…they state the problem in a way one biochemist would explain it to another, but also something like, “ok, we’ve developed a vaccine that kills the virus 100% of the time but it also seems to be eating holes in the cellular membrane…” Now there’s some dear, sweet ol’ girl, lets call her Mabel, who lives in Nowhere Kentucky, who’s been darning her husband’s socks and fixing the knees of his jeans for 50 years. Mabel hears “holes” she thinks “patches,” so she writes in, “couldn’t you just put some something in the vaccine that patches the holes as they form?” To a biochemist who knows about such things the very idea is silly, but, it makes him think about the problem from a new angle, in a new light, approaching it from a direction no one had previously. The Universe is all about perspectives, and if you want to understand something as fully as possible you look at it from as many different points of view as you can find, in as many ways as are available, the more imagination the better. And, if you want to find a solution to a problem, you consider the problem from every imaginable angle, and every possibility… Not bad right? Now to ensure it always has ample funding…
A sister website, ‘party_with_the_stars_for_cures.com’ An annual celebrity party (I know getting the first few to commit will be the hurdle), and anyone willing to participate will have a picture on the site, with a little caption about why they’re notable: movies, sports, t.v., whatever. Then, for $5, or even $2 would be enough, people will be allowed to enter into a draw to win a first class trip to the party of a lifetime, to have a pint with their
favourite artists. This would work so well there would be leftover funds after the Lab’s primary expenses are covered, so the surplus would go into holding, and when a cure is found, the extra will be used to produce that cure en mass and distribute it to all in need, free of charge.
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