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Our initial spokesperson is Mr John Sydney Denton Miles, aged 82. He is of pure-English working-class descent, and had some service and life-experience among British, French, Russian, Egyptian, Italian, American, Nepalese, Malayan, Chinese, African, Australian and New Zealand peoples.

He has a longstanding commitment to the founding and building of sustainworthy lifesupportive environments and civilisations.

This includes the establishment of worldwide Individual Human Development within a greater Cooperative Human Development containing both a new index for personal-efficiency (in contrast with both workplace-efficiency and the UNDP Aggregate human development index) and a steadily growing Participative Democracy, in contrast to the traditional Directive Democracy which appears stuck in One/Two/Three-Party State obsolescent 'tradition'.

John is English, lives singly in a Housing Association village, where he gives daily respite and care to a more elderly single neighbour, and saves a little money by not smoking, not gambling, not drinking alcohol, not driving a car any more, and not beholden to ephemeral relationshipping.

Helping the lowest or disadvantaged peoples, of the World's human-development pyramid, to advance out of Downwards-Directive Two-Party State-ism (malfeasantly calling itself Democracy) and into truly Participative All-Needs Democracy, Upwards-before-downwards, is his main vocation.

In parallel with that evidently long-term preparatory task he prompts economically and politically super-powered high-up people to reciprocally advance, out of exploitative downwards-directivism, into cooperative upwards-participativism. This will be the World's first Cooperatively Participative, All-Needs of Every Citizen, Democracy.

In this John has already developed several overarching and underpinning models for Sustainworthy Living and Lifesupportive Budgeting, and intends to share these on this website, and through a small book or pamphlet Only One Lifestyle currently being published; and through such other channels as Twitter, UTube, Wikipedia and so forth.

He invites participants in www.lifefresh.co.uk in www.peepsovparts.infoor in www.life75job25.com to co-develop (preferably with him but this is not an essential) a new Individual Human Development Index and rationale, in contrast to the UN Agregate National Human Development Index.

For this, the essential multi- and two-way communication on-site will become possible.

John's snailmail address is 39B Miles Mitchell Avenue, Plymouth, PL6 5LY, England, U.K. email johnmiles1@talktalk.net.

John plays the piano as a member a club, very well they say; but he says he places much higher value upon classical-organ playing, at which he admits alas! he remains in effect at beginner level among the numerous accomplished organists in the Plymouth & District Organists Association.

He grows spring onions and garlic-greens in his kitchen window-box; and follows his own advice to have always at hand three (darkened) bottles of unadulterated drinking water.

John says "You could add to all that I am finding this website's task, of 'making our civilisation sustain-worthy', a multifold activity that alleviates frustration, and is progressively nurturing and integrating to one's life".

John goes on, deeper:

"Many authors have provided excellent mind-food to the world, and we can feel well-blessed to be able to

include

quotes from them, descriptive notes, and a place in our bibliography.

"Such education leaders as Prof Guy Hendricks & Jim Fadiman (school of transpersonal-psychology in California) were aspiring to

bolster

friendly-competition, nurturance and integration when they published their work on individual and

group Centering microskills and on the five categories of Human management, needs Identification and problem solving.

"Jim Fadiman pictured five distinct intentions of people-management, the worst first:

"1. Exploitative: which is enslaving, suppressing, even the killing-off of people not 'fitting in';

2. Manipulative: whilst less severe than exploitation manipulation of others is seriously depriving them ofsome important lifesupport,

and is

doing-down workers and/or the general

-public;

3. Competitive: the most wide-ranging of these five others-management categories, but sub-divisible into three

(a) life-threatening competition/conflict: such as in the Armed Forces; or in 'peace-time' causing poor people to live in unsafe or

hazardous places;

(b) lifesupports-destroying competition/conflict: such as when a Government stops a welfare-income, or a Utility company 'blacks'

a good customer's credit-rating simply over a

mistake in the legislation or in the billing/payment system;

(c) co-constructive or friendly competition: as in games of basketball, tennis, and tiddleywinks [ NB please consider that certain

friendly games may in fact be utter time-wasters

or procrastinations/real-need-avoidances, and should then be seen as being more destructive to one or all of its participants

than

constructive];

4. Nurturing: one or two players respectively are nurtured by a game of Freecell or Chess; a study group backed by

programmed-learning

material and activities is being nurtured;

and an actively participant membership of a charity such as Oxfam or Amnesty or Greenpeace is co-nurturing.

[ "The quality of Mercy is not Strained ... it blesses he who gives and he who takes,," (Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice) ];

being the kitchen-gardener, or simply being in a mutual-companionship relationship, is nurturing.;

5. Integrative;. actively protecting the Peace and the necessary common Lifesupports; supporting fair legislation and non-loopholey

implementation-regulation; or simply helping an

impaired person to cross a busy street safely."

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