First Task

If I were ruler of the world, first, I would change the calendar system much of the world is using.

Not only does our current calendar disconnect and disorient us from the natural world, It just doesn't make much sense by itself.

I would ask the people to include in their consciousness, calculations based on the moon. Each month would be determined by a new moon so there would be 13 instead of 12. Unless someone could give me a good reason why January 1^st makes sense as the 'new year' I would change it. I'm not sure exactly which makes more logical sense as a new year though. Should it be the day after the winter solstice when the light starts getting longer OR the first moon in our current March/April when things start to bloom? I think these things would need to be determined regionally as the same things don't make sense everywhere.

Is that what Pagans used to do? Probably. Then they were conquered by people who wanted to cut out their dependence on nature, under which they had no control, and try to control their own destiny. (?)

So we have advanced a lot under this calendar in some ways. Scientific, technological, efficient. . .sometimes machine-like ways.

We have digressed a lot under this calendar in some ways. We completely disregard and have tried to sever our ties to the natural world. We've also forgotten about all of the things it offers us already. (Though there are still some people who follow the moon cycles and are more connected to the happenings in nature) We no longer understand collectively the interconnections of migration cycles, weather patterns and yields. We can't name species of trees or plants and don't know their use except to look pretty and give us oxygen.

My logic suggests that the creators of the Gregorian calendar had big plans in mind when they created it. I believe they were aiming at globalization even then. Having regionally defined calendars would make for awfully complicated communication and organization when you started trading with the larger world, I would imagine.

For example, if Canada and Australia were trying to trade and had specific orders due in the new year (which was universally the first moon of the winter solstice), the order would either be 6 months earlier or 6 months late. That wouldn't due at all (hahaha). So they probably needed to make a calendar that went against all logic so as to have some kind of standardization.

But that doesn't mean we should forget completely the calendar that makes sense based on the natural world. Would it kill us to be conscious of two calendars??? I highly doubt it. I think it could be explained very easily and students would accept it completely if you said “We have this calendar based on the moon with these special dates because they make more sense based on our own region with respect to harvests and natural cycles. Then we have this other calendar based on the sun that people around the world can follow to be on the same time. It has its own special dates that we can celebrate with people from around the world.”

I really don't think it would be very complicated at all and would give more ability to make sense of and connect to nature.

Alright, so now that the first order of business is under way, what's next?