Depart refers to the delib­er­ate act of leav­ing behind pat­terns, behav­iors, and sys­tems that no longer serve our species.

This sec­tion is inspired by the arche­typ­al myth of the hero’s jour­ney. In our case, human­i­ty is the hero of the sto­ry, depart­ing from an envi­ron­ment pol­lut­ed by injus­tice and mis­guid­ed power.

In our telling, human­i­ty must learn to: be account­able for past trans­gres­sions, be cog­nizant of mak­ing sus­tain­able choic­es, and be respect­ful of an inter­re­lat­ed nature in order to restore our glob­al home as a healthy place to live.

The sub­sec­tions that fol­low speak to dif­fer­ent kinds of depar­tures. Depar­tures from: con­ven­tion­al approach­es to inno­va­tion, anti­quat­ed notions of a healthy econ­o­my, a restric­tive edu­ca­tion­al sys­tem, a failed health­care indus­try, and a poor­­ly-con­struc­t­ed notion of how to treat our environment.

We believe ful­fill­ment of the hero’s quest will occur when we right­ful­ly repair the rela­tion­ships that have led to the slow destruc­tion of our­selves and the plan­et. In tak­ing this course of action, we will cre­ate sup­port­ive con­di­tions for the next gen­er­a­tion to rebuild civilization.