The Founding Circle · the manifesto
A new culture, built by the people who want to live in it
A year on the road, thirty-nine countries and states, more than a hundred scientists and doctors — and this is what we came home with. We already know how to live twenty or thirty healthy years longer, and that part is a question of implementation.
The question is no longer whether it can be done.
It is whether we do it.
Those years come from the science, from the medical system, from prevention caught early, and from the choices each of us makes on an ordinary Tuesday. Almost all of it is already known. Almost none of it has arrived where people actually live. That part — getting it to arrive — is implementation, and it is on governments, on institutions, and on each of us.
And the knowing is still the hard part. There is far more to learn, the basic science is nowhere near finished, and the next twenty, thirty, fifty, a hundred years have to be discovered before anybody can implement them. That work is carried by the scientists. Our job is to stand behind them while they do it.
