How to Build Long-Term Cultural Change?

Firstly, how not to build long-term cultural change. Do not use violence. A violent response to aggressing is directly opposed to peace, even if it is successful in achieving freedom.

Live and Let Live promotes a new paradigm using age-old concepts. This paradigm is reflected in the mandatory Legal Principle and the voluntary Moral Principle.

We cannot achieve real change in society merely by voting. Nobody voted into existence the Enlightenment, the American Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, or the end of slavery… Many such landmark changes only occur when enough people change how they think. — Marc J. Victor

A decentralized network of individuals voluntarily adopting the principles of the Live and Let Live Movement gradually supersedes the relevance of aggressive models.

We may only need one third of the population for the tipping point — see Critical Mass.

To help reach this tipping point, the Live and Let Live Movement follows a three-pillared strategy of Awareness, Belonging and Change.

A key feature of Live and Let Live’s strategy is reducing the incentives for aggressing in political institutions. This is pursued using the ground-up community efforts alongside top-down political reform.

Read more in the Live and Let Live white paper.