Our foundation
Charter of Values
This is not a rulebook handed down from above: it is the set of behaviours we keep to, by choice, because without them a community does not hold together.
GOODSENSE: To take an action that results in improving the survival (way of life, abundance) of the greatest possible number of people, plants and animals, and of the environment in general, without forgetting the spiritual side of the human being.
The two golden rules
They come from far away, and from different cultures. They say the same thing from two sides.
Seek not to do to others what we would not want others to do to us.
Middle Kingdom of Egypt, 2040–1650 BC
Seek to treat others as we would want others to treat us.
Mencius, 372–289 BC
What a person of good sense is like
You don't have to be perfect. You have to have a direction.
It is someone who takes far more actions of good sense than actions without it. They don't keep count, but if they did, that is how the balance would read.
They think less and observe more. They are curious. They can say “I was wrong” without feeling diminished. They think of others before themselves. And when they criticise, they bring a proposal too, because criticism without a proposal is only noise.
What it means in practice
Concrete examples of what being in the Club involves.
- Keeping your own self-centredness in check.
- Finding solutions and behaviours that unite us as a group.
- Steering clear of the subjects that divide — vaccination, gender, religion, political propaganda — and working out together solutions able to bring different points of view closer.
- Not using the Club for personal gain, but proposing solutions that benefit everyone, always asking permission first.
- Communicating well, balancing listening and speaking.
- Being active in the group in order to reach the group's purpose.
- Practising fair exchange in every activity: giving, and receiving something suitable in return.
- Trying to live in truth and ethics, doing nothing illegal.
- Being active in life, trustworthy, meeting your commitments, respecting others.
- Observing carefully in order to learn useful things and put them into practice: becoming more and more competent in life.
- Not running away from problems or from difficult conversations, but facing them with resolve and courage.
- Communicating and behaving in a way that makes it easy for others to accept what we are saying.
- Not following an ideology, but observing and deciding case by case.
- Observing the present and informing yourself, rather than thinking and acting out of preconceptions.
- Telling the true from the false: looking for the sources, checking them, finding out the truth.
- Being moved by a sense of duty or by personal conviction.
Love your neighbour as yourself, even if they believe things different from yours, even if they make mistakes they cannot see… perhaps love is the secret of evolution.
Does this sound like you?
Then you are already one of us. All that's missing is your request.