Transition Roadmap

A multi-generational strategic framework for moving from extractive economic systems to cooperative, post-currency civilization — grounded in historical transition dynamics, network theory, and practical implementation evidence.

What this framework establishes

• Civilizational transitions are phased processes, not single events — typically spanning decades, with identifiable stages from emergence through dominant-attractor competition
• The critical threshold is not majority adoption but the creation of a resilient distributed substrate — networks, trust, tools, and infrastructure that survive hostile conditions
• AI represents the decisive wildcard — simultaneously enabling oligarchic consolidation and distributed capability growth under the most likely mixed-trajectory scenario
• Transition spreads through visible, working examples that improve people's lives, not through ideology or mass persuasion
• Practical entry points exist now — community gardens, time banks, mutual aid, shared resource libraries, and transition nodes that can begin with as few as five people
• The immediate goal is not to win but to become impossible to erase

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How this connects to the other research

The Oligarchic Capture analysis establishes why transition is necessary — the structural dynamics that make the current system self-reinforcing. TheAttractor Theory shows that egalitarian systems are stable equilibria, not just theoretical possibilities. The Post-Currency Foundations define what the target system looks like. This roadmap addresses how — the path from where we are to where we need to be.