“Let’s Make the Kidney Great Again?” – How Project 2025 Challenges Cooperation

 Imagine your kidney declaring independence.

“Let’s make the kidney great again!” it shouts. The heart, lungs, and brain look on, confused.

Sounds ridiculous? That’s the point.

This meme highlights the problem with Project 2025—a real political plan to reshape the U.S. government by concentrating power at the top and side lining cooperation. When one part of a system tries to dominate, the whole structure suffers. Just like in biology, democracy depends on parts working together—not fighting for control.

🔍 What’s Going On?

• Project 2025 pushes centralized executive power, limits agency independence, and reduces collaboration.
• It uses tactics like flooding media with conflicting information—confusing the public and weakening shared reality.
• And when institutions like courts are ignored, cooperation breaks down entirely.

⚠️ Why It Matters

Just like your body can’t survive with a rogue kidney, democracy can’t function when power refuses to cooperate.

When Project 2025 treats democracy like it’s a solo performance, it’s not just policy—it’s a threat to the balance that keeps everything working.

🔗 Read the Full Analysis:

👉 Trump and Project 2025: A Plan That Breaks Cooperation

Navigating Trump's Communication Strategy: Unpredictability as a Strategic Tool

 TL;DR: Donald Trump's erratic communication intentionally generates unpredictability to maintain attention and control. A possible underlying purpose might be to distract from significant systemic changes like staff dismissals, education defunding, and cuts in research.

Donald Trump’s communication style continues to profoundly impact global trust and coordination. His unpredictable behaviour destabilizes traditional frameworks of cooperation, complicating diplomatic and political decision-making processes.

An AI analysis using the TPOCo framework for cooperation.

Overview: Communication and Systemic Distraction

Trump's frequent and dramatic narrative shifts aren’t merely random; they might serve as distractions from other critical issues, such as extensive government staff dismissals, defunding of education, and significant cuts to research budgets. This tactic could divert public attention from impactful structural changes taking place behind the scenes.

Attention as a Strategic Asset

While appearing chaotic, Trump's communication method effectively secures constant media attention, granting him continuous political influence. This attention may function as a deliberate strategic energy source, ensuring he remains central in public discourse and policymaking.

Individual vs. Collective Stability

Trump’s method is notably individualistic, centralizing attention and decision-making power around himself. In contrast, cooperative systems thrive by sharing attention, influence, and resources evenly, promoting collective stability and long-term cohesion.

Implications for Global Stability

While beneficial to Trump personally, this strategy undermines collective trust and coordination, impacting global stability and the effectiveness of long-term cooperation. Such systemic distractions could weaken critical areas like education and research, further exacerbating vulnerabilities within cooperative structures.

Seeds for Thought:

• What are the long-term implications of using unpredictability as a strategic distraction on societal trust and systemic resilience?

• Can global systems effectively counteract these disruptions, or do they inherently threaten the foundation of cooperative frameworks?

• Is Trump's unpredictability a calculated approach aimed at structural distraction, or merely an intuitive tactic for personal dominance?

The Vegan Trolley Problem - not a problem for all sentient beings

Religious Vegetarianism, like the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Utilitarian Philosophy are the two pillars of the philosophy for Veganism. Utilitarianism is a version of consequentialism, which states that the consequences of any action are the only standard of right and wrong, good and bad, pleasure and pain etc. According to Peter Singer, sentient beings have to be included when acting.

The central argument in Peter Singer's book Animal Liberation, is an expansion of the utilitarian concept that "the greatest good of the greatest number" is the only measure of good or ethical behaviour. Singer believes that there is no reason not to apply this principle to other animals, arguing that the boundary between human and "animal" is completely arbitrary.

There is a lot of criticism about Utilitarianism. It is e.g. impossible to precisely predict the consequences and they are inherently unknowable. Another idea of this normative Philosophy is the duty of the decision maker (Agent) to put his own interest on side. The well-being of strangers counts just as much as that of friends, family or self. And this idea is contrary to other Philosophies. E.g. Ethical egoism is the normative ethical position that moral agents ought to act in their own self-interest. 

A thought experiment - the Trolley Problem

The trolley problem is a thought experiment as an ethical dilemma of whether to sacrifice one person to save a larger number of persons. 

In the following I will add another version to this thought experiment, by taking Peter Singer's words and take his idea to extent this thought experiment with sentient beings.

Goal of the project 'Principles of Cooperation'

If I only could describe a clear, colorful, brilliant, fantastic, beautiful picture of the goal for this project. And it would be also nice, if I could describe the objective according to the story - if you want to build a boat, don't tell your team to gather wood, tell them about the wonderful land, the team wants to reach with the boat you want to build.

I can't give you a close description of this wonderful land. The only thing I know right now is to learn more and understand more about the 'system' of cooperation.
Maybe to work towards a better world... in a team...

A little example of this wonderful land

Ben and Tracy are fighting about the last orange in your house. You want to settle this dispute.

How?

You could cut the orange equally in two halves.

But in this case you could make use of the knowledge about the search for a Win-Win situation. Better communication with questions regarding the goals of the opponents.

Ben, what do you want to do with the orange? I want the juice.

Tracy, what do you want to do with the orange? (Tracy is already smiling!) I need the peel!

The solution is clear and simple! Both are winning.

We don't have to go court about every conflict. Mediation is the solution. And even better, if more people know about the search for a Win-Win situation and better communiaction, we will have more peace in this world.

If there is the willingness for cooperation, we will find more Win-Win situations in all areas of living, even in marriages or partnerships.

On the path to the wonderful land

Simplicity is a principle on this path. Division of labor, mass production and money are making it often difficult to see the human ability for cooperation. But we are all on a journey as astronauts in a huge team - on a gigantic spaceship, called earth, towards unknown destinations. Six Degrees of Separation or the Small-world experiment shows only how close we are in reality.

Reality is another principle on this journey. Selfishness, greed, miser, conflicts, money, competition etc. are real and we can not ignore nor can we wish them away from this world. Maybe by understanding the principles of cooperation better we might be able to cope a little better with this part of reality. Here and now.

The resources (wood for the boat)

• Wikipedia - working on the article of cooperation (English and German) as user darwipli
• Open Mindmap "Cooperation" - network of knowledge. Its open and everybody can work on it. A user manual will follow soon.
• Blogging - this Blog here and a Blog in German
• Facebook
• Google+
• A homepage - coming soon
• Languages - now in German and English, more languages are very wellcome

Any other ideas for resources?

More ideas for this project:

• Gathering more examples from this wonderful land.