Project START BEFORE END stands for a revolutionary synthesis of Ancient Wisdom and Future Technology. Based in the heart of Gozo, we are building a 'Planetary Family' where no one is left behind. We believe that while humanity reaches for the stars, we must remain rooted in deep human ethics, neighborly support, and ecological harmony. Our mission is to bridge the gap between systemic isolation and future possibilities. By connecting the wisdom of our elders, the skills of professionals, and the energy of our youth, we aim to solve the paradox of modern loneliness. 

The future is ethical, or it is not at all. 

 START BEFORE END – THE GREAT AWAKENING

On Lost Simplicity

We have forgotten how good a simple life is. And how strikingly simple that good life can be. In a frantic, obsessive race for money—of which we never have enough—we have become slaves to digits on screens. Our current world is a gargantuan training machine; it lures us daily, through the whispers and screams of advertisements, telling us that without the latest luxury, we are worthless. We are told that our dignity is measured by the brand of our car, and our success by the square footage of an apartment in which we have no time to reside because we are too busy working to pay for it. It is a vicious circle in which we lose our souls before we even have a chance to know them.

To this, we add the governmental hydras—multi-headed monsters of bureaucracy and power, eternally insatiable, forever seeking new ways to snatch a portion of the fruits of our lives. They create taxes on sunshine, on rain, on the warmth of the domestic hearth, while simultaneously engineering artificial conflicts where, in the end, it is always the same ordinary person who suffers. The wars they wage are not our wars, yet it is we who pay for them with blood and inflation.

Evolution of Tools, Regression of Spirit

Although the Phoenicians invented money thousands of years ago, it does not mean this idea must accompany us until the end of existence. Money is merely a conventional form of compensation, a prosthesis for the value of something real, which over time has become more important than reality itself. Look at history: no one uses cuneiform script to transmit knowledge today. No one tries to surf the internet or create advanced 3D graphics on an old NES console. We no longer need shoes carved from wood that wound our feet, nor toxic asbestos on our roofs that kills with a slow breath.

If we can abandon old technologies, why can’t we abandon old, toxic social structures? Humanity must wake up and move away from money as the foundation of existence, replacing it with something nobler—a system based on values, on contribution to the lives of others, on pure ethics. Even the wealthiest, those who have touched the peak of this financial mountain, often look down with loathing. They see how this pursuit turns humans into beasts. It is from greed that drugs destroying young lives are born, along with pornography stripping away intimacy, theft, extortion, and systemic oppression. All of this can vanish. It is enough to understand how shallow, false, and fleeting these lusts are. They are like saltwater—the more you drink, the thirstier you become.

The idea of Time Banks was a beautiful flash of normalcy—the currency there was presence, help, a smile, a real skill. It was an attempt to return to humanity. Today, instead, we build bunkers. But let’s face the truth: no one will be safe in a concrete hole from nuclear annihilation. Such a life, in eternal fear underground, is more loathsome and humiliating than a swift death in atomic fire. We cannot stockpile supplies for a hundred years for everyone who deserves it. Yet, the machinery of trade grinds on—retail chain owners rub their hands together, selling us fear in cans and survivalist gear, profiting from our uncertainty about tomorrow.

Post-apocalyptic literature and games are not just entertainment—they are a painful mirror. They show us a world without good, without ethics, a world set on pure, animalistic egoism. And what do we see there? That egoism always has an end. That in the final reckoning, the egoist always loses because there is no one to lend a hand when they fall. The common good, that "greater good," or simply ordinary human kindness—this is the only lifeline for our civilization.

The Paradox of Power and the Smallness of Rulers

It is tragic: an ordinary father must pay taxes for the obligation of heating his home so his children do not freeze, while many a president or dictator launches thousands of rockets into the sky, each costing as much as building a school. They do this because, like immature children, they want something the neighbor has. They want to show strength, take photos in the glow of explosions, receive congratulations from other puppets of power, and then, bored with one toy, they seek the next victim.

We see terrorists, blinded by a lying religious promise, who can destroy in a second the fruits of years of effort by thousands of good people. We see the petty thief who robs a grandmother of her modest savings because no one ever showed him a better path, no one reached out to him when he was still a child. He believes those stolen euros will give him peace. They won’t. They will only give him another night of fear.

A Cosmic Home and the Potential for Good

We forget that Earth is our only home. On a cosmic scale, we are a tiny dot. If we do not learn to live with dignity here, rejecting evil, we will not build any safe haven among the stars. Earth is like our family home—if we defile it with hatred, we will take that filth with us everywhere. We will not build a better world on Mars if we do not fix the one in our hearts.

Our egoistic desires are so small against the majesty of the universe. Only ethical development makes sense. Think of the potential: who would Superman be if he used his strength for murder? And who might Hitler have been if the world had appreciated his painting, if he had met someone who drew the good out of him instead of feeding his frustrations? We constantly complain about a lack of time, yet time outside of Earth does not exist in our human understanding. Stars do not count the millions of years of their formation. Time only has meaning for us, and because there are billions of us, that time—if we unite—is infinite.

We stand on the threshold of changes that were unthinkable even 50 years ago. Heart transplants, space flight, artificial intelligence—what was science fiction is now the backdrop of our daily lives. But this technology is a double-edged sword. The same stone that the first primitive human used to crack coconuts to feed the tribe was also used to crack a kinsman's head. Today, we have more powerful "stones."

It is absurd that in the age of AI, people are still starving. How many brilliant scientists, artists, and inventors never discovered their talent because they had to worry about a piece of bread their whole lives? We live on a planet powered by a gigantic battery—the Sun. Energy is in abundance, yet we still fight for resources that destroy our atmosphere. Why? Because it is profitable for a few people at the top. This is not a technical problem; it is a problem of the "idiocy" of structures that believe division and conflict are the only way.

Start Before End – Our Mission

I know that people can unite. I know that borders will eventually disappear—if not through our wisdom, then through our shared tragedy. But we choose wisdom. I know that lies and manipulation have an expiration date. Religion, skin color, or bank balance will stop dividing us when we understand that under the skin, we all feel the same pain and the same hope.

John Paul II, Bob Marley, and thousands of silent heroes called for peace. Today, thanks to technology, your voice can reach the end of the world in the blink of an eye. If each of us dares to make one gesture of goodness, there will be no space left for evil. Evil always loses because it is a parasite. Good does not need evil.

Let us wake up on Gozo, let us wake up in Europe, let us wake up across the whole world.

• We must Start Creating Before time reaches its End.

• We must Start Building Before possibilities come to an End.

• We must Start Living Before meaning and love meet their End.

• We must Start Caring Before the Earth itself finds its End in the cosmic void.

• We must Start Rising Before today is over, so that tomorrow is not an End, but a new beginning.

We are called Start Before End. And we will not rest until goodness becomes the standard, not the exception.

 AI & EdTech, Good Life, Social Synergy, Ethical Wisdom.