The World We Can Have

Seeing that we are all part of each other - all the same in some basic sense - would allow a level of cooperation yet be seen on this Earth. We don't need to individually own things; we can share everything. What a relief it would be not to have to struggle to acquire and then protect your possessions. And how much more efficient when, for instance, you don't have to own a hammer yourself, but instead can just get one from some commonly held storing place to which you return it to after you're finished with it. Just as at a public library books, movies, and even works of art can be borrowed for free, societies based on cooperation rather than competition function much better.

A world in which people were given a basic minimum income would be much more productive. People would be free to do the type of work they wanted, and so would do a better job of it. We were not created to be machines repetitively doing the same thing all the time at the same place.

We're so used to saying "I can't". We've allowed ourselves to be defined by what someone told us we were. When I was a kid, I had a dancing sort of way of moving, and my brothers made fun of it, so I stopped. A grade school teacher told me I wasn't creative so I never tried to draw again. WE ARE NOT WHAT WE ARE CALLED! Each of us is born for a reason, a good one. Don't try to be normal; allow yourself to be YOU. Each human is absolutely unique and absolutely sacred.

There IS such a thing as Heaven, and there IS the possibility of Heaven on Earth. Don't call me unrealistic. I can tell you about enough terrible things going on right now as to make you ill. I am more aware of both the bad and the good things going on in the world than most. Ocean acidification, billions in economic slavery, global warming, forest fires burning, our air being destroyed, our water, our fellow Earthlings, how little time we all have to help bring in a new age of peace, how more and more people are dying as more parts of the planet become hostile to life for us multi-cellular plants and animals. I could go on.

But I also know of thousands of scientists and millions of activists figuring ways to slow down the ecosystem collapse going on now. Daily, new inventions and ideas come in. Creditable scientists are thinking about how we might re-freeze the Arctic to slow down the climate change, for instance.

Desiderata
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"Here's to all the idealists who could make a Heaven on Earth, and here's to all the 'realists' who are making it the Hell that it is."
~Anonymous