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Humanize Yourself. Humanize Everyone. That’s the Plan. That’s How Fear Is Transformed Into Joy.
Big and little movements, operating simultaneously, are the key to saving the world.
When we stop letting money make the world go ‘round and insist that the defining feature of our species becomes love — well, then we can wake up each day and smile to ourselves, and at each other.
We will be able to say, proudly, we did it! We woke up to the better choices available to us. We decided to make the most of the human condition.
Make no mistake: we can do this. Changing the world for the better, living together in peace and friendship isn’t a fantasy. Continuing along our present course — that’s the fantasy. The present course isn’t viable and we all know it. All of us.
We are predicting doom, 50 shades of doom. Whether it’s climate collapse (a genuine and urgent crisis), or some Qanon nonsense, people everywhere feel that we are on the edge, and about to fall off. The feeling is understandable and (almost) rational.
But the doom is avoidable. The doom isn’t natural — it’s man-made foolishness. We’ve chosen this. Or more accurately, we let others choose this for us. We didn’t invent this nonsense; we were born into a world with some fools peddling nonsense and we simply picked badly from…
