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The people who will save the world aren’t the current leaders — not business leaders, not political leaders, not institutional leaders. WE are the people who will save the world because we are the ones who care.
We live in a world that is failing.
That world is failing because it has embraced terrible ideas. The ideas that our world has embraced are not only cruel. They are also false. They are lies. We live in a world of lies and that is why we cannot cope with the real crises that have emerged and continue to grow.
We ourselves and our toxic ideas are the cause of the calamities we see.
Our leaders and institutions will not save us, cannot save us, because they are born of and beholden to these toxic ideas. They are not bad people at the core. They are, in fact, people just like ourselves. But their hearts have been hardened and their eyes blinded by ideologies and ideas that prevent them from truly comprehending the horrors they have brought about.
We must not hate them. But we must stop them, overrule them, and set them aside where they can no longer do damage. We must take control and fix what’s broken, and especially kill the ideas that brought us to this terrible state.
Nobody is born greedy and selfish and bigoted. Humans are not inherently cogs in an economic…
