The World I Want

I want to join a movement of world-wide universal compassion for all beings. I want to live in a world where people travel by bicycle and grow their own food and who realize, as Epicurus did, that life should be simple, wholesome, nutritional and supportive in all ways, physical, emotional and spiritual. I want to see the end of the corporate hegemony which sucks the life out of our local communities and replaces it with the robotic corporate model of the big box monoliths and the conformist consumer citizen automaton.

I believe in the model of the credit union, the labor union, and the power of social capitalism and entrepreneurship. I believe in leveraging the power of the collective as against the "empire" mentality of our so called "leaders". I believe that "free enterprise" and "free trade" must be lead by free humans in a social-political model of equality where people can move as freely as commodities across barriers now marked by barbed wire, death, and despair. I believe in caring for my brothers and sisters and for our mother earth and all her children whether man or beast.

I seek internally to beat my own psychic swords to plowshares and my arrows of indignant intolerance and anger into pruning hooks as I am aware that nothing in this world can effectively change until I change the demons from within. I desire the aid and nurture of my fellow beings to help me to overcome the unwholesome aspects of myself.

I believe in a world free for all expression; a world free for all the spectra of diversity; diversity of race, religion, non-religion, opinion, ideas, beliefs, culture, sexual/gender identity. I pray for a world where "different" is exciting, not threatening; where something new is an eye and heart opening adventure; where change is welcome not feared; Where hate is never defeated by hate but overcome only by love; where violence is never defeated by violence but overcome only by peace.