Attitude Analysis

Attitude Analysis

I keep hearing people say that things are only going to get worse. They say the only way for things to get better is for some horrible and vast tragedy to happen. It’s a variation of the old attitude that one must first hit bottom to get better. No doubt this attitude was born of experience, but is it the only experience that we remember?
Has nothing wonderful ever happened that made things change? Speaking from my experience, the answer is a definite “yes.” So I ask you, can’t the world change because something vast and wonderful happens? Why does it have to be something horrible? It doesn’t.
Attitude is what is represented by the way people project the future. Some say attitude has a strong influence on the future. When we consider something, we might want to bear this in mind. Your attitude is more within your power than you might think.
Something incredibly wonderful is coming. It is a going to make all that has ever happened seem to have been the only way it could have come about. The ability of humans to comprehend the magnitude of the beauty and joy of it is not quite up to the task at this time. Watch as that ability takes a giant step forward with the coming changes.
The long hard journey that we know as history was the path to the conditions we are going to achieve. From centuries of shortage and toil will come the accomplishment of plenty and fulfillment. A cursory examination of the changes brought about by the “industrial revolution” easily reveals the fact that things can change quickly with the right stuff.
I am writing an article that will at least get people thinking. It might do vastly more than that. It is just a simple idea, but it is one that has come at the right time. Stay tuned to this station for breaking ideas.

Where Are We Going

Where Are We Going?

Perhaps you have noticed that the people seem to have no defined goal for making life on Earth become what we would like it to be. Things have always seemed to happen more by chance than intent. Sure, we intend some, but what is the big picture for the future? There are probably those who have plans, but are they working to make things better for everyone or are they working to make things better for themselves? Are they inclusive of all people?

You can be sure that everyone cannot be rich in the systems of the world today. I will tell you that everyone can be even richer than the rich in a different system. In fact, the term “rich” as meaning having lots of money would vanish.

Let’s make a plan. Let’s design it to achieve a virtual Utopia. I think that there is no limit to how wonderful life can be, so “Utopia” becomes a word less desirable. Still, it works for the moment.

Who can ague with a plan that makes everyone happy? Some would! They will have to cope with their own feelings. I suppose a Pharaoh with divine privilege  might not like such plan. How could the Pharaoh feel superior then?

The plan seems simple to me. Making it happen less so. Imagine this site having the support of the majority of the world’s people, or some other site that has similar plans. That would sure help.

Plan Utopia!

Someone Beat Me To It

Someone Beat Me To It

It can be frustrating sometimes to discover that the things one has gleaned for oneself were already gleaned by others long ago, but only temporarily, for vindication and verification are more satisfying. See this from Sir Thomas More:

The economy of the Utopians is of particular interest. Their markets are nothing more than supply houses where everyone is free to go and take what he needs without payment. They are able to produce an abundance of food, so that they can export their surplus to foreign countries, which they exchange for gold and silver for the state treasury. There is no private property among the Utopians and they have no money. The wealth which they acquire by foreign trade is used only in time of war. The citizens are educated to despise jewels and precious metals and find their use by foreigners for ostentatious decoration to be ridiculous.

This form of economy is what I promote in The Power Of The People.org Everything should be available without the need for money.

My Honor

My Honor

People are signing up as subscribers to this site in ever growing numbers. Every day, nearly, at least one more person signs up. Lately there have been many every day. It continues to grow. The articles are being read by people in twenty-one different countries. I am so honored! Thank you for caring.

I have no idea how this site is being found. I have done nothing other than create the site, write the articles, and post it. The only thing I have ever done to promote it is to ask my Facebook friends to check it out.

I have a very large amount of material to post. I am rewriting some and debating the wisdom of posting some. I have to fight tendencies. I am trying to keep this a site of ideas about how to do things differently, better. It is too easy to slip into complaining about the way things are. I also try to keep it centered around things that we all have in common, as opposed to tackling the things we disagree about.

Uniting around our common needs and desires will make the world something that seems more a dream at this time. We can do it. The incentive is greater than suspected. People are likely to do things they want to do. I am stunned by the number of things people do that they do not want to do. There is abundant human energy for creating something that we all want. If I can accomplish my goal, the vision of how it can be will be made clear.

In that light, a quote from Orson Scott Card’s book Ender In Exile, comes to mind:”True believers in a cause often behaved in self-defeating ways because they expected other people to see the rightness of their cause if they just stated it clearly enough.” Reading that gave me pause. I certainly feel that a clearly stated cause if necessary, but I am not naive enough to expect others to see the rightness of it simply because it is stated clearly enough. Only those who have come to a place in their lives that makes it possible for them to see the “rightness” will see it. Fortunately, many are in such a place, as evinced by the large number of people who have subscribed to this site.

I tell you sincerely, I appreciate that you find what I have to say worth reading, even if nothing else.

Love Is The Answer

Love Is The Answer

I put a new article on this website. I hope it does what I hope it will do. Try this little part of it:

So, try to love everyone. Try to find the answer in love. You can do it. I know you can. You may need to develop a higher level of love, a stronger love, a better love, whatever relative word you want. But you can start by simply trying. I think an earnest desire is really all that is required. Just evaluate the love that you feel and select what you think is the strongest and best love that you know, and then try to feel that way for everyone. When you find something preventing it, find a way to go ahead through, around, under, or over it. Overcome all obstacles. Realize that everyone lives in the subjective reality that they only can live. It is theirs and they can only deal with it with only what they bring to the table, so to speak. No one is smarter than they are. No one is more capable than they are. No one does anything they cannot do. No one ever does less than the best they can do at the time under all the circumstances they face, and yet few ever do as well as we think they should have. We change with every moment. What we couldn’t do a moment ago, we may be able to do now. What seemed the thing to do at the time may never be the thing to do again. How can you not love someone when you understand them and the circumstances thoroughly? They are mostly just like you. The differences are minute. The circumstances are never the same. It doesn’t matter what they do or who they are. You can love them because you want to love them. Doing so in sincerity will yield rewards beyond this author’s capacity to communicate.

I am waiting here for you. I wait in my private little paradise “that makes me think of two,” as Neil Young put it. I think of everyone though. I am here. Join me. It is the lonely thing left for me to want.

Limited Resources

Limited Resources

People still think that the resources of Earth are limited. They think there can be no equality in the standard of living because of it. This type of thinking is too constrained and based on too little research. The Earth is not the limit of our habitat and the Earth is not as limited as some would have us believe.

There are those who have made a distinct case for the abundance of resources. Read The Ultimate Resource by Julian Simon from1981 Princeton University Press. This is a person who has done the research. He is not buffaloed by the propaganda of limited resources that is so needed by capitalists that they would stop at nothing to perpetuate the myth. Malthus pundits should look more deeply into the motivation of the reverend to write his book.

The constraints of the mind are not easily overridden, but they must be overridden. It is imperative that we examine our thought processes and determine the validity of our givens, assumeds, and theorized. Base thinking on free processes instead of per-programmed processes. It is nonsense to examine the world and compare its resources to the consumption rate produced by our current systems; systems laced with evils of all kinds. Can you consider alternative ways to live, other than in a capitalistic society? If not, keep trying. There is a lot of effort being expended to prevent people from thinking in terms of working together for the common good. Instead, it’s competition and greed, adversity and hardship. Imagine unemployment figures in the fifty percent range. The system would collapse. Depression would destroy us. We live in and advocate, mindlessly, capitalism even though it depends on never slowing down the work, never having enough, keeping people working by depriving them and luring them on with the “carrot and stick.” Scarcity is a means for keeping profits and prices high. Meanwhile, all that can be done to make the word “communism” into a bad word is being done. Try not to forget that working together and sharing in the rewards is what we do in a commune. There is no efficiency in capitalism or communism as they are expressed today. They are mere forms of government and economics designed to protect the wealthy and keep the rest of the people subjugated and impoverished; sustaining the false belief in forms of superiority that have no real meaning. If you can imagine the end of all the world’s military efforts, you will see that our resources are way too plentiful to be exhausted when used to sustain the highest standard of living for everyone.

Let it be known that there are other planets and places in the universe. We are bound to Earth only by our own ignorance, and our “leaders,” those who do not actually lead but control. We can access resources of apparent infinite quantities by freeing ourselves. Stop the waste. Observe and notice the way we are wasting and feverishly working to exhaust everything perpetuating arcane systems that serve only destruction. Become a person who can imagine a better way and start making it happen.