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Occupy: New Wine and Old Skins

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We take another step forward as we align with and create organizations for political change. For so long as we have government, required for civil society, politics will be a lever for change. There is much discussion in Occupy about how we should engage with the political system, if at all. I suggest that the overriding consideration should be on where government and the political process we can enable the principles of peace and love, for here we will find integrity and trust as well. Whether a unified third party emerges or a slate of candidates we choose to endorse, or whether we focus on certain politicians we seek to remove, we must engage politically if we seek cultural transformation.

So let us then lay down a marker, one that makes explicit our ethics, that says we operate from peace and love, with integrity and trust. Let us remind our friends in Oakland and elsewhere that the goal is peace and love in this living moment, along with creating a just and healthy economic and political system. In this way we do not create a host of policies which can be perverted by corporations to find some new loophole for exploitation. We need ethics, not 8,000 pages of tax code.

This is the way seen forward by World 5.0, the great idea of our time, well-suited to be the new wine skin for Occupy. It's the idea that we intend a new cultural operating system based on ethics, and that if we seek to be happy we must master our intent to find our way to the inherent peace and love of this moment. From here we promote localism, healthy communities and ecosystems, and end to war, and organizing to create political change. We are on the threshold of a quantum leap in human understanding, and as a result the creation of a new Earth.

The time is always now. The answer is always Love. Onward.

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