We must change- quickly- everything about our lifestyles in order to stop the damage that’s been done, and salvage what we can.
Changing lifestyle habits takes some adaptation. We learn to put the bottles and cans into the recycling box instead of the trash can, we wake up half an hour earlier to go for a walk, we change the way we eat to adapt to a new medical condition… these things are simple and direct adaptations.
Changing habits of thought takes quite a bit more.
We’ve figured out that the government is not our Mommy, that big business is not our Daddy. We know that the planet, the economy, and people in general are in a state of emergency. Suddenly we’re in a scary world that’s about to go down for the count, all alone … or are we?
There are our friends, the like-minded buddies we’ve been talking to all along. There are some in our community who are teetering on the brink of similar realizations, they just need a small push, along with some confirmation and support. There are others “out there” in the world who’ve already come to the same realizations and are soloing it, “hermits”. There are myriad groups who are seeking to make changes and create new systems for sustaining life on a grassroots level. There are other social and community groups that have been around for time immemorial. There are the bureaucratic constructs that we never really pay attention to because they’re wrapped in red tape and marginally functional.
But when we look at all of these together, now we have too many avenues to explore and not enough time- too many options.
All of these community connections can be worked out, they’re simply tangled up and disconnected from one another right now- usually because too much regulation and too little humanity is involved- or too much ego. But if we can ditch the red tape, we’ll see that we already have all the “nodes” we need in order to create a new way of operating, if we find creative new ways to hook up the humans within them. The important part is to bring people together to get things done.
In a way, we just need to get the teams organized- we don’t have to be in the game ourselves, we just need to get the people who can do each thing to play their positions- facilitate their game and cheer them on.
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