War is a pathetic solution to dealing with
a**holes, ie., narcissists, sociopaths and psychopaths--the people who are so
selfish that they feel they are so deserving that it's okay to kill other
people, destroy other people's property to get what they want. War is a
terribly top down way of adjusting power balances. Nuclear weapons are
profoundly stupid top down things. I can't tell you how times I've heard
impatient old white men say, "Just nuke 'em." it's a dumb,
oversimplified "solution" that is insane. As David Swanson has
written, war is a lie. We get into wars because of lies. War is a blight upon
humanity and the military leaders and the corporations that profit from war are
sick manifestations of the worst of humanity. We do not need hundreds of bases
all over the world. We do not need billion dollar aircraft. War is one of the
biggest thieves, stealing from humanity.
9- Transparency
Secrets are top down. Transparency is bottom up,
opening up information, policy, agreements to everyone. Transparency is the
disinfectant that prevents corruption, theft and other actions by narcissists,
psychopaths and sociopaths. Digitize transparency so it is not only open, but
also findable.Require corporations and businesses to also be transparent. They
are not people. They have the potential to be very dangerous.
10- Support Empathy,
Compassion, Caring
Good parenting is the best way to build these.
But we can also establish values that include them. Currently, there are
ideologies that are uncaring. That has to end. Teaching these to children
should be done, even in public schools. Caring and empathy are not the sole
reserve of religion.
This is just a starting list.
In the future, people will look back at today's
times and see them as bizarre and uncivilized, as savage as the times of the dinosaurs.
The future will be civilized from the bottom up.
This video by Gar Alperovitz inspired me to write this article
Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
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more detailed bio:
Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, (more...)
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