What would a world look like where we win, where the system is seriously changed?

8- End Wars and Massively cut military spending

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

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