During the COVID crisis we need confidence, transparency, effectiveness from our leaders and media. Why is the stock market being pumped for the 1% while unemployment runs out? Where has $50 trillion gone over the last few decades? What is being revealed?
Image: Man reading a newspaper in Hong Kong. What messages are our leaders giving today?
How can we improve society with 7 billion addicted consumers? Easy, our kids will look beyond their parent’s culture that got them into this mess. Yes, there are alternatives.
What if we could predict the future to know what is best for our children and grandchildren? Would we act on what we know?
We can only save the world by putting women in charge. Men have created the world’s problems, and must now step aside. It’s time to put Women In Charge.
American inequality is chronic. But just ranting about it will not create a fair balance between profit and common good. Today’s landlord-tenant system leaves the landlord with the money and the renter penniless. Here are the systemic changes we must make to guarantee good homes in good communities for all.
Society is made up six concentric circles or rings each getting smaller and closer to enlightened as one moves inward to knowing. However, the commonly held view of what enlightenment is, is wrong. How so? Why is correcting this view so important?
Ever since humanity began to tell stories, we have left messages to the future. Solve these Kōans to train your mind. They show us how to heal the world, and where our future lies.
Civilization, reinforced by modern religion, lends humans to believe we can break the laws of Nature and God. Breaking a law of Nature or Life is like trying to break the laws of physics: we can’t without breaking something or killing someone. I am not generally a religious writer, but if I were a prophet, I would write something like this.
Something about this Coronavirus does not add up: its spread, timing, government responses, competition, fear, profiteering, obsession.
Once society widely understands what needs can never be met with democracy + capitalism, humanity will start seeking a better way forward. What are the two great problems that modern society cannot solve?
