on a society built from love! and other thoughts

Fundamentally there needs to be more love present in the world because the lack of it is hurting everybody, even those at the top top top 0.001%. 

Universal rights: this is what our country and the larger Western world is based in, that it recognizes and grants those rights to all humans. But it doesn’t do that for every human. 

values: internal personal measurements that define you
beliefs: assumptions about the world, with faith/confidence in your assumptions
ideals: external values you want for society

What are the three's importance in the world we live in now? Does a change in values change society as a whole? I think yes. These top 0.0001% people, they don’t want to change how they live their life and what they’ve made important to their life because they’re successful at it. Why would they stop valuing money if they have a lot of it? Wouldn’t that make them less superior than other people? That’s what they base their importance and power on, so there is no incentive to change their way of thinking or acting on the world. All the evil that results from their mindset is acted upon; it is the consequences of those thoughts.

That’s why I believe changing minds is the key…. A key to changing the world. It’s imperative to continue doing work that improves the quality of lives in real time like changing laws and health programs and daily advocacy, but it’s also important to focus on living a different life, one that complements the world that you want to live in. Yes, it’s hard because we live in this world but our actions now do change the world we live in. When enough people approach a space with XYZ mindset, that space will take on those shared values. With enough material tangible visible changes in our society, more people will be able to adopt AND/OR develop this mindset for themselves. Personally, I believe the spark of real change requires another scientific revolution but that is a discussion for another time. 

An issue I find in my assertion about people being capable of changing their mindset is that I think my mindset is universal as opposed to everything else. I believe love is universal, and abuse does not have to be. Right? Is that true? Living a certain way makes it true, I think. Yes I cannot stop climate change by myself, but that doesn’t mean I can’t live as ecologically conscious as possible. I have the option (and yes sometimes you don't have the option, but other times you fucking do) to choose between what brand of shampoo I wanna buy, where I get my clothes from, where I work and the impact of that on the world. If enough people share the view that Even though my individual actions will not lower the sea levels, I’m still going to choose to be a person that cares abt the environment because that’s what I value, then maybe some things might change. 

The larger cultures you are immersed in do have great influence over what values you embrace, but that doesn't mean your behavior and actions are dependent on others doing it first. I think everybody needs to choose it for themselves to reach a society where we do things for the good of society (aka humanity...) Do good things for the collective because you want to, not because other people are and if you don't you're afraid it'll make you look bad. What is bad is you doing it with no good motivation because there's literally no good in your action.

What I want people to do is choose to love life, the Earth, others, themselves, all of it. Once we fucking choose that all the time then our society would be a lot better. The problem is that there isn't any love and while that sounds so simple, it is not. I’m not saying everybody hold hands around the world although I understand the sentiment. It’s much harder than that, but I’m asking begging on behalf of the people that are dying and suffering every fucking day and asking begging on behalf of myself. The issue is that the 0.0001% don’t want to love because their wealth and power comes from abusing others. But life. is better. when we love. Everybody gets what they want versus only one person getting what they want-- how is that a detriment to you in any way, when you are still satisfied? If what you want is the pain of others, now that is a different discussion and it’s a want that DOES NOT (in my opinion) need to become systems and structures that hurt others. The desire for pain and dominance and violence appears to be a natural quality about humanity. I think the way we can channel it in society is much better than the way that we are doing it now. Healthy love and healthy power and healthy pain. Healthy love doesn’t equal unlimited love, everything is a balance but I don’t believe there is a need for this much abuse.

The idea of factions like in Divergent, the urge to sort people and categorize based on personality traits and values, is so interesting to me. I don’t think that there is a reason to separate if we commit fully to living together in harmony. The thing is, I am sure there are more pillars of society out there that I don’t know about yet and maybe some that I’ll never be able to understand. I feel hesitant about ever calling an end to anything. I don’t think I have the authority to say this is how it is, this is completely what it is in regards to my view of the world. I don’t think one person can come up with a complete idea of what a society is supposed to look like. Society can only exist if humanity is amassed so why would it be able to be produced by one sole human?

Do we live in possibilities that we have the power to influence? The world actually isn’t working the way it should-- it’s running wrong, and we should do something to fix it because we live in the world. It really feels like the one percent of the one percent are ready to leave this planet behind. Our methods of escape to space are so violent, rage and fire and fuel until we break through the atmosphere. I wonder if we lived in a loving world, would we have been able to find new methods of living? Understand science and society completely differently. Emotion, community, care, love, empathy…. If these had remained in our practice I want to suggest, as crazy and far-fetched as it sounds, that our languages of understanding the world would be different. Western science has certainly yielded results, but what if that’s because humanity would always have gotten some result no matter the approach-- reality continually asserting its existence? Or is this horrible awful evil method of learning and gaining information the only method that would have ever worked to understand the world? Has it been the most successful language, the myth of Europeans bringing modernity actually is our reality? Is it really true that these white people happened to figure out really productive ways of manipulating the world around them and the nature of the world is always abuse? I truly don't think so. I think abuse must have started internally within Europeans to then spread into how they as a culture treated the world.

Thinking about Asian history now, which is incredibly lengthy and deeply detailed… we have figured out some ways of living too. It is not true that Africa was backwards or that the indigenous people of the Americas were primitive. We all figured out life at the same pace, with our own traditions. White people claimed that other humans existing at the same time as them were actually living relics? When they literally existed at the same time you existed? Beyond illogical conclusions. I think intermingling for the first time sparked our consciousness moving forward as a species, developing a sense of global identity, but the first move did not have to be violence. It could have been love too.