We Are the World
by Su Terry
At first we thought it was just us four. Five, if you count Mario (the dog). But gradually we realized that there were more of us than we could ever count. Hundreds of thousands. And that’s what ended up changing the world, a little at a time.
I’d better start by telling you about the initial group, which was myself (I’m a musician and composer), Taneshaa who’s a molecular biologist, Isaac the gardener (he’s really a genius with plants and nutrition but just calls himself a gardener, like the main character in Being There) and Suzanne, my best friend from high school who was Student President, and later…but don’t let me get ahead of myself.
Plus Mario, my chihuahua mix.
Even though Taneshaa, Isaac, Suzanne and I have very different professions, somehow we have always gotten along and in fact I think it’s because we’re so different from each other that we were able to form our little club, called We Are the World. We called it that because we still believed in the message from the song that came out in 1985 (maybe because none of us had been born yet and it seemed like this legendary thing from the past and we loved it):
We are the world, we are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day, so let’s start giving.
There’s a choice we’re making, we’re saving our own lives
It’s true, we make a better day, just you and me.
(composed by Michael Jackson & Lionel Richie)
We started meeting at Taneshaa’s house because she had a nice patio that overlooked some woods and it was very private. We needed privacy since most of the ideas we were discussing were thought of as quite radical for the time. Our mission was this: while our ‘leaders’ designed the world to make us feel powerless, we intended to bring our power back. We aimed to do that by creating initiatives that would help each individual person feel valued, and motivated to contribute to making a better day. All of us in the group had read Riane Eisler’s The Chalice and the Blade, as well as Terence McKenna’s Food of the Gods, so we were very familiar with how the male dominator culture had taken over from partnership societies. We realized that the majority of the world’s problems rose from the dominator culture mentality, so moving toward more of a partnership society became our model and our guiding light.
We didn’t want our lives to be micromanaged by government. It had been getting really bad. So many rules. You had to have a license for everything you did. They said it was to regulate industry standards but in reality it didn’t stop any less-than-ethical people, it only put a chokehold on innovation and made it hard for people to move to another state, since they would have to get re-licensed for everything.
We objected to the trend of A.I. to make us stop believing in ourselves. Technology and devices were becoming an addiction for so many people, and the ones benefitting from our addiction were the ones who owned the technology. People were asking Chat GPT what to do instead of asking themselves. Which was funny, because at the bottom of every Chat GPT window was the disclaimer “Chat GPT can make mistakes. Consider checking important information.”
As we sit here in 2050, with all the amazing inventions that have cleaned up pollution, improved people’s health, wealth and education, and made it possible for people to be free and live happy lives, it’s hard to imagine that 25 years ago we didn’t have any of this on the grand scale we have today. I think a lot more people started waking up when the death rates for so many countries rose to the point that it couldn’t be ignored any longer. People started understanding that as long as profiteering corporations were allowed to manufacture “medicines” that actually made us sicker, nothing would change. Taneshaa, being a molecular biologist, was instrumental in bringing this to the public’s attention. She knew that change requires energy, and people didn’t have energy because of subpar health and having to work all the time to pay their bills. She had so many ideas. Once, Isaac said to her “Gee Taneshaa, for someone who spends all her time looking through a microscope you sure know how to get the big picture!”
Now that we have clean air, water, soil and food, most of us are living long and healthy lives. Children are taught about how to care for the planet we live on, and I can’t imagine a child growing up who would want to harm it just to make money. In fact, I don’t even know anyone now who does something just to make money, the way a lot of people did back then. (I use the old fashioned term “money” but of course we don’t have currency anymore.) You almost had to live that way, because everything had become so expensive. There were so many aspects of life that seemed designed to make slaves out of people, instead of letting them live their lives in peace.
The We Are the World club was rather influential in showing humanity how they could be living, instead of being controlled by governments who were in turn controlled by global organizations, who were in turn controlled by some unknown billionaires who funded both sides of every war–and there were always lots of wars going on–so they could destabilize countries and seize their natural and human resources no matter who “won” the war. One of the ways our club did that was by organizing fundraisers to distribute copies of the tenth edition of G. Edward Griffin’s The Creature From Jekyll Island to libraries, community centers, schools, book clubs, TV shows, radio, and even to individuals. There were many other books and films we helped distribute, but that was the first one.
We organized a lot on college campuses. Young people have such energy and enthusiasm; but we weren’t trying to indoctrinate them with rhetoric. We didn’t just tell them what we thought–we listened also. That helped us formulate our workshops, educating young people on the real history of our country and the world. We even set up college courses that became some of the most popular on campus. Many of the students who were really onboard joined our organization, and it was really they who propelled the project from that point forward.
The Outreach Team acquired funding for Isaac, the gardener, to have his own TV show. Being very well spoken and also very handsome, he made the perfect host. His show, which he named after our club, showed people how they could grow and prepare their own food so they could be well-nourished, feel better, and cure illnesses. We were getting tired of global controllers like the erstwhile World Health Organization trying to tell the whole world how to manage public health. At one point they even said we should kill all our chickens because for sure they had Avian flu, and we should stop raising cattle because the lab-grown chemical food they were pushing on us was better. Big corporations were trying to eliminate farmers and sell us their artificial, GMO produce. And this guy Klaus Schwab from the now-defunct World Economic Forum said we should all be eating insects, and staying home so we wouldn’t pollute the atmosphere. That was while the WEF featured gourmet natural meals at their banquets, which billionaires flew to in their private fuel-guzzling jets.
Isaac’s TV show soon was so high up in the ratings that it was spun off into different languages and countries. He created a worldwide franchise for it, and we used some of that money to fund our other projects. (We were still using money then. More on this later.)
One of those projects was finding the inventors who were truly innovative and setting them up with manufacturing facilities. That’s why today we have roads, highways and even buildings that are made with recycled plastics and garbage. And today we have plenty of green areas and managed reforestation so even those who live in cities are never far from a pristine nature environment.
As you can imagine, it wasn’t easy to get legislatures and captured government agencies to agree to support these necessary innovations. There was so much corruption, and that was because of the trickle-down from the corrupt “officials” at the very top of the power pyramid. That’s where Suzanne came in. As I mentioned, she was always interested in making people’s lives better. She started out in politics by becoming Student President of our high school. She created committees and liaisons between administration, students and parents, with everyone contributing ideas and ways those new ideas could be implemented. She was so successful that pretty soon she was being interviewed by major news media, and her skillful use of the Internet allowed this way of thinking to spread across the globe.
By the time our We Are the World club started, Suzanne was already the Governor of our state, but she still made time to come to our meetings….though we did sometimes have to start them at 10 p.m. because of her busy schedule. But we were committed to our activities and were having such success that we were willing to give up a little sleep for it. The only one who didn’t lose any sleep over changing the world was my chihuahua Mario. He slept on my lap during the meetings, while we drank tea and spread out documents, maps and photos over Taneshaa’s huge dining table that she’d moved out to the patio in order to accommodate our expanding vision.
My own role began as the composer of our anthems, advertising jingles, and Isaac’s TV show theme. It was very important to me to infuse my songs with healing energies, having been very influenced by Nikola Tesla’s statement “If you want to find out the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.” That proclamation by Tesla is what all of Science goes by today! With Taneshaa’s help I had studied the effects that frequencies have on physical, mental and spiritual health, and I was able to incorporate them into my compositions so that everyone hearing them would experience all those benefits, even if they didn’t know why. This initial work in frequencies, taken up first by independent laboratories, then NGOs, increased the public’s knowledge about frequencies to the point where today we have no harmful waves radiating from towers or any other structure. Everything is shielded (with materials developed by our Innovations Team) so that people have the benefits of our wonderful communications technologies but don’t suffer health issues because of it. Even our medical treatments are now all based on frequency diagnostics and healing modalities, as well as herbs, nutrition and energy pathway work. When surgery is needed, our surgeons are so well trained that it’s rare to encounter an unsuccessful operation.
Because I’m an artist, I feel strongly that creativity is one of the most important values that humans can have. I saw how the artificial intelligence industry was being allowed to run rampant, harvesting the creativity of humans without compensating them for it, and then used in situations where it controlled all the automated systems and there wasn’t even an actual person anyone could complain to about it. That’s why when Suzanne was elected President of the country, she appointed me as Minister of Ideas. (We were going to call my department “Ministry of Creativity” but I thought that was too New-Agey of a name.) We retained the name “Ministry” not to give it any type of formal historical religious meaning, but because we wanted to return to the original meaning of ministering to people, that is, helping them. As Minister of Ideas I now travel the world with my team, gathering the most useful ideas from other countries and implementing them in our own country. In fact, we have many exchanges with other countries, and I would say the entire world now benefits from the creative spirit we all share.
My personal favorite innovation, found here at every airport and train station, is vending machines with hot beverages in cans. I discovered that at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo, and now we all can enjoy a nice hot matcha tea while we’re waiting for our transport pod! Speaking of traveling, it’s unbelievable when I recall how 25 years ago the global controllers were trying to get people to never go more than 15 minutes away from their homes, and to stop taking airplanes and driving cars to go places. Thankfully oil now stays in the ground where it belongs, our technologies have developed far more efficient and non-polluting ways of powering every type of vehicle, and people can go anywhere they want.
In terms of artistic creativity, today’s artists know they have the power to guide society in many ways. Because we work directly with the realm and source of creativity on a daily basis, we know that our art has to contain the timeless elements that connect people to those other worlds, those other dimensions we don’t perceive in daily life. For this reason, several artists are part of Suzanne’s Presidential Cabinet.
In fact, today’s societies have been built on creativity, literally! For example, when economist Yanis Varoufakis wrote his book Another Now, which then became a film and a TV series, it completely changed the way societies designed their workplaces and financial systems. Who would have imagined, back then, that commercial banks would shortly be eliminated and Central Banks would never again control people’s lives by manipulating the currency, but instead would do what a bank was supposed to do: safeguard our financial security for our entire lifetime. Of course, we don’t do that with currencies anymore, but with digital tokens. I suppose people could start hoarding these digital tokens like they used to hoard money, but that doesn’t happen. Everyone has what they need, so there’s no excess accumulation. I’d like to give credit for that to our evolving humanity, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the Age of Aquarius had something to do with it as well. Especially when you consider how close we had come to destroying ourselves…
Another remarkable thing about the change in the last 25 years is the absence of utility poles and cables all over the place. The world’s power grids were completely remodeled, and now everything is shielded and mostly underground. Makes the landscape a lot prettier, no? We also save energy by not tracking the entire population 24/7. At one point there was surveillance everywhere (just like in that book 1984 by George Orwell where the main character had to hide from his TV). Because most of that surveillance was actually illegal, five countries got together and shared the data on the other countries’ citizens with each other, circumventing the laws of the individual countries. Those countries even called their system “Five Eyes”–how obvious can you get? Suzanne said, “Technically it should be Ten Eyes, so maybe they should call themselves the Cyclops Coalition.”
The original reference was probably the eye at the top of the Big Brother pyramid. I sure am glad we don’t see that creepy image anymore, unless it’s in a history book. Studying history is as popular as football now. After all, we don’t want to repeat our past mistakes. Such as: in the old days there were huge social media companies that harvested people’s ideas without compensating them. That doesn’t happen anymore. Today, creativity is recognized as the most valuable asset we have, and that it’s we human beings who make it. Eventually we redesigned all the A.I. systems to compensate individuals for their ideas. Because all creative ideas are recorded on blockchains, individual creativity is always rewarded. Now A.I. works for humans, instead of the other way around.
The way our educational system has been remade to value individuals’ creativity has led to the happiness humans experience today. Everyone feels valued. Instead of before, when people just felt used by the “system,” or perhaps felt left out by society, now everyone knows they have a purpose. We don’t have the problems of suicide, drug or alcohol addiction or crime that we had back in the day.
It’s not exactly that people have no more tension or are free from troubles, far from it. But in today’s world we’re not living under the illusions that the former globalist controllers kept waving in front of our faces and beaming into our consciousness in nefarious ways, like with broadcast signals that entrained our brains to frequencies that triggered fear responses. They created media narratives and financed certain political groups who deliberately created chaos.
By this time we’ve developed our telepathic capabilities to such a degree that we feel tremendous empathy for one another. We don’t want to hurt anyone because we know we are just hurting ourselves. This is another reason the role of the artist is so important: artists of all genres create the elements of tension and release that we must experience in order to evolve as spiritual beings. What we lack of tension and release in daily life, we make up for in painting, music, sculpture, dance, writing, sports, invention, and so forth.
If I would point to one thing in particular that changed the world, it would be communication between people. In the former era, sometimes you’d be together with other people and they’d all be looking at their phones instead of at each other. I’d like to think the We Are the World club contributed to changing that, because we used to host big gatherings just so people could talk with each other, especially those who came from very different backgrounds and interests. It was kind of a giant online dating center, except it wasn’t online and it wasn’t about dating. Although a lot of people who met each other there ended up getting married!
Speaking of marriage, that too has changed a lot. Now it’s a ceremony and a commitment made between two people and their close community. It doesn’t need to be sanctioned by any state or any organized religion, but people can of course incorporate religious beliefs into their ceremony if they so choose. But I would say the prevalence of older religious orders has waned quite a bit, as people nowadays gravitate towards a more nature-oriented expression of a higher order or force in the Universe.
The practice of marriage, the way we do it now, is symbolic of the way people have discarded “authorities.” For centuries it was as if people were afraid of taking responsibility for themselves, and they entrusted responsibilities to authorities who usually abused that privilege. Now we are much more conscious of how each individual contributes to the health of the community. Each of us knows we’re responsible for our own lives, and we also take on responsibilities for our community. No more delegating to “authorities” who used to serve only themselves at the public’s expense. Today’s Representatives feel the tremendous responsibility entrusted to them, and they are honored to be able to serve our communities throughout the entire planet.
When I think back to Taneshaa, Isaac, Suzanne and my 25-year-old self (with little Mario sleeping on my lap) gathered around the table planning our next activity, it truly seems like another lifetime. Now that I’ve reached my 50th solar return, I’m even more grateful for being present on this Earth during such a formative era. My children have grown into a more welcoming world. In fact, it’s today’s children who indeed make our day brighter. They are givers, not takers. They’ve made their choice, and it is to save our own lives. They feel they are creating the world they want to live in.
And they are.