WISDOM OF THE SAGES
Another stab at what podcast guests could do together.
I asked all you podcast guests for a mission statement. Here’s mine, delivered to me in Inside the Intelligence, a document you can read about here.
“Nothing that goes on in the world is worth spending your time on without there first being a primal understanding. Humanity needs an organizing idea. Endless pushing and pulling, tugging and scraping, cajoling and screaming, a hubbub of irrelevancy will go on forever until there is a call to STOP. Call, Suzanne, call. Be clear. Get everyone’s attention. No more settling. Wake the world up”.
Since 1989, Inside the Intelligence has emboldened me. When I was urged to do a podcast and wondered why the world might need another one, I did it because it was a way to realize this mission of mine.
You are an outstanding bunch, where each of you moves the world in the direction it needs to go. If we did a live event, a la what TED does, I trust it would make waves.
For my variation, in a much easier delivery system, I think all of you responding to the same request could lead to something. How about getting out your iPhones and making a one-line statement about the reason, in the evolutionary scheme of things, you think that humans were created.
Hoping to hear yours…
It’s time to reinvent the world. We are so unraveled that we’re in position to start over.
What’s primary is to move into a worldview where caring about each other is as important as caring about ourselves. Without that, it’s moving deck chairs on the Titanic. A humanitarian world succeeding an economic one will best position us to address all that ails us.
What’s also primary is to bring everyone in the world up from poverty. A declaration we’d go to the moon was what mobilized that effort. A declaration now would be that it be a fundamental right to get sustenance: health care, housing, food, education. For everyone, everywhere. In Grunch of Giants, in 1983, Bucky Fuller wrote, “I do know that technologically humanity now has the opportunity, for the first time in its history, to operate our planet in such a manner as to support and accommodate all humanity at a substantially more advanced standard of living than any humans have ever experienced.”
These are not long-range goals. They are necessities NOW. Global warming is not a political issue and even COVID could be child’s play by comparison to it.
How can we make these things happen? We need government to take people out of poverty, but changing our worldview can come from the private sector. We need to be creative.
It’s time to reinvent the world. We are so unraveled that we’re in position to start over.
What’s primary is to move into a worldview where caring about each other is as important as caring about ourselves. Without that, it’s moving deck chairs on the Titanic. A humanitarian world succeeding an economic one will best position us to address all that ails us.
What’s also primary is to bring everyone in the world up from poverty. A declaration we’d go to the moon was what mobilized that effort. A declaration now would be that it be a fundamental right to get sustenance: health care, housing, food, education. For everyone, everywhere. In Grunch of Giants, in 1983, Bucky Fuller wrote, “I do know that technologically humanity now has the opportunity, for the first time in its history, to operate our planet in such a manner as to support and accommodate all humanity at a substantially more advanced standard of living than any humans have ever experienced.”
These are not long-range goals. They are necessities NOW. Global warming is not a political issue and even COVID could be child’s play by comparison to it.
How can we make these things happen? We need government to take people out of poverty, but changing our worldview can come from the private sector. We need to be creative.
These are two things we could do: HUMANITY’S PARTY OR THE TEAM OF HUMANITY and FOCUS FOR HUMANITY – THE MINUTE OF SILENCE