We Live in Interesting Times
While seemingly a blessing, the saying, “May you live in interesting times” is ironically meant to be a curse with the implication that ”uninteresting times” are times of peace and tranquility. Clearly we have been living in interesting times with the divisions and conflicts, between and within many countries and many people, continuing to boil. Throughout the ages it seems that the few people in power have been able to manipulate the people.
Right now just the wealthiest 6 men have as much wealth as the poorest half of the world’s people—that’s three hundred sixty thousand million people vs 6!!! While the poorest half of the world continue to lose wealth, the very richest—especially the top thousand or so—continue to add billions to their massive fortunes. In fact, a 500-seat auditorium would hold as much wealth as 70 percent of the world’s population.
As we at Community Planet say, “The existing everyone-everyone-for-themselves paradigm is broken beyond repair”. We need to create a world that works for everyone and for all life on the planet—and, with our model and that of our partners at One Community, this would be so easy to do and could be done within a generation. Simultaneously we could also restore the planet.
Regarding conflict, there’s an old tune from the 60’s: “Two little kings, playing at games, they threw a war and nobody came…”. When we create those Communities where every resident is living a healthier, happier, and more abundant life on all levels, those elites who want to continue to play the power/domination games, will find it hard to find human pawns to carry out their will. They may even eventually surrender to the reality that their lives will be more rewarding and more fun living with the people in Communities.