Reply #19: Ending money [View All]

I'd love to. I'd also like to end all power hierarchies, poverty and war. Since we can't realistically do any of that, we are faced with their consequences (not later, but NOW).

Since we can't easily or quickly change the mechanisms humanity uses to organize itself, we need to change the way individuals see their relationships with each other, other life and the planet itself. Perhaps if we encourage a few more individuals to mature in their attitudes we will have a greater chance of more positive values infecting the body politic down the road.

ETA: One thing that might speed the process of chage along is a rupture of some of the corporate-political-economic-social organizational systems that keep us bound to our traditional ways of doing things. How that might happen is anybody's guess, but the stresses that have been accumulating around the world (e.g a combination of global recession, soaring oil and food prices and the knock-on effects of Fukushima) may offer an opportunity or two in the short to medium term.