““The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”
We need to help everyone imagine a better world–one where none of us die from lack of housing, health, or purpose. One where our fundamental needs are always met without anyone asking if we ‘deserve’ it.
There is enough in the U.S. for this imagined world to be real. There is no justifiable reason why we shouldn’t have it.
It’s not enough to simply critique the billionaire-dominated hierarchy currently attacking us. We need to also give people a reason to imagine a better world, and to recognize that right now is precisely the time to make this better world real. At a bare minimum, we should assure that all of our fundamental needs are met without ever asking whether we ‘deserve’ to live.
And have made differently in the past.
While we’re all living in the present it’s extra-important to acknowledge the successes (and sometimes catastrophic failures) of different civilizations of the past. The way we’re living now is not the only way we’ve ever lived as a species, but we seem amazingly incapable of learning from past successes and failures sometimes.