Voices of Humanity and other living creatures

 

I was listening to Yuval Noah Harari earlier this morning, talk about the future of humanity. As usual I am impressed, yet on edge.

Whatever conversations there are, in TV or internet, about our future, it doesn't go into the power we have. It's about power to change the world.

I say let's stop focusing on how to control others and forget the language of fear and darkness, and think about the gifts or habits we do have.

Here I must point out I am a mother and a grandmother, but I'm also a friend, a writer and a thinker.

What skills do I possess to "save the world from violence and war"! 

I love historians like Yuval. He is clearly very intelligent and highly regarded, and too smart to become a political powerhouse like that jolly man with the yellow hair. But also he doesn't use hate and fear to "win". He sounds sincere and certainly very knowledgeable.

This is where we are at. "Saving our Planet is not cost effective"! A bright and beautiful woman who is willing to stand for President. Is dismissed as a childless cat lady by right wing media.

If misogyny is what it takes to be in a position of power then send me some sleeping pills so I can sit out the next hundred years.

But it's not that easy. How do we turn off the profit driven media that loves money more than life?

Who cares about truth when the party is over and there is no food or water, no home or family. Nothing to love.

Do you get the feeling that those privileged to be "at the top". Do not dare to love and care for others, care for humanity, and are more preoccupied with their bank account than the health of their children?

I don't believe that. The upper crust may seem heartless by its politics but it's more likely they have invested in appearing strong than dismissing life itself.

Generalizations kill us all. Anything that tells us it's naive to believe we can save the world, is the killer.

Life is supposed to make us fall on our knees. We are supposed to grieve, lay awake some nights, worry.

The upper crust is what we cover sliced apples with before we place the pie in the oven.

Saving the world will be hard but if we care for our home and get real with our appearance as a living breathing sometimes intelligent being we can organize groups to save the world by caring, by healing, by thinking and feeling.

Replace the power of drugs and money with our own desire to care for this world.

I know it sounds simple at a time when we have been taught to seek answers in very complex machines.

Dear human - I love you. Yes you are flawed but so am I.