How We Saved the World essays for saving the world
How about flooding the internet with more of them?
Welcome newcomers, to the thinking Substack. Suzanne Taylor’s Now What? is hustling to find ways to get to the world we’d like to be in.
With a sense people have of helplessness, appreciations keep coming in for the essays having given people something they could do. I could see them showing up everywhere, like getting on TikTok and from there to TV talk shows and news reports and as fodder for our Saturday Night Live. It’s a spreadable thing!!!! We’d have someplace that gets copied on essays that would work with getting ideas out. Is that a topic for our How We Saved the World Zoom? How about calling our Zoom a Thinkfest? Better than a Savior Soiree?
When ideas are in play, one person says something that spark another person. Brian Thomas Swimme points to being in a relational universe:
“The universe transforms itself through relationships, not some predetermined scientific mumbo jumbo. The universe is moving toward community. The universe is moving toward interdependence. So if relationship is a basis for life, then our survival depends on our reliance upon one another.”
Here’s a more primal perspective from my physicist/mystic hero:
“Why do things draw together? Because the universe wants to create community. So the atoms are drawn together to create the community of a star. The stars are drawn together to create the community of a galaxy. I’m happy to provide the why for why we are fascinated. We are fascinated because the planetary mind needs our creative development in order to unfold. It’s hard to think about because when you think of mind or organism you think of something out there. But what we have to realize is that we are the planetary mind.”
Click for a transcript of the whole podcast Exploring the Relational Heart of the Cosmos.
With thanks for the well-wishes that have been coming in and hopes that what drew the essayists to think about humanity succeeding will keep them involved in making it all up so it might as well be wonderful!!!
PS: We have a playlist for essay contest posts. For anyone new, they will bring you up to speed. The last few have strings of comments about essays that are good for everyone to read and still are being added to.
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The more I think about this, the more I realize that it is ... us to US. Each person. In each of their world corners. Whatever is unfair or unjust in your corner of the world, we should address it. That is what i am trying to do as I write my book showing what living in an HOA (essentially an authoritarian society) does to people. Writing it is an adventure, but a solitary one. Talking to this network of people makes it feel less solitary!
Hey, Suzanne. I like the idea of the Zoom follow-up. To follow on from 'How We Saved the World' essay competition, it could be called the 'Now We Save the World Voice-fest' in honour of the winning essay.