Hello to new subscribers and followers. Ah, the mysteries of Substack. I wish I knew why we have that distinction. However it may be, I hope you like it here, where I’m looking to hook us all up to become the cooperative species we were designed to become. My website is SUE Speaks, where SUE stands for Searching for Unity in Everything. Before Covid, I was doing projects in L.A.; since holing up, I’ve been communicating all over the world. Van Gogh’s work lives on; this won’t. It’s now. It’s us.
We are getting a PhD in how to think. In the face of the urgency about Collapse, I’ve been chatting and commenting on Substacks dealing with that, looking for how to make humanity aware of the danger we are in so we’d work together to get the best possible outcome. Since I haven’t yet been able to create a movement for people who understand about collapse to put their heads together, I’ve taken it on to be a matchmaker, hooking people up with one another. It’s in the spirit of what I wrote about in Working up an internet new way, about how it takes a while to figure out how to do things with new technologies that couldn’t be done before.
Here’s encouragement, from my favorite quotes collection:
“Seek above all for a game worth playing. Such as the advice of the oracle to modern man. Having found the game, play it with intensity – play as if your life and sanity depended on it. (They do depend on it.) Follow the example of the French existentialists and flourish a banner bearing the word ‘engagement.’ Though nothing means anything and all roads are marked “no exit,“ yet move as if your movements had some purpose. If life does not seem to offer a game worth playing, then invent one. For it must be clear, even to the most clouded intelligence, that any game is better than no game.” From The Master Game, Robert de Ropp.
So, onward. There’s an influx of writers here dealing with how badly we are handling our planet. Those people have my attention as being the most stimulated to make humanity aware of where we are. Relationship being the key to evolution, we need a big bump-up on that now, to relate us all to become one humanity.
Last year, an astrologer told me the greatest love of my life is yet to come. When I was dubious, he assured me that it was in the stars, and that they don’t lie. It’s occurred to me to put that track together with the billionaire-hunting I’ve been doing, for funding some good works I have in mind. Romance while saving the world. What could be better? So, Mr. Money, let me introduce myself.
I’ve got a lot of vim and vigor, and I like to horse around with people who are smart and fun. I like gardening and thinking, which go well together. Cooking, to me, is making little artworks, like the artful Balinese who say, “We have no art; we do everything as well as we can.”
My only B in college was in Comparative Religion. I had not a clue about interiority. (When I was ten I told my dad I was an atheist, and he said I didn’t know enough to be one, but still, I’ve always thought God was made up.) I got astonishingly high marks, although I didn’t learn much. As the child of the last generation of housewives, deep down I thought I was headed there, too, and I was good at taking tests.
I had a decent acting career, most successfully making commercials, where casting directors would look for “a Sue Taylor type.“ Here’s a job I brag on, where, after not being able to find anyone in New York, I was flown in from Hollywood. And, where I usually was cast as a housewife, in those old, housewife-filled days, here I played a somewhat glamorous part in the most movie star thing that ever happened to me.
After 17 years, that started in my first year at college, I split with my husband, who, after we moved to L.A., had become a Hollywood darling (scroll down) as the talented new comedy writer in town. Being the head writer of The Dick van Dyke Show and the creator of Marlo Thomas’s show, That Girl, people like Carl Reiner, Mary Tyler Moore, Norman Lear, and Mel Brooks were the kind of dinner guests who got treated to my cooking skills.
Then, when I wasn’t Mrs. Him anymore, I quit acting and started looking for what to do in that search for unity we all need to be making. Here’s a 3-minute fast trip through my pre-Covid memory lane:
In the what-are-we-doing-here department, maybe it’s to entertain each other, like theater. People do things for other people. We feed each other, make things for each other, protect each other, fix each other, it’s each other all the way down. So, while we’re at it, why not make life nice for each other?
If you just have to have more about me, hooray! Here’s Suzanne’s Story, a bio I was invited to write some years ago, for a book to inspire young girls.
From my hot stuff parents thinking I was the cat’s meow, I grew up expecting the best of myself, and I’m not only still at it, but trying to go faster as my time to deliver what I can grows shorter. Bringing this up-to-date, where I want to get everyone scared enough about survival to be creative about what to do, if there’s no intervention that we make it seems certain the planet won’t sustain us. It’s the conversation all humanity should be having. Forget politics. If salvation is the subject, politics is too slow.
The only thing I’ve seen for not going from Trump’s frying pan to Vance’s fire in getting rid of this administration, is Greg Olear’s proposal, where, thanks to Greg’s participation, people are being creative with him and each other in his Comments. If all writers here were like Greg, Substack would be a hotbed for how to handle our world.
I wouldn’t say Trump lies, but it’s that he’s not tethered to the truth. He makes up everything: landslide victory, highest polls, most respected country, settling wars. He is outside the boundaries of what makes us human. Since a person short on marbles, long on cruelty, and operating outside the law could destroy us, I don’t get why we remain law-abiding. I’ve been asking why not a coup to install a presidential team. I’d see Heather Cox Richardson, Joyce Vance, Anne Applebaum, and Marianne Williamson for the women, among others who’d be as good, that I follow closely. Just picture such warm, smart, human-loving human beings leading our way. If they stated that they are taking charge, so many millions would be on the streets in Washington that I’d see it succeeding.
Thinking about this awesome universe we’ve had the privilege of entering, I’ve always wondered where the design for all its creatures came from. With species in the ocean that are so tiny they need magnification to be seen, the originality of their complex designs is mind-blowing. What got that to happen? If everyone really took in the gloriousness of just that, we’d stop the idiocy of hurting each other. Stop gangs smashing into stores, burglarizing celebrities who leave town, God knows wars, all the misery we cause each other, STOP, and just help each other. Get our mythos to be that humanity woke up to the urgency to cooperate. My, why didn’t we think of this before? Our mutuality needs to be our highest calling, and let’s get everyone seduced by the promise it has to be our salvation.
To get immersed in the point of view I argue for, have a look at comments I’ve made in Substack Notes.
Suzanne Taylor’s Now What? advocates having a revolution. You could say an evolution, to a next phase of consciousness where we act from our interconnection as one humanity. In not having paying subscribers I lose the support the gods of Substack might give, where I am so uniquely revolutionary that I’d think they would sing some praises. But, all I have for support is you.
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