Nobody is looking to create a change of heart by humanity
Have a launch: ALL FOR ALL DAY, when all at once humanity shifts to becoming a cooperative body
I cut and pasted this from the transcript after I paused An introduction to the Metacrisis, a video interview with Daniel Schmachtenberger, who gets a lot of attention in the thinking world:
I want people to think about what it would take
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to turn the entire arc of humanity, factoring what is currently driving it,
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and that everything else that you could do doesn't matter at all because the end
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of the possibility space of all meaningful human activities is eminent if we don't do that.
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That's what I'm reflecting on.
The rest of what he said was all about it being too late for humanity, and this was just about all he said otherwise. I grabbed it because for me it’s a starting point, but that’s not what’s going on among the smartest people. Here’s the latest from Geoffrey Diehl, whose previous Substack I just cross-posted to you, who also argues for how it’s too late. It’s almost like there’s a writing contest for describing how bad it is. Who can do it most articulately?
This world is all askew. It’s beyond Trump, et. al. Why isn’t anyone looking for what to do? If doomsday is ahead, where are the people who could be meeting now to try to avert that? Today. Not looking for what people individually should do but what all of us collectively could do. We need our all. We have the internet. Come on. This is ridiculous that I am the only person looking for us to scheme together about what we could be doing now. Explain this to me.
I will explain my part to you. I had educated, very smart parents who had an outstanding child. I just was. I always aimed to get 100% -- at everything. It was overheard in the teachers’ lounge, when I graduated from Central High School as the MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED, that they were worried I might never know what to do because I could do so many things. Some of my credits got cut because they couldn’t fit on my yearbook page. So how that worked out is that life is what I’ve worked with. As the Balinese say, “We have no art. We do everything as well as we can.” How can everything I touch be the best it can be? How can I best help?
In the ‘80s, I caught on to a body of ideas that has motivated and shaped me. It is so clear to me that it is the big truth we need to understand that I look for how to get everyone tuned into it. We are looking for fixes to things that aren’t working, but nobody is looking to create a change of heart by humanity. An understanding of what life is all about, that would make everyone care about everything, would give humanity the best chance to avert disaster. It won’t come from legislation, or elections, or agreements. Will it come from the hearts of all of humanity clicked into good intention ruling the day?
Look at us human beings. Planes fly. We walk on the moon. Computers run the world. Look look look at how beyond the beyond humanity is. Now, get everyone working on the same problem. Have a launch for it: ALL FOR ALL DAY, when all at once humanity shifts to becoming a cooperative body. Get billionaires to make this happen. Make it for real. Just do it. Get We Are The World sort of participation, with major celebrities joining in. Come on. It’s to save us.
Here’s what I had started writing before what’s above took over:
I love my ideas for how citizens could change the way we do things, but changing our minds is more important. I want a campaign for getting that to happen. I’ll pay honorariums so it’s taken to be serious for savvy people to talk about this.
Brian Thomas Swimme, from whom I got the big truth we need to understand for humanity to be united, said this to me early on: “We’re both pointed at the same thing, igniting a great raging forest fire of love that will sweep us forever out of this deadening sadness of egos and superficiality.”
In a year-old interview with former NASA astronaut, Ron Garan, I went to space and discovered an enormous lie, that has 5,837 comments and 55K likes, Garan pointed out that problems such as deforestation, global warming, and climate change are just “symptoms” of an underlying root problem. He said there is something bigger that humans don't see: “I saw the unbelievable thinness of our planet's atmosphere.” Garan was troubled by how easily this fact is overshadowed by economic priorities. “I saw an iridescent biosphere teeming with life. I didn't see the economy. But since our human-made systems treat everything, including the very life-support systems of our planet, as wholly owned subsidiaries of the global economy, it's obvious from the vantage point of space that we're living a lie.” According to Garan, humanity’s inability to see the bigger picture limits our potential to solve the planet’s real problems. “There is no such thing as them. There's only us.”
"We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself
because it wasn't cost-effective." - Kurt Vonnegut
Don’t tell me humanity can’t become cooperative!
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OK, Suzanne. Count me in!
I liked your posting but failed institutions are also part of the reason we are facing a conundrum. We also need organization structures to hold fallible human nature in check.