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Aug 17, 2023Liked by Suzanne Taylor

Thank you, Suzanne! You are a truly wise and loving soul who has never wavered from her commitment - which I share - to save the world!

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Hello Suzanne and everyone else on this list. I just found your Substack and I am reading along. I hope I am not going to be the dissonant tone along all this positive thinking but I don't think that you can get to your idealist fantasy of a loving world if you don't engage the poor people, the lower classes, the working classes, the dispossessed, and with only loving language and beautiful utopias you won't. We need to think realistic because when you have a bunch of frustrated and hungry people all your loving ideals will not be enough to convince people to join you. I am also looking for thinkers to think with and I appreciate this ideas and others I have been seeing appearing online, forums, etc, to try to save the world, I too write about it, but I feel like a lot of this talk comes from the top,highly educated or well off economic classes, and there's an absence of representation and vision from the lower classes, the masses, which I am part of, low income self employed piano teacher. I don't see how we, tired workers running around to pay rent and bills, can be part of a future plan or present solution. I don't know, all this utopian thinking seems to be reserved to the elites, and we can't ignore the rest. Sorry to be the party pooper. I wish I also had a better idea myself for a better future for all but I don't.

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You just haven't read enough of my posts. I am with you. I write about the main thing keeping our system in place is income inequality. One of my top advocacies is some sort of Universal Basic Income. "UBI –The #1 thing that would be most changeful. Everyone gets food, shelter, education, and health care. Take people out of survival so they can think about the future," is from https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/roadmap-to-the-future-part-two.

Just for a bit more, I post about this on pundits' sites. This was to Robert Reich: "What fundamentally needs to happen is a shift from worshiping money to becoming a caring and compassionate peoples. If we were, we'd invoke some sort of UBI for everyone, so we'd come out of the conflict and tension we are in from so much poverty where at least people came out of survival and could think of other things."

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Would add: rather than 'wanting' the most good, we can change our mindset to 'doing' the most good!! We can make sure that we are conscious, compassionate and collaborative and take care that every thought (as well as every move) is done with care and consideration. Then we can just watch the magic happen!!

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One of the elements in my master plan is a kind of Forbes list where instead of having the most money it's doing the most good! But that mindset goes along with people feeling good about themselves, which is what being tuned into the Universe Story delivers.

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To tell a truly different "story" - more enlightened, more healing - we must examine the original "story..." The "story" of "me," the ego "I," the "story-teller." When we see that that is a fiction too, then our mind empties, and we can create something truly new and original..

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Aug 17, 2023·edited Aug 17, 2023Author

Ah, another quarter heard from. We're in spiritual territory here -- but I think not contradictory. The Universe Story that we all are in isn't a personal ego story -- it's the scientific reality of living in an expanding universe. You can be in both at once. All of us who understand our interrelationship as one humanity then have our personal work to do to identify with that essence of our interrelated selves and not our ego, and you are a great teacher for that! Maybe you can do a better job to make that comparison clear? You also could invite people to your talks!

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see if you agree with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrKf9nYeXT0

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"All Wars Are Bankers Wars" is the title and I wouldn't disagree. We have a shameful history that we first became massively aware of with the Bush presidency. Omg we've been imperialists. Nation builders. All by and large what our ideals say we are not. And we're still doing it. Read Seymour Hersh this week on our destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines: https://open.substack.com/pub/seymourhersh/p/harold-pinter-had-it-right .

A fundamental premise I work with is that we need to go from being in an economic world to creating a humanitarian one. Track everything that doesn't work and you find economic interests in play, like arms manufacturers and other war profiteers in whose interests horrible perpetrations are made.

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