The key to life
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Hello to new followers. I’m especially happy to have here since you are savvy about the Substack world and I’m looking for conversation. My Substack, most importantly, is to stimulate thinking about overshoot, where this civilization won’t survive if we continue to use up Earth’s finite resources at the current pace. You even can earn a fast $100 just for hooking me up with any auspice doing serious thinking about inducing the system change we need.
Ruminating on our government’s three parts that check and balance each other plus the media that is supposed to do the vital job of making sense of everything, the civility on which that all depends is gone. So now what? My intention is for my posts to deliver what can influence people who are not going to take it anymore. We are in a cosmic drama, where the outcome is unknown. I deal with vital info to take in, from what threatens our survival to what could give us the best chance of continuing to have a satisfactory civilization, plus I share my opinions that are different from most people’s about where success could come from, which includes passing along other people’s priceless thinking.
My latest find is Raj Sisodia, where this 7-minute video is excerpted from a panel he was on last week at this event.
I especially want to call attention to this:
“Every single thing we do in this life should come from love. Every action, every statement, even if you have to let somebody go, the hardest thing you have to do, can you do it with love and not anger, fear, greed? Most business decisions come from fear and greed. Can you make that exact same decision but from a place of love?”
It’s one thing to get it that love is the bottom line, but to be rigorous with ourselves is something else. Lately, I’ve stepped-up monitoring myself, where I catch myself when an unloving response would be natural and I look for how to come from love. How we deliver is our experience of life, which is life itself, so it’s a gift to ourselves as well as to the world to be on a loving track.
Here are recent comments I’ve made on other people’s posts, each being a theme I’ve repeatedly posted about:
“PEP TALKS FOR HUMANITY could flood the Net, from well-known people and others who aren’t publicly known. Here’s a great one by Reverend William J. Barber II, on No Kings Day on Saturday,” where the pep talk starts at 4:56.
“We are very good at selling things. Get a billionaire to fund an ad agency doing a campaign. Sell us on humanity being here for greatness, as the caretakers of Earth and not its destroyers. Changed people would give us our best shot at a workable world. Get humanity to fall in love with itself, where loving people would create a loving world.”
“Hubble showed us it isn’t a fixed universe where Earth is here for our use. An expanding universe, that’s very much alive, can translate to us being divine beings in an evolutionary process. Track my Brian Swimme Substack playlist for that: https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/s/brian-thomas-swimme.”
“Deep in the bowels of reality, it is very murky. The average tenure of civilizations has been 250 years, and that's next year for ours, which is more capable of self-destruction than any in the past. We also are more capable of looking at ourselves and thinking together than any before us. I'm keeping a list and checking it twice for participants in a dialogue I’d like to have to scheme about what we can do about this.”
“For a precedent of savvy people thinking together, there was the Twilight Club. During all of the last century, a succession of top intellectuals and business leaders—including Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Walt Whitman, Thomas J. Watson Jr., Walter Russell, Theodore Roosevelt, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Arthur Conan Doyle—met to improve the world. That gave rise to the library system, child labor laws, Scouts, Kiwanis, the Better Business Bureau, and other things for the public good. Why don’t we have anything like that now?”
“For sense to be made, maybe we need to look way outside the box to where capitalism is so entrenched that we're feeling helpless to it, and so are fiddling while Rome burns. But what we hold dear has outlived its usefulness, and Donald Trump could have been ‘sent’ as our savior, destroying so much of our foundation that we have to rethink the basic ways we run the world!”
“I’m a Democrat who never did anything but vote. What is this mythic Democrats’ organization? Where is its head? As a body without a head, held together by the grossness of the alternative, where could the vision the Democrats need come from?????”
“How about a secret ballot among Republican Congresspeople, up or down on Trump? I can't imagine anyone voting up, but is that a hope more than a real possibility?”
“We were operating on the surface, unaware of how our world runs, which let it fall into crooked hands. Now we are wising up, seeing so much that we didn’t have a clue about regarding all the good America has been doing and how that can be undermined. It’s a new playing field, and it’s step one to get us to a viable future.”
“Create a vessel. Get a massive amount of signatures for People for the Good. That body would need to know what to advocate for. It could come from a Wisdom Council, and that could be created by one beloved person, like Oprah, volunteering to start it. She would pick a second person, the two of them pick a third, and so on.”
I’ve been at this agitation-for-awakening for a long time. Decades ago, when we sent handwritten communications in snail mail, I put this on the back of note cards I had made:
Here’s me in Substack Notes. I urge you to have a look at comments I’ve made to get immersed in the unique point of view I argue for.
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I really appreciate the honesty and depth of your post. So much of what you wrote resonates with the questions I’ve been sitting with too, especially how to stay grounded in love and clarity while facing such intense and disorienting times.
Your call to widen the lens and imagine something truly new, beyond the surface noise and entrenched systems, feels like the kind of shift we need. I also love that you’re creating space for conversation, not just commentary. There’s something powerful about gathering people around questions that matter.
Thanks for inviting us into that process. I’m looking forward to following along and contributing where I can.
Sue is a great elevator. Not just of ideas, but of spirit. Her work nudges people upward—toward wider perspectives, deeper questions, and more courageous forms of love in action.
“Now What?” isn’t just a Substack—it’s a signal fire. A call to reflection and reinvention at a moment when the clock is running down and the stakes couldn’t be higher. I may not agree with everything Sue writes, but I never come away unchanged. And that, in these days of noise and nihilism, is a rare and vital thing.
Give it a read. Then sit with the question she’s asking. Then ask it of someone else. We don’t get out of this mess without people like her.