That's the solution. How do we do it?
It's really the main game, if we have a chance to do any of this.
I've read so many good suggestions. But there are so many frightened people out there, willing to work for the crazy, or evil, or whatever those fuckers are.
Make Everybody Wealthy.
It's a lot to address.
Make Everybody Wealthy starts out with the basics. No food insecurity, no homeless, a reasonable healthcare system, which we don't have.
It means privacy. The wealthy have privacy, so to make everybody wealthy, everybody must be ensured privacy.
It means options and rights of education.
It doesn't mean everybody gets to have a mansion on the hill. Mansions on the hill are interesting, but nobody really needs one. That doesn't mean they can't exist. Lots of things can exist. The sky's the limit.
But if we want to have a stable, non-crazy, non-warring world, we have to make everybody wealthy.
Wealthy means secure. Wealthy means women don't fall into unwanted sex and childbirth.
It means men don't fall into despair and warfare.
Or vice versa.
Making everybody wealthy is doable. That's the hardest thing for so many to grasp, because it is so scary, to think that it really is doable, that the poor don't necessarily always have to be with us. They could be us! All of us!
We come of cultures that historically are dependent upon the poor. The job of the poor is to be serfs. The job of the poor is to be dependent and to despair, mostly, of anything better.
The job of the overlords is to use the poor.
We have an historical culture that sounds like an ant colony. Can't we do better than that?
Some cultures have. Historically, tribal cultures operate very differently; much more horizontally, without the controlling hierarchy.
People who suggest we look more strongly at these cultures as models, are often laughed off, dismissed as silly hippies or delusional.
But those cultures worked, for many thousands of years. There was no talk of climate change then. We still had forests.
There is so much to learn there. We are heading into disaster, and so many will not recognize that we used to know how to do it.
So many will say; "Oh, their lives were nasty, brutish and short." Their lives may have been a bit shorter, but they lived, those hunter-gatherer ancestors of ours. I think they probably had pretty good lives. They sure as hell wrote more upbeat stories about their lives, than we do about ours, these days.
What do we write about, lately? We story-writers?
Pain and emptiness. Fear. Disasters.
I think those people were wealthy.
Problem is, there are now too many of us, because we got so smart about increasing food production and decreasing infant mortality, at least in some parts of the world, like the very privileged one I'm living in.
Nice work if you can get it. But what about everyone else? What about those people who got the wrong end of the crapshoot?
Preparing for drowning in Bangladesh, horribly fucked up in a wide variety of places in Europe and Asia.
What is the United States of America doing about making any of those people wealthy?
Precious little.
Until we get that, we're going to continue to be the anathema we are, to so much of the world.
They hates on us. They are afraid of us, because we allow our government to bomb them at whim. Grenada?
I'd be scared of us too.
A friend of mine went once to Europe, in 2005. He made a point of wearing a hat I'd given him, a nicely made white canvas hat, kind of a bush hat, the kind I like best myself.
My friend likes to use his hats as expressionistic statements. He often uses a felt tip marker.
He wrote "Impeach Bush!" on his hat that I gave him. He wrote other similar stuff on other sides and the top.
He's an artist and a good one; he knows how to create an image.
He told me that he felt safer there in Europe that year, wearing that hat I gave him.
What does it say about our country, that fine, eloquent, and generally presentable gentlemen like my friend, feel they must wear hats disparaging our country, when visiting Europe, in order to feel safe?