Vision/Remedy for Humanity

We often take for granted the air we breathe, people, children, our loved ones, the joy of eating, the beauty of the sky, so many things that are plentiful and that we are accustomed to, as opposed to a child where even the smallest things can take on importance. Our lives are commercialized.

Money is a fiction, but it's real. We need it as much as we need air. Without money, we perish.The more money one has, the more power, the more options, the more freedom. In 2022, 2 trillion, 240 billion went to global military spending (https://www.statista.com/statistics/264434/trend-of-global-military-spending/). Estimates of how much money it would take to end world hunger range from $7 billion to $265 billion per year (https://www.globalgiving.org/learn/how-much-would-it-cost-to-end-world-hunger/).

War is business. Everything is for sale, food, sex, knowledge/tech, assassins, bombs, politicians and governments, etc. Ah, politicians and governments, there's the rub. Everything has a price, but not everything should be for sale. Selling people, slavery was finally made illegal is an example. Politicians and governments are another no-no. But the reality is that very rich people and large corporations can control governments simply by buying off politicians. This gives them inordinate power over others. This is the "fly in the soup", or the flaw in the system that is constantly overlooked and accepted. This is why humanity has suffered the same seemingly intractable problems for millenia, i.e. corruption, crime, poverty, hunger, disease, and war. This is why it never is going to change substantially no matter who gets elected, that voting just continues the domination.

Now that humanity has reached the stage of ever-mounting crises, the urge for change is everywhere. But if this key problem is not noticed, the changes that we make will never be enough. Even though things are so complex, sometimes like the Challenger space shuttle explosion in 1986 was caused by a design flaw in the spacecraft's O-rings, which are mechanical gaskets that are designed to be seated in a groove and then compressed in between two surfaces, creating a seal at the interface. That seal helps to prevent liquids or gases from escaping. The morning of the 1986 space flight was much colder than previous Challenger launches, and the primary O-ring became cold and hard and couldn't seal properly.

This is analogous to the ease of corruption in governments today as the major cause of the seemingly intractable and increasing dilemmas that confronts all of humanity today.The solution is to restructure all governments from vertical to horizontal which will remove the possibility of corruption or the selling of the government.

Horizontal governance involves citizen participation, extreme transparency, a new constitution that all could agree upon, incorporating human rights and dignity, along with making all human needs as easily accessible as possible in the most equitable manner imaginable. It would also include confederating cities, villages, and states such that all would have autonomy within the confines of the constitution. Unfortunately, most people have never conceived of this idea and still believe that voting is important and will make a difference.

This would provide the infrastructure or framework for humanity to begin living in a world based on cooperation and collaboration, rather than competition. Hopefully, leading to making unconditional love for all life a commonality.