Toward a World that Works for Everyone
It doesn’t matter if what threatens our society is job-consuming automation or economy-crippling Coronavirus. When we go to reconstruct, we need to remember certain basic principles. I was going to reproduce just one section of a two-part article I wrote on the subject in 1995, the section on “value is a function of agreement.” I […]
Reposted from 1995. (Continued from Part 1.) (5) The Resolution of Dissonance Creates Paradigmatic Breakthroughs In the course of creating a largescale employment project, dissonance will arise. Disagreement may ensue. A scheme may be abandoned. But history shows numerous examples where dissonance has been the occasion, not for abandoning a scheme, but for creating a […]
A roundup of articles on the status of the Coronavirus and ways we can help…. Von der Leyen: EU plans to spend €100bn to save jobs during coronavirus crisis Daniel Boffey, The Guardian, 02 Apr 2020 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/02/eu-plans-to-spend-100bn-on-saving-jobs-amid-coronavirus-crisis European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen holds a news conference detailing EU efforts to limit economic […]
Coronavirus Is a Historic Trigger Event. Now Is the Time for a Social Movement to Rise Paul Engler, Yes! Magazine, April 6, 2020 https://tinyurl.com/torolhg We can build a powerful people’s response to provide care in our communities and reshape the limits of what is politically possible. There are times in history when sudden events — […]
A roundup of articles on the status of the Coronavirus and ways we can help…. Online Conference April 14-16 Using Covid-19 Crisis to Fix the World Good News Network, Apr 3, 2020 https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/online-conference-april-14-16-using-covid-19-crisis-to-fix-the-world/ “I cannot think of another time in the last million years when our species has been united against a common enemy,” […]
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/connect/togetherathome/ Take the Pledge to Stay at Home In the face of lockdowns and losses, it’s easy to feel helpless — but there are things we can all do to beat coronavirus. From taking care to wash our hands, to staying at home, to calling on governments, big business and billionaires to step up, it’s […]
This is a long but stimulating article. It’s a reflection on what we can achieve when humanity is united. The Coronation Charles Eisenstein, March 20, 2020 https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/the-coronation/?_page=3 For years, normality has been stretched nearly to its breaking point, a rope pulled tighter and tighter, waiting for a nip of the black swan’s beak to snap […]
April 2, 2020 With loving greetings from all souls at this station, this is Matthew. Beloved brothers and sisters, please take a deep breath. Exhale slowly and let your hearts feel lighter. Now envision Earth glowing in golden-white light, then “see” people of all ages and skin colors joyously hugging each other and the animals […]
The rumors are flying – Coronavirus will be short-lived; no, it won’t – There’ll be three days of darkness; no, there won’t – 5G lowers immunity and promotes susceptibility to a virus; no, it’s perfectly safe. If I could hold everything else constant and just run one variable and look at it (which of course […]
Denmark’s Idea Could Help the World Avoid a Great Depression “We are freezing the economy.” Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, March 21, 2020 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/denmark-freezing-its-economy-should-us/608533/ While the White House and lawmakers haggle over the terms of an emergency economic-stabilization package, Denmark has gone big—very, very big—to defeat the unprecedented challenge of the coronavirus. This week, the Danish […]
A roundup of articles on the status of the Coronavirus and ways we can help…. There are so many stories coming out now, we may need to post several roundups throughout the day…. Thanks to Nathalie. Locked-down Paris takes to balconies to applaud health workers Reuters, March 17, 2020 PARIS, March 17 (Reuters) – Residents […]
March 18, 2020, spiritlibrary.com https://tinyurl.com/r663xvl Dear Ones, This is the time we have been waiting for; the time of the great external change is happening. We have been preparing for this for many, many years, and so it has come to pass. Now is the time to use all of the tools and teachings that […]
What a unique situation we’re in. We’re losing people, whether or not it was in their soul agreement, and at the same time, this is a valuable occasion for human unity to emerge. Think of it: Every single person on the planet faces the same situation. Everyone has a common fear. They fear catching Coronavirus […]
10 Positive Updates on the COVID-19 Outbreaks From Around the World McKinley Corbley, Yes! Magazine, March 17, 2020 https://tinyurl.com/wzlta6a If it seems that your news feed has been flooded with nerve-wracking updates on the COVID-19 outbreaks, have no fear—there are also plenty of positive updates on the pandemic as well. So without any further ado, […]
The fear of dying or of causing the death of another – and this fear facing us and every human being around us – has galvanized the world. It has gotten the world’s attention in a way that previous chaos did not. Not the whole world’s attention. Coronavirus is happening everywhere. Everyone is facing the […]
