how can we face the future we are shaping?

[Beam Me Up]

Is there any single idea that could be so compelling that the vast majority of the people of the Earth could embrace it universally as true?

Those of us gathered here in this forum identify with certain opinions which--at least some of the time--unite us, or most of us, toward working for a common aim.

What could be the single most compelling aim of humanity at this point in its long and complex history?

If we can not find a real answer to this question, how are we going to face the possibilities just now appearing on the horizon of our future?

I'm not sure I agree totally with his analysis but Noam Chomsky seems to have put it susinctly in the title of his book, Hegemony or Survival. In other words, whether we know it or not, it has become an einther/or situation: Either we move beyond the limitations that have kept us bound to a history of conflict, or we destroy, perhaps irrevocably, any possibility we may have had to become both conscious and responsible beings.

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[FlemingsGhost]

1. Stop living in fear.

The past is gone, the future hasn't happened.

Be present.

[Beam Me Up]

3. Hello!

:hi:

[punpirate]

2. The wealthy in the world believe...

... their survival depends upon the accumulation of wealth. What they do not accept, do not acknowledge, is that their survival depends upon the survival of the rest of us. If they don't work toward the survival of the rest of us, they do not survive, either.

The task is convincing them.