I’d like to start a new social meme that looks at cynicism as mildly immature and definitely not hip. Let’s equate cool with faith in each other and humanity as a whole, willingness to be engaged, and non-violent social skills. Let’s drop “king of the heap” and “I know more jargon than you” games. Let’s also drop “we’re all doomed” and “nothing matters anyway”. That won’t get us there.

We have a long way to go as a species.

The next few decades are crucial. We need to:

1. change the material basis of our society so it is clean ie non-polluting ie zero waste
2. consciously realize we have enough
3. change our social, economic, and justice systems to become non-violent and meet the needs of everyone at the cost of no-one

Here is what will help:

• beginner’s mind
• curiosity
• collaboration
• seeing it as a process
• willingness to forgive ourselves and each other the unequal rates of learning as our whole species gets up to speed on rapidly changing paradigms

Let’s stop being afraid of the future as if we are victims of it, and get down to the the work of creating the future we want.

Everybody say “yeah!”.