Let’s Change: The Mind

The notion of everyone being able to live well sounds nice but how can it actually work?  

First, we need to change our minds.

We need to change our minds and believe that everyone deserves a good quality of life.  The people who are living as our owners, and ourselves, need to accept we all deserve to have a quality life.  Change can be intimidating and difficult.  Change is happening though, the economic systems built thousands of years ago are destroying us at large.  We need to change our minds that we are competing with each other for survival to one that we collaborate and cooperate to live.  

We need to change our minds that the systems and rules setup in the past should not change. We have been trained that what has been established hundreds, or thousands, of years ago is correct. Our collective strife, en mass, is proof that those systems need to be abandoned and a new society developed.

We need to change our minds that we need to work for a boss.  We already do work for each other but our efforts and outputs are filtered and manipulated from each other via the ownership/financial structure.  We can fully live in purpose and experience driven lives- exclusively.  The purpose of creating or providing for ourselves and the community.  The purpose to live and experience the wonders of this world we have been gifted.  We do not need to give the fruits of our efforts to a master who then determines who will have access, we can enjoy them together. We own what we create and we can share what we create directly with each other, there is no benefit to having the fruits of our labor hoarded and manipulated by a “boss”.  Freedom requires us to accept we have the power and want everyone to have a LIFE and no one needs or deserves to lose, suffer or go without.  We would need to reprogram our brains from what we have been told - there isn’t enough - to live in the world as it actually exists where there is plenty for everyone to live well. 

We can all have it all - but everyone cannot have anything they want the moment they want it.  We need to change our minds to better understand true wants versus true needs.  We NEED to celebrate each other and ourselves.  We WANT a new outfit for every celebration.  We NEED to eat.  We WANT to consume any kind of food we desire anytime we want.  We NEED homes.  We WANT to update their aesthetics anytime we want.  Changing our minds from the instant gratification mindset, which a large section of the world has adopted, to a delayed gratification mindset is critical to developing our free market society.  The value system in our new society will be responsibly using resources, conservation and sharing.  Life will be enjoyed and celebrated in new healthier ways. 

Everyone can have a new outfit for each celebration in the new society as everything can be shared. Instead of having a dress worn once and sit in your closet for years to ultimately go in a landfill after one use it can be shared and enjoyed by multiple people until it cannot be used anymore. Everyone can update aesthetics in the new society too, just not necessarily the minute you want to.

We also need to reprogram our brains from a “humans are evil, destructive and untrustworthy” mindset, a mindset that was cultivated as a way to maintain the caste system.  We can see humans as the majority of us actually are - 98% of us are actually responsible, caring, productive and want the best for everyone.  We would re-train ourselves to commit to this new healthy, safe and collaborative way of life.  We have been trained for eons we need to hoard and compete.  We would need to learn to acknowledge destructive impulses, manage them within ourselves should we feel them and not destroy life for ourselves and everyone. We can trust each other to care for us. We can trust ourselves to care for each other.

We would need to abandon the false narrative that some roles or vocations are more valuable than another.  Any role, or action, where a person is caring for themselves or others to ensure a healthy society exists, has value.  The brain surgeon and the person mopping the floors at the hospital are both absolutely critical to the system’s functioning and the healthy care of humans.  The brain surgeon has specific personality characteristics, skill sets and aptitudes that draw them to, and allow them to perform in, that role.  The person who mops the floor also has specific personality characteristics, skill sets and aptitudes that draw them to, and allow them to perform in, that role.  Generally the person mopping the floor would not want to do what the brain surgeon does and vice versa.  A true free market society would acknowledge the value of both roles.  The person staying home to prepare food, clean clothes and organize family events is as important as the brain surgeon and the mopper.  This new society will enable people to operate in vocations that best suit their personalities, skill sets, aptitudes and the needs of the community - which will improve the overall functioning of society.  People who don’t truly have the skills to be a brain surgeon would no longer force themselves into that role for the existing status and monetary benefits it provides.  Operating in a role that doesn’t suit you is a disservice to yourself and society.

Money has power because we believe it has power - in our minds - we can open our minds to see the true power is our effort, energy and life force.