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It Didn't Have to Be this Way

OTIS loves her:  Caitlyn Johnstone: It’s not just all the war, injustice, ecocide and dystopia that hurts. It’s knowing it didn’t have to be this way.  It’s knowing what could have been. All this innovation that’s being poured into finding new ways to conduct mass military slaughter, to surveil and control our entire society, to restrict and manipulate the flow of information, to create artificial scarcity for products that people need, to create artificial demand for products that people do not need, to compete with rival corporations in order to turn billionaires into trillionaires — none of that needs to be happening.  Humanity could be using its creativity and cleverness to make the world a better place instead. If we were pouring all our resources, time and energy into collaborating with each other for the common good instead of competing with each other for power and profit, we could easily create paradise on earth.  If all our brainpower was going toward impro...

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Caitlyn writes:

Wonder is always accessible, even in the depths of sadness or depression. You might not always be able to find it in the trees or the butterflies, but you can always find it somewhere, often in the sadness itself.  Even in the pain and despondency. Even in the car exhaust and the tattered billboards. Even in the background shimmering of existence. It's always there to be found, you just might have to zoom out or zoom in your camera in order to find your access point to it.

There's always wonder. There's always beauty. And thank god, because what a shame it would be if this world did end without our having marvelled at it and appreciated its majesty. That might be our only purpose. Did you ever think of that? Perhaps we're only here to witness and marvel. Might as well be good at it.

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