So, here we are. We want to live in a real world, a sane world, a world that is equally respectful of all people, all animals, plants, and the living breathing organism we know as the Earth. And we have essentially no idea how to build this world from the materials we’ve currently got to work with. How to we approximate sanity within a system of insane disregard for the well-being of the earth and everything contained by it? How do we buy land without borrowing money in a system that presumes debt as a prerequisite for land-ownership? How do we raise children to think for themselves, to be critical of the deluge of information waiting to tell them anything and everything they’re willing to belive, within an educational system that demands nearly every moment of their childhood and adolescence and, in return, prepares them for a ‘career,’ fairly thoroughly avoiding the awful mess of teaching them to think, to be good humans, rather than good employees. What are we to do about a population that is completely and utterly dependent on fossil-fuels and electrically powered technology, ridiculously removed from the basic processes of providing their own food and shelter in the most primitive way? The further we go along this path, the less we’ll know about how to take care of ourselves.
Why should I be required to purchase a government health insurance plan if I don’t want one? Why should I have to pay social security, if I’d rather save that money privately to support myself after I’ve retired? Why should my future children have to spend their childhoods studying for standardized tests, to assess their ability as indentured servants to a social and economic system that they may or may not even be interested in being a part of?
And yet, here we are. And how do we get where we want to be?

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