Yes, we need to bring forth a beautiful new world! I imagine our Founding Fathers and Mothers mapping out a vision for a rebirth and whispering in our ears, seeding our dreams, and shouting across the veils, waves of strength, encouragement and direction.
Yes to this. Resisting is essential—but if all we do is resist, we risk becoming shaped by what we oppose. The deeper work is generating: new systems, new stories, new patterns of belonging. And that starts in the small daily choices that ripple outward.
They want us exhausted. But we’re stubborn in our hope.
We need to push back at everything that Trump has done … We need to give HOPE to the hopeless … and NEW SOLUTIONS to those difficult problems that have always been with us … and RAISE the expectations … that this country can truly have … a new birth of FREEDOM !!!
You know, Bill, I wonder if it is necessarily that the solutions are new. Rather, are they solutions we have failed to embrace in the past? I was born in the heart of the US manufacturing hub in 1958. During my youth, I watched industry after industry displace well paid working people by moving jobs to cheaper labor markets - first from industrial states to right-to-work states, then into the developing world and countries without comprehensive labor and environmental protections. We saw the repeal of the fairness doctrine in the 1970s that required differing political points of view be given equal time on our airwaves. We saw a change in long standing financial oversight that allowed corporations to institute the stock buy back schemes, so rampant today. In 2000 the Green party screamed from the mountain tops that both the Republicans and the Deomcrats had sold their souls to big oil and corporate America. But how dare any of us vote for Ralph Nader.
(Oops wasn't quite done, yet.) We the people have been saying and screaming and voting for people like Marianne for years. My opinion is that the Democrats lost the labor movement when they bellied up to the corporate trothand screwed the working people. First, they had Reagan who looked and sounded really good while he screwed the very people who became his Regan Democrats. It didn't end there as rhe 1990s saw the demise of pensions and full tome jobs while the stock market went through the roof during the Clinton administration. In my opinion that's how we got here to Trump. Like Regan, minus the suave and debonair, he told working people he cared about them and those mean old corporations had screwed them and moved their jobs overseas. We wonder how we ended up here. We gutted public education of civics study. Now we have the rise of authoritarianism. And we don't know why?To riff off The Church Lady... Could it be GREED!!!???
Agreed, as I was born mid 1950s, I observed the same. Corporations abandoned communities, to move jobs to maximize profits. Small family farms were out competed by agri industry corporations, some owned by foreign investors. Local stewardship of the land, by generations of ranchers, and farmers, and indigenous people, was replaced by distant boards of corporations. Land became a commodity for buy/sale, and to extract profit. The effects on communities, and eco-systems has been devastating. Climate change is one sign. We, the people, need to care again more for our 'home' lands, and each other. We need to love one another, and care for our Earth Mother, who nourishes all of us.
Hablan lachma d'suquannana. Remember to pray: Give us, this day, our daily bread. Give us the life energy from our earth mother, to nourish us, in body, mind and spirit, here, now, today. Amen
Thank you. Thank you!!! You are so right about the agricultural issues. I was aware of this during my development as well. Watching what my dad endured working in manufacturing caused me to think of those issues more. (It was hard to witness.) I was a young organizer when agri business started to take hold in farming communities. So many families lost their way of life as the corporations took over their land. That included the epidemic of farmer suicides during that time.
It was good for you to remind me on this.
Further, the rise of agribusiness certainly has had an effect in the arrival of Maga among the farmers. We need those folks to turn things back around and reclaim our democracy and our planet!
Welcome home! I think you’re right. This darkness that we see is only a setup for the light, and I’m seeing a lot of light. For example, during the 50501 marches, people set up stations for people to donate food. If FEMA didn’t come through, ordinary people donated to fire and flood victims. And celebrities like Ozzy Osbourne gave $200 MILION to three charities: Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Acorn Children’s Hospice, and Cure Parkinson’s. I believe we will see more of this.
You suggest that folks have new conversations. Ah, but how?
I suggest that we do well to conduct conversations that help people we are talking with connect the dots… whatever the relevant dots may be. In other words, learning conversations.
Becoming an Evolutionary Catalyst provides a model you may find useful.
The focus of the article is on helping people connect the dots and see the need to reduce industrial production in order to avoid the worst of climate change and other ecological destruction. This is not your theme, but you might see ways to adapt the approach.
Specifically, I mention a couple of tools to empower people to conduct personal conversations.
Our challenge is evolutionary. We must become the kind of people that can create and enjoy a compassionate ecologically sustainable world. Among other things, this involves improving child-rearing, and hence reducing trauma. But it also means collectively operating within the Earth’s capacity to support us.
How We Can Align to Create a Viable Society outlines an administratively simple way groups can align to affect public consciousness. And we do need to elevate public consciousness, or business as usual will take us to its dismal conclusion.
Well said. Imagination is a spiritual power. I have worked for decades as part of the movement to evolve beyond our extractive capitalist economic system and I can't tell you how many times I've been accused of being a socialist. I say I don't support either capitalism or socialism in the forms we've seen them. We need an entirely new system suited to the times we are living in and the problems we are dealing with. We need to envision and create something entirely new. I look forward to chatting with you in our Substack Live session later this morning!
Thank you Marianne for giving me a framework for working against this regime and more broadly the descent of Humanity into a barrel that is teeming with rotten apples.
The only way to fix the world is to resist - including the temptation to dump the barrel and kick these rotten apples into chunks and sauce.
The gift that conscious people have is the ability to step back from being Reactionary - and take this Trigger as a chance to decide how to address the underlying problem.
Most people are Kind - and more are Afraid and/or extremely anxious or even mentally ill as a result of this barrage of bad news and horrible Humans.
I will never lose hope nor will I stop speaking the truth to power or try to inform the brain washed. If we lose hope - this truly is hopeless
here’s to creating a whole new timeline, where the seeds we’ve been gently planting suddenly sprout and spectacularly overtake the slow and laborious work of destruction we’ve been witnessing for decades 😍
Thanks Marianne! 🙏 The wisdom of nature: quantum transformations are nature’s tradition; problems are evolutionary drivers; crises precede transformation; through synergy and greater cooperation, nature creates new whole systems out of separate parts, cooperating synergistic whole systems. - from Barbara Marx Hubbard’s Our Story https://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/8380/Our-Story, worth a watch! *** "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” - R. Buckminster Fuller *** “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” – Albert Einstein *** “When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the system to a higher order.” - Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine *** "Be the change that you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi *** Ways to take political action are assembled here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-OLf7UDEfIdPpyov1QaKGDHP7_82PYAp9lILVYr_gRs/edit *** For inspiring ideas on creating the world we know in our hearts is possible: http://www.consciousevolutionboston.org/The-World-We-Know-In-Our-Hearts-Is-Possible.html
So true. The democrats prioritise their donors, too. Many corporations donate to both parties. We must limit donating and voting to registered voters, disarm lobbyists, and gut Citizens United. Then and only then will this country be for and by the people.
Yes, we need new beginnings to EVOLVE a beautiful world. We need to co-create, and evolve, a world of harmony (more than 'justice') Harmony as a quality of the divine is a sign of balance (the balances of true justice), which is full of beauty, and of power. We, the people, you, and me, and all of us, Hu myn beings, need to become the 'Founding Fathers, and Mothers, and Children' of a better government of the people, by the people and for the people. Let us remember to make all people, and our planet as priority over profit for a few, politics, and special interest powerful. Pray, be aware, become educated, and plant tiny seeds of peace, in your heart, and in our world. Many tiny actions can and shall change our hearts, and our world, to become more full of beauty, balance and harmony. Amen.
Yes, a Brave New World. Personally, I prefer non-engagement with the dysfunctional world and to be left alone to create paintings and other works of art. All my work is like a hobby to me after a long career making other people rich. Thank goodness for Social Security and no stress. Life is good that way.
Yes, we need to bring forth a beautiful new world! I imagine our Founding Fathers and Mothers mapping out a vision for a rebirth and whispering in our ears, seeding our dreams, and shouting across the veils, waves of strength, encouragement and direction.
Yes to this. Resisting is essential—but if all we do is resist, we risk becoming shaped by what we oppose. The deeper work is generating: new systems, new stories, new patterns of belonging. And that starts in the small daily choices that ripple outward.
They want us exhausted. But we’re stubborn in our hope.
They want compliance. We answer with imagination.
Let’s keep making beauty louder than fear.
We need to push back at everything that Trump has done … We need to give HOPE to the hopeless … and NEW SOLUTIONS to those difficult problems that have always been with us … and RAISE the expectations … that this country can truly have … a new birth of FREEDOM !!!
You know, Bill, I wonder if it is necessarily that the solutions are new. Rather, are they solutions we have failed to embrace in the past? I was born in the heart of the US manufacturing hub in 1958. During my youth, I watched industry after industry displace well paid working people by moving jobs to cheaper labor markets - first from industrial states to right-to-work states, then into the developing world and countries without comprehensive labor and environmental protections. We saw the repeal of the fairness doctrine in the 1970s that required differing political points of view be given equal time on our airwaves. We saw a change in long standing financial oversight that allowed corporations to institute the stock buy back schemes, so rampant today. In 2000 the Green party screamed from the mountain tops that both the Republicans and the Deomcrats had sold their souls to big oil and corporate America. But how dare any of us vote for Ralph Nader.
(Oops wasn't quite done, yet.) We the people have been saying and screaming and voting for people like Marianne for years. My opinion is that the Democrats lost the labor movement when they bellied up to the corporate trothand screwed the working people. First, they had Reagan who looked and sounded really good while he screwed the very people who became his Regan Democrats. It didn't end there as rhe 1990s saw the demise of pensions and full tome jobs while the stock market went through the roof during the Clinton administration. In my opinion that's how we got here to Trump. Like Regan, minus the suave and debonair, he told working people he cared about them and those mean old corporations had screwed them and moved their jobs overseas. We wonder how we ended up here. We gutted public education of civics study. Now we have the rise of authoritarianism. And we don't know why?To riff off The Church Lady... Could it be GREED!!!???
Agreed, as I was born mid 1950s, I observed the same. Corporations abandoned communities, to move jobs to maximize profits. Small family farms were out competed by agri industry corporations, some owned by foreign investors. Local stewardship of the land, by generations of ranchers, and farmers, and indigenous people, was replaced by distant boards of corporations. Land became a commodity for buy/sale, and to extract profit. The effects on communities, and eco-systems has been devastating. Climate change is one sign. We, the people, need to care again more for our 'home' lands, and each other. We need to love one another, and care for our Earth Mother, who nourishes all of us.
Hablan lachma d'suquannana. Remember to pray: Give us, this day, our daily bread. Give us the life energy from our earth mother, to nourish us, in body, mind and spirit, here, now, today. Amen
Thank you. Thank you!!! You are so right about the agricultural issues. I was aware of this during my development as well. Watching what my dad endured working in manufacturing caused me to think of those issues more. (It was hard to witness.) I was a young organizer when agri business started to take hold in farming communities. So many families lost their way of life as the corporations took over their land. That included the epidemic of farmer suicides during that time.
It was good for you to remind me on this.
Further, the rise of agribusiness certainly has had an effect in the arrival of Maga among the farmers. We need those folks to turn things back around and reclaim our democracy and our planet!
Welcome home! I think you’re right. This darkness that we see is only a setup for the light, and I’m seeing a lot of light. For example, during the 50501 marches, people set up stations for people to donate food. If FEMA didn’t come through, ordinary people donated to fire and flood victims. And celebrities like Ozzy Osbourne gave $200 MILION to three charities: Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Acorn Children’s Hospice, and Cure Parkinson’s. I believe we will see more of this.
Hi Marianne,
Yes, of course.
You suggest that folks have new conversations. Ah, but how?
I suggest that we do well to conduct conversations that help people we are talking with connect the dots… whatever the relevant dots may be. In other words, learning conversations.
Becoming an Evolutionary Catalyst provides a model you may find useful.
https://medium.com/@andrewgaines/becoming-an-evolutionary-communicator-and-an-evolutionary-catalyst-030a57ab5222
The focus of the article is on helping people connect the dots and see the need to reduce industrial production in order to avoid the worst of climate change and other ecological destruction. This is not your theme, but you might see ways to adapt the approach.
Specifically, I mention a couple of tools to empower people to conduct personal conversations.
Our challenge is evolutionary. We must become the kind of people that can create and enjoy a compassionate ecologically sustainable world. Among other things, this involves improving child-rearing, and hence reducing trauma. But it also means collectively operating within the Earth’s capacity to support us.
How We Can Align to Create a Viable Society outlines an administratively simple way groups can align to affect public consciousness. And we do need to elevate public consciousness, or business as usual will take us to its dismal conclusion.
https://app.box.com/s/2y2jfjbuxyojl6ln6ftuq9u0n4xhmuue
With warm regards,
Andrew Gaines
Andrew.Gaines@stableplanetalliance.org
Well said. Imagination is a spiritual power. I have worked for decades as part of the movement to evolve beyond our extractive capitalist economic system and I can't tell you how many times I've been accused of being a socialist. I say I don't support either capitalism or socialism in the forms we've seen them. We need an entirely new system suited to the times we are living in and the problems we are dealing with. We need to envision and create something entirely new. I look forward to chatting with you in our Substack Live session later this morning!
Cylvia, I was sorry I missed your conversation with Marianne today. I like what you are saying, here.
Thank you Marianne for giving me a framework for working against this regime and more broadly the descent of Humanity into a barrel that is teeming with rotten apples.
The only way to fix the world is to resist - including the temptation to dump the barrel and kick these rotten apples into chunks and sauce.
The gift that conscious people have is the ability to step back from being Reactionary - and take this Trigger as a chance to decide how to address the underlying problem.
Most people are Kind - and more are Afraid and/or extremely anxious or even mentally ill as a result of this barrage of bad news and horrible Humans.
I will never lose hope nor will I stop speaking the truth to power or try to inform the brain washed. If we lose hope - this truly is hopeless
Beautiful!
here’s to creating a whole new timeline, where the seeds we’ve been gently planting suddenly sprout and spectacularly overtake the slow and laborious work of destruction we’ve been witnessing for decades 😍
Welcome home Marianne! Thank you for awakening the revolutionary spirit of the American people.
We need to awake the EVOLUTIONARY spirit. Revolving on a circle returns us to same problems.
Thanks Marianne! 🙏 The wisdom of nature: quantum transformations are nature’s tradition; problems are evolutionary drivers; crises precede transformation; through synergy and greater cooperation, nature creates new whole systems out of separate parts, cooperating synergistic whole systems. - from Barbara Marx Hubbard’s Our Story https://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/8380/Our-Story, worth a watch! *** "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” - R. Buckminster Fuller *** “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” – Albert Einstein *** “When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the system to a higher order.” - Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine *** "Be the change that you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi *** Ways to take political action are assembled here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-OLf7UDEfIdPpyov1QaKGDHP7_82PYAp9lILVYr_gRs/edit *** For inspiring ideas on creating the world we know in our hearts is possible: http://www.consciousevolutionboston.org/The-World-We-Know-In-Our-Hearts-Is-Possible.html
YES, it is so, and so it is! Thank you for expressing this in words! Words are the
molds into which the creative substance of consciousness flows!
Thanks, Marianne. Imagine our world if you had won the Presidency? We would have had Department of Peace instead of War❤️
So true. The democrats prioritise their donors, too. Many corporations donate to both parties. We must limit donating and voting to registered voters, disarm lobbyists, and gut Citizens United. Then and only then will this country be for and by the people.
Yes, we need new beginnings to EVOLVE a beautiful world. We need to co-create, and evolve, a world of harmony (more than 'justice') Harmony as a quality of the divine is a sign of balance (the balances of true justice), which is full of beauty, and of power. We, the people, you, and me, and all of us, Hu myn beings, need to become the 'Founding Fathers, and Mothers, and Children' of a better government of the people, by the people and for the people. Let us remember to make all people, and our planet as priority over profit for a few, politics, and special interest powerful. Pray, be aware, become educated, and plant tiny seeds of peace, in your heart, and in our world. Many tiny actions can and shall change our hearts, and our world, to become more full of beauty, balance and harmony. Amen.
Yes, a Brave New World. Personally, I prefer non-engagement with the dysfunctional world and to be left alone to create paintings and other works of art. All my work is like a hobby to me after a long career making other people rich. Thank goodness for Social Security and no stress. Life is good that way.