We might be different… The world might be different…

With climate change, vanishing water reserves and species, toxins and disease and war, and a President determined to exact loyalty to himself and intent on vengeance and enriching himself, demands from some conservatives that women shut up and produce more children in an already overpopulated world… we might be forgiven for wanting to explore how how we might start over, what we might cast aside, and what about humanity deserves to survive.

“The important thing is not to offer any specific hope of betterment but, by offering an imagined but persuasive alternative reality, to dislodge my mind, and so the reader’s mind, from the lazy, timorous habit of thinking that the way we live now is the only way people can live.”

The Wave in the Mind by Ursula K. Le Guin

Today, we are taught to accept that we only survive and thrive by elevating competition, power, and even selfishness as a tool for proving our worth. We accept that “survival of the fittest” allows the unfit to suffer because that is necessary. The destruction of the weak must be allowed. We are assured that no one expects people to “do the right thing,” but only what benefits that “onward and upward” trajectory that we teach as status quo. Society’s entire worldview privileges those benefits to the few over the rights of all people—a brutal amorality supported with convenient scientific “truths”.

What if that bias isn’t true or necessary? What could we be without competition driving us?

The world might be better, once we’re mostly gone.

Thank you for reading.

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