Jim's Daily Rant. Stationary Planet

Do you remember the warm feeling you got every time you watched the 1951 movie The Day the Earth Stood Still? You remember the movie; the one where a spaceman comes to earth and says that any aggressor country will be punished by a robot for attacking their neighbor. It was your gut telling you that "this is right, this is the way it should be".

The problem is if we all feel that it is so right then why don't we do it today? What's stopping us? The thing that felt so right was that we knew that humans should not continue to use their might to lord over others; that might does not make right. Yet why can't we make ourselves enforce this universally? I believe that there are two core beliefs holding us back. One is the belief that we are separate from each other and the harm we do to others in no way effects us. The other is the belief that there is a shortage of everything. If we stop all aggression then we may not be able to get "our share" sometime in the future. We don't want to close that door.

We have an opportunity, after the financial crash, to create a reality in which there could be no shortage of anything so that all fear should disappear. Since we will be cooperating and sharing alike we will be connected, the opposite of being separate. In this environment we can indeed install the principle of that classic science fiction movie that makes us feel good when we watch it. Except now we will feel good about ourselves all of the time!