Peter Panopoulos

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, countries around the world spend a total of $1.7 trillion a year on the military. $1.7 trillion. Think of what we could accomplish if even a fraction of this amount were redirected to more peaceful ends? The head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has said we could end the global food crisis for $30 billion a year. That’s less than two percent of what we spend on weapons.

Higher consciousness, unconditional love, is just the feeling that we are only here to care for one another on this terrible, beautiful voyage we’re on together. What else can we do? We’re just dust on a rock lit by a flame hurtling through the darkness. Where…

Why are unconscious mass psychoses sweeping the globe? Because the world that predatory capitalism made is indeed a cruel and hostile place — for many people, an unsurvivable one. Hence, they must create imaginary all-powerful protectors — dictators, authoritarians, even their own kids — to save them. When such people come together, as they can now thanks to technology — wham!! — the result is that one person’s shakily held delusion becomes a kind of immense, unbreakable, shared one. Collective psychosis is the result.