Birthing a New World Order
Transforming the economy & keeping people healthy
It doesn’t matter who started the multiple crises in which we find ourselves. It matters is that and how we end them. It matters that we all (and I do mean ALL) allow ourselves to be affected by them so that we all (and I do mean ALL) can and will change our individual and collective perspectives and behavior. This is not about one person, it’s about every person. It’s not about one type of person or one demographic — it’s about a particular type of energy that runs through EVERY person.
It’s a difficult reality that you may not be the person who created your trauma, but you’re still the only person who can allow yourself to heal. The truth is that every single one of us has been participating in a system that got us to where we are today and every single one of us is responsible for changing this system and creating something new. The new Earth isn’t just going to show up one day. Like any birth, it requires some really hard work alongside some of the deepest surrender that exists.
Right now, women around the world are being forced to give birth alone. Don’t you think we owe it to them to put in the work right now to birth a truly new world order so that this doesn’t keep happening?
The crisis and chaos that everyone is feeling in some way today did not begin today. Many people have been living through it for years, decades, centuries, millennia … because the crisis in which we find ourselves today, more than anything else, is about power, sovereignty, responsibility, and reciprocity.
Ultimately, this crisis will end and the new order will begin when we change our collective understandings of power to embrace the intersection between reciprocity, relationship, and responsibility.
Please remove yourself from the political system as you know it because anyone with, like, 3 brain cells knows that it’s not working. Just a bunch of arguing and power play. Meanwhile, people are out here dying in the streets — as they always have been.
This is not the time to discuss the past affronts of the government and political system in the United States. Did it accept all humans as citizens? No. Was it still pretty radical? Yes. End of story. Even though everything that’s been has gotten us to where we are, nothing from the past matters at this point unless it’s going to move us from where we are to where we’re going. A lot of us — individually and collectively — want to sit and dwell on what happened in the past in the ways that won’t move us. And look — I have been that person, so I get it. And because I’ve been that person, I can attest to how unhelpful, damaging, and dangerous it can be. What’s done is done — the past can’t be changed. Unless it’s not moving and transforming you, you have to let it go.
So, let’s forget about politics and think about solutions.
The President of the United States wants to lift the stay-at-home ban to “get everyone back to work.” Meanwhile, Epidemiologists suggest that “getting everyone back to work” could have devastating consequences for our country’s population. And while I’ve said for over a decade in this work of predicting the social, economic, and political consequences of environmental change and global collapse (which is what we’re experiencing right now), if we continue on this trajectory, people are going to die. Even if we don’t, people are going to die.
But I feel I have a responsibility to ensure that as few people die as possible. Don’t you?
“But what about the economy?” you may be saying?
“Aren’t we headed to another version of the next Great Depression?”
Well … we could be. But it doesn’t have to be that way. That’s not our only option. The problem is that most people only know how to see the world’s current issues through the lens of the past (and usually from a very limited perspective of the past, at that), rather than seeing them through the lens of possibility.
To be a great innovator in any field, almost always, you must be able to develop solutions to the current problems from the future, not the present. You must put yourself in the future, so that you can understand the present as if it was happening in the past.
There’s a new reality opening up before us. We have options. But we have to approach this moment as a birth. There’s no ego in birth. There’s no pushing — but there’s also no real resting.
I’ll be sharing more each day, so please stay tuned …
