CapitaliShare

For the planet to survive we need a new mindset of cooperation and sharing, rather than compete and beat. Life is sacred and property but a loaned privilege, not the other way around as current societies are now run. The main objectives of our productive industries must be directed toward providing the necessary goods and services needed by humanity, not the bottom lines as encouraged by Wall Street speculators. Our human energies must be redirected to useful productive pursuits and away from the various parasitical industries of which we have an over abundance and can do without. Liberal arts and sciences should be supported because they help us to be human as developers of the future. Nation states are political units of humanity that exist for the fair administration and regulation of societies within their borders to assure peace and justice for all, not international warring bands.

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Looking Back From the 23rd Century

Once upon a time there was a great empire, far more powerful than that of ancient Rome. On the founding of this mighty empire, a tiny nation at the time, their professed ideals sent a charge of hope around the world. In a world ruled by kings and ruthless tyrants, here was a new nation that stood up for the rights of people. This tiny nation declared that all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights such as Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. It called all people free except the black people that some of them owned. The Blacks were not considered people because they were property. Almost a hundred years passed before the Blacks were declared a free people. Their freedom came at a great loss of life on both sides of a great Civil War.

Ownership Society, 2004, Ed Lucas

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Spark That Went Around the World

This is a fantasy but a story of what could someday come to be when enough people have a change of mindset and it all started by a small farmer of Seattle Pike Place Market.

George the Dreamer, a small truck farmer, sold his production of fruits and vegetables at the Seattle Pike Place Market. He got there early every Saturday morning and drew his lot for space and always hoped to end up on the main shopping thoroughfare that some people called Goodwin Way to honor one of the Market’s early pioneers even though the Historic District’s managing commission has thus far denied that honor to him for some bureaucratic reason. Mr. Goodwin built the main market structures that sheltered the farmers and their customers from Seattle’s bountiful rain.

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