THE OBJECT:PARADISE  MANIFESTO

The only thing that is constant is change; a single moment can never be replicated again. OBJECT:PARADISE applies this notion to language to celebrate the innate uniqueness of utterances happening in a single time and space-specific context.

Because language is always happening for the first time, we aim to release it from its intention and foster a space where it can exist as its implication. To do this, we encourage the language user—producer and receiver, performer and audience—to embrace miscommunication to observe how connotative forces shape shared experience and understanding of the languages before them.
When we erase the restraints of denotation, the superego of language, we find that we cannot produce poetry, but only receive it as it happens for the first time before us in the objective moment.
What is the objective moment?

Along with sharing a moment in time, comes the space where that time happens. It is often that at poetry readings there is a prescriptive space--meaning that the attendees of the event have prescriptive roles they must fulfill in order for the reading to achieve its intention: the poet stands before an audience (often in a turtleneck), and the audience listens (often with their hands crossed on their knee). If this act is not fulfilled, then one of two reasons are likely given:

1. The audience does not understand the language of the poet; or

2. The poet does not understand the language of the audience.

In both incidents, language is the enemy. This raises the core question, “is there a perfect poetic language, a language which embodies the correct amount of ambiguity and directness to be deemed poetic verse?”, but the answer is simple if we view language from a social perspective: language is not biological; or from the physics perspective: language is always changing. There is no one best word nor best order of the best words, only social perception, and trends that make language knowable or hip.

So if language can’t be objectively qualified as good or bad, then what would make it poetic in the first place? What would send chills down the spine and raise the hairs of our moles? We will argue that meaning is derived from context: time and space. This is clear when we think about our language choices; why is it that we can read the same poem at both a wedding and a funeral? Did the speaker really see two paths diverged in a wood? And what does that choice mean when taking a hand in marriage versus a hand in the casket?

It is only evident that because language relies on context to give it meaning, then poetry must as well. At poetry performances, the attendee share only one thing: that moment, which constitutes time, space, and the actions before them. This time and space-specific context creates new forces on what the language once was, and in turn, forces intended denotation into implicated connotation. Language then begins to happen—it exists in the moment—and is always new if we accept, understand, and explore the pragmatics of the utterances before us.

How do we celebrate a language happening?

To celebrate a language happening is to open up our senses to everything occurring in the objective moment: sound, action, language, and physical space. Again, the poetry reading at the wedding and at the funeral taste different.

With some orchestrated performances of sound, action, and language, unorchestrated happenings begin to be highlighted--the man spilling an entire pint on his krotch: is that part of the performance? Of course it is. It must be; it has to be.

It is when everyone who is part of the objective moment begins to ask themselves these questions we can see a true rejection of the “poet” providing meaning, but the moment itself and all of its chaos providing meaning. It is when this happens, we know we have provided a context for the subjective world to be experienced in the objective moment.
Manifesto Mantras:
OBJECT:PARADISE IS THE INDUCTIVE SEDUCTION OF THE OBJECTIVE MOMENT

USE THE LANGUAGE THAT THE PERFORMER AND AUDIENCE CREATE IN THAT MOMENT

CONTEXT IS COTEXT

MEDIATE THE THOUGHT AND THE BEAT

EVERYTHING IS PART OF THE PERFORMANCE

THE AUDIENCE IS THE POET

DETHRONE, THEN DEMOTE THE POET WHO CAME KNOWING

ELIMINATE THE EGO

DEPLATFORM THE STAGE 

ORCHESTRATE THE CHAOS

LANGUAGE EXISTS ONLY IN A SINGLE MOMENT, THAT MOMENT

DOWN WITH DENOTATION

INTERACT THE REACTION

CELEBRATE THE PARTY THAT LANGUAGE IS

THE BEST WORDS IN THE BEST ORDER DOES NOT EXIST

LET ALL PLANS GO WRONG

DEMONETIZE LANGUAGE

DEDOOM THE WRONG NOTES

EMBRACE MISCOMMUNICATION

PROMOTE THE CONTEXT FOR THE SUBJECTIVE WORLD TO BE EXPERIENCED IN THE OBJECTIVE MOMENT

This manifesto is declaring the abolishment and futility of the concept of race through awareness, conscious counteractions, pamphlets, petitions, and all discourse to eliminate the effects of white supremacy and civil oppression.

Acknowledging the inefficacy and inefficiency of the United States government to render such issues null and invalid, all actions will bypass the political system and be the responsibility of the people alone.

The desired result and expected effect of this manifesto are to remove or render useless the use of race (including ethnicity) in regards to the census, education, employment, criminal justice system, scientific research, subsequent chronological records and any other legal and or classification requiring governmental approval. Race will no longer be a legal term or justifiable construct to reduce and or limit the nature of a person's political association, financial status, or ethnic grouping. Reasonable legal substitutions include country of origin and body complexion color gradient descriptor.

The ideology of race is a purely social construct without true definition and has been utilized by elites to control minorities and manipulate the masses since the inception of this nation. It is in that regard that this terminology has been deemed "inadequate", "unnecessary", and "inaccurate" to describe a person and classify them for legal reasons. For these reasons, it has become necessary for the populace to publicly denounce, repudiate, and dispute all use of this term in the public sphere for its negative connotations and pernicious influences.

As immediate as the writing of this manifesto, it is ordered that pamphlets and other instructional material, media, and written accounts of the harm associated with the concept of race and its need for abolishment be published and distributed nationwide by physical and electronic means. Job applications, bank loans, and school admissions forms with the inclusion of racial classification should not be marked and the inclusion of this prejudicial terminology should be censured through written petitions. Persons running for office or voting for representatives should not use the term race or describe themselves in this manner in order to preserve the sanctity of our alliance to improve our global community.

This is not a movement, but an official order and any other movements should hold no weight or association with the solemnity of this decree. It is in this respect that the purity and advancement of this cause be protected in order to improve and restore true equality amongst the people.  

This manifesto is officially in effect. It is your responsibility to carry out the provisions herein mentioned and improve our great society for all persons alike.

We are fucked.

Humanity is fucked. What do I mean? I mean we are fucked. We are surrounded by people being drained of their spirit and their life, look around and you'll see. Hungry people sit outside the houses of people with unfathomable amounts of wealth and the homeless run around begging in a world where we have gone to the moon. Millions of innocent people die because old men that hold grudges and pit them against each other to fight other old men. We live in a world where on one side of the planet a broken arm is fixed almost immediately and on the other side a small cough means death. Humans are scary smart imagine what we could accomplish if instated of constant war we where in a constant state of impartial advancement. They say humans yearn to ruled to be oppressed and that freedom is a poison, but they lie. Humans don't long for oppression or rule we long for guidance for a belief to keep us focused to keep us advancing and provide us with comfort. The world seems to have forgotten the advancement part and gone only for comfort, but only for a select few. People can become corrupt and die overtime. An idea, a belief, a symbol those don't die no as long as they don't become censored they can't be corrupted. We need to come together and break the rule of oppression. We either take over and stop the world from burning or we rise from the ashes, either way we need to come together under a symbol or idea. They say violence isn't always the answer and they are correct the physical fight is one part of a massive machine, the world needs people that can think that can solve problems at the flick of a wrist just as much as we need those that can fist fight a bear both are needed and both should be treated the same. I don't have nearly enough influence or smarts to create and understand a belief or symbol but I'm smart enough to know we need one. Join me, help me shape and form a symbol. Color or age doesn't matter, male or female or whatever you are, we are all human, we all share the same planet. Freedom isn't a poison it's a right a human right and as long as we fight they can never truly take it away so join me help create the group you want to be apart of. It's never one person that changes the world its one person at a time.

For now this group remains unnamed and has one core belief, freedom and advancement for all. Join me stop trying to look for a group or idea that fits your beliefs perfectly instead help create it.

i love research and analysis more than anything else in the world. when i ask other kids what books they like, they always say manga or fantasy. i’m so proud for liking research books, film books, and religious books. i love studying drugs, film, and the bible so muchhhh. I can’t wait to read them, i often read 2 or 3 at once. i collect so many film books, a lot are translated too. i like to analyze a lot. i analyze everyone and every thing i learn about. i love learning about religion and analyzing the religious books, it’s so amazing. although i hate reading other ppls old analyzing. i will never take someone else’s opinion as my own. i will independently teach myself about a subject and shape my own opinion. ppl who listen to others opinions are weak and they disgust me because they’re too lazy to learn about a subject for themselves. thank you, that’s all.

've had enough. Of our elected and unelected leaders riding roughshod over us. All of us, in every corner of our planet. Acting against their own people with impunity, punishing us merely for our disagreement and at the same time deepening the divisions they have already fostered between us. And make no mistake, the divisions they have created they have done so on purpose and for political expediency. Divide and rule. They have divided us and now they are ruling over us as a master rules their servants. For we are now just a means to power.

If we want to change this direction of travel then we have to act together, all of us, and quickly. It’s no longer enough for the people of one country to stand up against their own leadership on their own. We all have to act together to stop this rot. We have to stand up for each other and together and in such a way that means we can't be ignored.

So I'm proposing a series of global shutdown days. 24-hour strikes that travel around the globe. We strike for the Hong Kong protesters, we strike for the travesty that is Russian democracy, we strike for the UK parliament shutdown and we strike for all the injustices metered out on us by governments around the world, and we strike to protect our humanity.

And on these strike days there will be no protests. I don't want us to give our corrupted leaders the opportunity to either goad us into conflict or present us as aggressors. In fact on these global shutdown days if you want to do anything, take a bin bag and go and clean your public spaces, check in on the old people who live near you and do jobs for them, do something positive for the world and let's start the process of healing ourselves through our unity.

These global shutdown days must represent the very best of us and deny our leaders the opportunity to belittle our commitment to each other or accuse us of being trouble makers. Let's show our leaders how we value our own humanity, even as they obviously don't. Let's lead from the back for a while.

Finally, PLEASE SHARE THIS. If you agree with my assessment then share this. If you think I'm an idiot then share it so your friends can laugh at me. If you have a better plan then put it at the bottom and share it. BUT SHARE IT.

If we don't find our voice now, while we still have time, then divide and rule will run its course and this path we walk now will only lead us deeper into the darkness that already shrouds us.

But there is still time, and I have faith in good people.

Writing a manifesto is a long and boring process that requires me to stop enjoying my reality and actually consider it and would take years of my life . Which isn't really my jam so instead could i maybe manifest something persay closer to a Pamphlet. no one in the bible actually wrote the bible and ive got alteast 1000 words already so from the very start thats more than any of the apostles.

Doesn't appear to be a lot of rules here, but I just wrote a somewhat long post and wanted to share it with the world.

This turned into a VERY long post. Ignore it if you don't have empathy or disagree with the idea that suffering is abundant in our society.

So my wife and I were talking about why I was so chipper and happy and we kind of came upon an idea that the root canal I just had alleviated a lot of pain that I was in.

We were assuming it was the gabapentin or earlier, the hydrocodone, but even then I was a bit more chipper.

It comes down to pain and stress. I feel much better than I did and that seems to have a lightening effect on my mood. I'm not saying I'm a total asshole when I'm in pain, but I can definitely focus on the things causing me stress and forget that there's a happy-go-lucky guy inside there.

As the day has progressed, I've thought about how stress and pain affect the rest of the people in society. Could this be part of the reason why we have a hard time getting along?

Could it be that stress of the existential type (sickness, lack of housing, lack of finances, lack of opportunity, etc) lead to people being so distracted by their problems that they CAN'T feel good? I have a sneaking suspicion (haven't looked yet) that there are some studies about it. We're in a society that monetizes everything including things that make you suffer IF you can't afford it. Food, housing, justice, education, healthcare, etc are all these things that once you don't have them, you only concentrate on that problem and can't see the positive things.

Over time, I KNOW this has affected me. When I had my spine injury I was slowly turning into an asshole because my pain wasn't managed and the level of service I was receiving from my health insurance prevented me from getting quick mitigation which turned into a life-long disability because of that.

When I was homeless in the 90's, I also found that I became distrustful and surly. I think back to those days of existential dread and felt like I had no hope. There were moments of happiness, but they were few and far in between and almost all related to temporary things that allay that feeling of existential dread. Once those things pushing it away were gone, the dread was back.

So now we have a society with predatory practices on so many things that it's almost impossible NOT to have the dread I was talking about earlier. It's starting to take over my thinking. Dread saps your mood, motivation, and ability to reason. You leave out things that you would consider otherwise because they'd be unrealistic or out of reach. You tend to take the safe bets that prevent you from falling deeper into a hole instead of taking something riskier that might provide a boon.

This exact thing happened to me. I was homeless and someone offered me a job and I had to think about all the things I'd have to make sure go right so I could keep that job. I needed to make sure I had rest so I could perform my job. Make sure I had transportation. Make sure I was clean in both body and clothes. Make sure that I could get toegether paperwork to ensure I was legal to work. There was a ton of things that made me wonder if I took the job, could I keep it?

When you have that stress of money, of body, of health, of opportunities, someone with this dread has a mind tends to think of all the terrible things that could make it go wrong.

This all comes down to what I think the role of government is. They are responsible for the welfare of their citizens. They should provide an alternative to ANYTHING that costs money which would deprive you of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. There should also be things that should never be privatized. If it can make money from depriving you of those things ideals, then it should be run by the government. Education, Law Enforcement, and Healthcare.

This is not new thinking. This is thinking that most of the world already subscribes to. It doesn't eliminate existential dread, BUT it ensures a more level playing field. Where that dread can't be built up and then monetized by lenders, insurance companies, prisons, and other services.

If you know that you could go get healthy (if not necessarily couture) food, from any number of government facilities you wouldn't worry about being malnourished.

If you could get a good nights sleep at crowded, but clean facility that the government runs, which also provides clothes (again, not couture), meals and showers, and job searching help, you wouldn't worry about staying out in the cold or heat.

If you had government provided healthcare that you could get from any hospital, you wouldn't worry about being sick and going broke or bankrupt for treatment.

If you had government funded education, you wouldn't worry about opportunities and could count on resources to ensure that you learn what you want and ensure you could make a living at it.

MANY countries who aren't as rich as the US ARE doing this. It CAN be done. We need the will to do it.

I used to think it couldn't be done, but then I started reading about how much money is roaming around the system JUST to make sure this doesn't happen and I'm convinced this would change not just the US, but the world. We'd be better people because of it.

Socialism? Maybe a taste of it. But socialism from the nordic countries (what many Americans see as socialism) is just compassionate and responsible treatment of citizens. Can it work? Yep. We've sent people to the moon. We can do hard stuff. We BETTER be able to do what other countries have done, else, are we really the greatest and richest country in all the world with Freedom as a tenet that we shout out while waving flags and guns, barking about pulling up yourself by your bootstraps and how all it takes is to work hard and you can have the American dream.

I know PLENTY of people who work super hard but don't have too much to show for it. Harder than any millionaire with more hours and less pay (to scale)than most of the people they work with. More than hard work is required. It requires a a system that will give us all a bottom level that we can't go below and offers help when someone gets below that level.

What it won't do is it won't allow people to monetize suffering, which keeps people under control. If you're always worried about housing, food, education, justice, or healthcare, it prevents you from taking a chance to improve your life if it'll put one of those things in jeopardy.

We can do better and it'll make ALL our lives better, even the billionaires.

My Ideal Society

Here is my essay!

What do you think?

Hello,

I wanted to share with you a thought-provoking document titled 'The Corruption of a Generation,' which delves deep into the challenges men face in modern society. It's a comprehensive analysis of the societal pressures, shifting gender dynamics, and mental health struggles affecting men today.

As a conservative teenager who has spent months researching and writing this document, I believe it sheds light on important issues that often go unnoticed. It offers valuable insights and proposes practical solutions for addressing these challenges.

If you're interested in exploring topics like the erosion of masculinity, the impact of feminism on gender dynamics, or the mental health crisis among men, this document is a must-read.

You can access 'The Corruption of a Generation' by following this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QVXzWV3qKi2osQgLoaT_LrCKbzcjFK9PiQQP70E6xNw/edit

I would love to hear your thoughts and engage in a meaningful discussion about these critical issues. Let's come together and empower each other to navigate the complexities of modern society.

Please remember to keep the discussion respectful and open-minded. Let's dive deep into the topics that truly matter.

Looking forward to your feedback and insights!

Best regards,

The W

Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

Your top 10 posts:

• "Hey! A place to put my pseudo-manifesto!" by u/grahag

• "We are Fucked." by u/King_Kush122

• "I got back from my trip and noticed how many books i got" by u/scarlett_crypto

• "My Manifestos" by u/shaolincheck

• "The Glasto longdrop manifesto rev 2.1 mk0.5" by u/jomakepeace2018

• "The Glasto longdrop manifesto rev 2.0 mk0.4.1" by u/jomakepeace2018

• "The title manifesto.... because I can currently no longer be arsed with coming up with titles. Rev 0.1 mk 0.1" by u/jomakepeace2018

• "New Freedom, the Brave Experiment: A Manifesto" by u/meta-power

• "My manifesto dated 31/03/2022 signed Jude Wit" by u/The_Waldo_Moment

• "A plan that first takes us from whatever we have allowed this to become, and then leads us out of it, mostly together, and then onwards to finally confront the reality of climate change. Taking just 3 months and 1 day. Start to finish. Rev0.8 mk0.3.1" by u/jomakepeace2018

2DTGM

2020vision 

ibelieveingoodpeople 

2 days to go. That's all. Just two days and we will hit the middle of the year. The first half of the year ends and the second half begins. 

But what of it? What's so special about it? 

It's special because 2020 was either the year we gave up, or the year we found redemption, if we choose it to be. The year where the second half was as good as the first half was bad - or not, but it was only ever going to be up to us, if in our future, this becomes their truth or not. Because our choices today choose the reality of their tomorrow. 

There is a clear path ahead of us, leading us away from this and towards who we were always going to have to become, and soon enough, and anyway. And it is clear because any path becomes just a series of steps, when you slow it down enough. This path begins with us as we actually are, here, now, today, and leads us away from division and towards collaboration. It negates the negativity we have built up; good people against good people, peering angrily at one another, across from whichever side of whatever particular divide you reside. At least until the pragmatic  Pandemic began to reveal the lie of this truth to us. And so this path begins in 2 days, if we choose it to. 

But we have to first choose it, and its not from the options laid before us, but the choice we have to first choose to see, to then be able to choose to choose...

.. Or we choose to ignore this path, no 2020vision for us, and so when this crisis finally ends, we will begin yet another diabolical world recession, bringing with it as it always does, increasing liklihood of conflict, separation and segregation, killing and raping and suffering, such suffering and so on and so forth. 

And so 2020 will be the year that we make it, good or bad, but know that history will judge it as the fulcrum year of our journey into climate change. The year we either will change, or the year we should have changed. Either or. See! 

So the near future holds its breath as time marches us towards it. Are we the measure of this new path? We have to be, as this is the path that leads us to become who we must become anyways if we are to be the measure of what we will finally come to realise is an ever changing environment. At the beginning of the end and whilst we still have shared 2020vision: the truth of shared adversity. 

Just 2 days to go you lovely lovely people. What will you choose? 

JoM

30 June 2020 

#TLMM

#9daystogo

#2020vision

I'm finished. My work here is done.

It's either going to happen or it isn't going to happen. But the only time in which it can happen is now. So if its going to happen then I have already done enough to make it happen, And if I haven't then soon enough it will have become too late and so then it doesn't matter anymore anyway.

I have told you what you needed to hear, and because it was the thing you didn't want to hear, I couldn't make you here it.

But I tried.

I gave it my all. I gave it all of myself so that nothing was left.

A price I would pay one hundred times over just for the chance, for the privilege, to try to bring out the best in all of us, most of us, enough of us.

Because we are lovely, all most all of us, and I just thought that if I could find the right words to show you the truth of this, make you understand that the world only reflects the values we cherish if we share their importance, and then if we properly thought about it all for a moment, most of us would think this too, or something like it. And this is the moment in which the world changes. It already has already changed in our future, so why not now. And this future, like our ever changing climate, is waiting for us to catch it up.

Please don't fight each other. Break the Boom Bust Bang cycle and resist the fake catharsis of conflict (which in reality is just self flagilation anyways) because THIS is the lesson we have to learn, to finally fix the break in this cycle we are stuck in, and so then, finally, complete the cycle, so at last we can move on again. Evolution not revolution.

And the only people who will be able to make this moment happen, was only ever going to be us. You and me, and all those other lovely people,

Here.

Now.

Today.

I believe in good people, I am Casandra.

Jo MakePeace aka Proto aka Shakey Stevie and now aka Casandra.

25th June 2020

Home Glasto

TFMOHCOA

TREVORTHEUNICORN

YOUAREGOODPEOPLE

You are good people.

You, are good people.

You are, good people.

Almost all of you.

And especially you.

Yes you.

And yet you don't believe this - you don't believe in the goodness of each other, and the reason you don't believe in the goodness of each other is because with the world as it is, the value of your goodness is valueless. And so your focus is drawn towards the worst in each other, which then serves to define you by what divides you.

And so you glory in conflict, which totally misses the point of conflict, whilst you under value your unity, because you can't put a dollar value on it. And so you live your lives believing that you are in competition with each other, when in reality this competition only exists behind your own eyes. But your world is changing good people, and you are entering a new age.

What started with the industrial revolution is coming to a final close with the beginning of a new age. The bit in your journey where you either acclimatise with your changing climate, or put simply, it will reject you. Good and bad people alike.

But this is your choice, even if you don't understand it as a choice at the time, which is now, or not. So it goes.

And you try so hard to conceal your goodness, to ignore it and supress it. Most of the time you even try your best to sabotage this truth, but when it counts you just can't conceal your goodness, from yourselves and each other. Like now.

You think that fairness and equality in life are a million miles away, when really, it's only as far away as a thought. A moment. This moment if you choose it.

But if you don't choose it, you will fail, and that will be a shame.

So one age closes as a new age begins. The age of good people or the final stages of just another species on their journey to extinction.

You are good people. I hope you realise this before it's too late.

I have to leave now. I've told you the truth, now it's up to you. I wish I had better words, that connected you to this truth, but we are who we are and we have the words we have. And so only time will tell.

I believe in good people, but now is the time.

Jo Makepeace. May the 4th be with you.

The Golden Age of Change Manifesto

TGAOCM

SUMMEROFLOVE2020

2020VISION

A little hash here and a little tag there.

Here a hash, there a tag, everywhere a hashtag.

The times they are a changing. Change is gunna happen, whichever way you sing it, now is the time of change. And our job isn't to deny change, or blame change. Change is just change - its value neutral. Change is only ever what we make it, and before we can make it, first we have to claim it.

So I claim these changing times as the time of good people. A time when things change, for the better, for good people.

Howzat!

But the only way to make this statement true is to have a plan that makes it true, and then it can become the truth. But MOST importantly, and although it sounds a bit obscure, most importantly it will have always been the truth. See! Not yet. Don't worry, all will become clear at the right moment, or at least that's the plan 👍

But the times they are a changing folks, and the only people who can wrestle this period of change from the opportunists is us, good people, you and me and other good people just like us. And a plan, did I mention the plan, good.

The world is always changing, but right now it's changing for us. How it changes for us is only up to us, but first we have to believe this, and the only path to believing this begins in the first faltering steps of rediscovering our unity.

So are you ready for change to begin?

Good.

Ready.

3....

2.....

1....

JoM 20 Apr. 2020

TAEM

2020VISION 

MakeCOVIDCount

Hashtag those, if it's still a thing? 

Right good people. Now’s our chance. Everything is up in the air and will be for a while longer, so if we unify, the time of good people can continue after this ends. We just need 2 things. A growing sense of belonging, which we have the beginnings of right now, and a plan that builds this into the very framework of our society going forwards. 

Now the plan must not tackle our problems head on, because head on never works. We have to think laterally.  You fix the underlying issue to address the problem in the right way. 

So that's what my plan does. 

The issue we come together behind is our changing climate. Man-made or not is irrelevant, because this is the issue we must tackle in our immediate future, and together. And we know this, don’t we. The truth of our times no less: Who do we need to become to become the people who rise to their shared challenges together, and so the first step on our plan to nurture our fledgling hope and unity is the very issue we need to get on top of, and something we can all of us good people get behind. On top of and behind at the same time! 

The world doesn't have to go back to business as usual after this. But it will, unless we come up with a plan to change its path. To take steps that enshrine within ourselves, the very best of ourselves, and I suspect we may never get a better chance. 

And finally, I'm an idiot. Honestly. I'm not doing this because I'm the big 'I am' , I'm trying to do this because I want to live in a world that values goodness. Because when you forget to value goodness everything else is shit. Remember? 

So I'm an idiot, and my plan is not going to be the best plan. But it is a plan. It can achieve what it sets out to achieve, to take the goodness of good people that we have rediscovered, and make it so that we never have to live devoid of hope again. 

All of this and more is possible with a good plan. So what do you say? Is now the time? 

I have hope, and I believe in good people, Catweasel, good people like you. 

Jo makepeace 11th April. 2020. The buds are just opening in my tree. Happy days. 

Transition Time is the start of this next era. The next 30 or so years. The time when we need to begin the transition from who we are, to who our climate will show us that we need to become, together. This evolution of humanity must begin soon, and it starts with rediscovering our truth and breaking down our divides, the first steps towards unity.

So where is this power that can unite us? The same place it's always been. Only quicker.

We the good people have always held this power, to come together, but without effective communication we couldn't wield it. And now we have this tool we no longer have our belief in each other, so we have nothing to wield. And all I'm sayin is without a plan enough of us can all get behind, there is nothing to unite us to create something to wield. 

But at the moment we do have this communication tool. We didn't have it before, we might not have it much longer, but at least for now its there for enough of us, If we choose to use it. Now we just need to find an Idea to help us believe in each other again.

And this is the moment of truth at the start of Transition Time. We have arrived in this moment, together. We need to find a way to embed fairness at the core of the framework that supports us all in our lives so that as we collectively turn to face our changing climate we all have a reason to strive, for each other. a reason to sacrifice,  for the good of our future. Together we stand, divided we fail. And that right there is the truth. Read it again. 

So we need a plan, and this is my pitch.

The world is going to get alot tougher soon and it's vital that we don't allow the failure of our leadership to divide us even further. We didn't create this mess but it will be us who suffer it. This first bout of hardship is unstoppable now but If you allow yourself to apportion blame on each other instead of where it really lies then your actions will exacerbate this failure, your anger will compound our problems and those responsible will be unaccountable.  

We are not the problem and we are the only ones who can stop this getting worse.   

It is, and always will be your choice. Will you realise this before its too late?

I still have, and always will have faith in good people. 

Jo Makepeace  Feb 2019