This song - which plays like it was written in response to the events of the past couple weeks - was actually written in 2014! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rJbvVX2ADQ
From my perspective, the "Another Way" Franti calls out for is to bring back "community"….
For millennia, humans lived successfully and sustainably in communities/tribes/clans -- in which the key to survival was to work together in trust, cooperation, and solidarity. There was safety, support, connection, caring and compassion within the group. Diversity was not just a strength, but a survival necessity: Each person in a community is like a separate organ in the body. The heart and liver provide equally crucial functions, just as the medicine woman and hunter provide equally crucial functions, just as the architect and the chef provide equally crucial functions: Diversity within community is crucial and complementary.
When community breaks down, so does the environment of trust, cooperation, safety, support, connection, and solidarity. Broken community engenders fear/mistrust, separation/division, competition, comparison/aggression/violence, disconnection/loneliness/depression and narcissism...all of which can make diversity no longer look complementary, or even make it look/feel like an enemy or threat. Sound familiar?
I believe this loss of something so essential to us, this loss of something for which we're hard-wired, this loss of a way of being that works not just for humans but for all life on the planet...makes both individual humans and the whole of humanity dysfunctional -- ill, violent, and perhaps even evil. The new challenges of this time are illuminating how our traditional ways of suppressing, distracting, escaping, and otherwise managing this illness of the psyche (borne of separation/division and the loss of community) are neither sustainable nor healthy alternatives -- neither personally nor collectively.
From this perspective, until we can re-create a human context of trust, cooperation, connection, safety and solidarity, we'll just continue creating systems, structures and "solutions" from the old/current context of fear/mistrust, competition, aggression/violence, disconnection and narcissism...and, thereby, things will be "Same As It Ever Was."
How do we re-create a human context of trust, cooperation, connection, etc? We can come together in unity and re-learn, together, how to do community...to work together to rebuild trust, cooperation, connection, acceptance, caring, and diversity as a crucial and complementary strength....
You can part-take in co-creating "another way", from wherever you are, 3pm PST, Sunday, 6/12: https://richraffals.blogspot.com/2020/06/another-way_6.html
From my perspective, the "Another Way" Franti calls out for is to bring back "community"….
For millennia, humans lived successfully and sustainably in communities/tribes/clans -- in which the key to survival was to work together in trust, cooperation, and solidarity. There was safety, support, connection, caring and compassion within the group. Diversity was not just a strength, but a survival necessity: Each person in a community is like a separate organ in the body. The heart and liver provide equally crucial functions, just as the medicine woman and hunter provide equally crucial functions, just as the architect and the chef provide equally crucial functions: Diversity within community is crucial and complementary.
When community breaks down, so does the environment of trust, cooperation, safety, support, connection, and solidarity. Broken community engenders fear/mistrust, separation/division, competition, comparison/aggression/violence, disconnection/loneliness/depression and narcissism...all of which can make diversity no longer look complementary, or even make it look/feel like an enemy or threat. Sound familiar?
I believe this loss of something so essential to us, this loss of something for which we're hard-wired, this loss of a way of being that works not just for humans but for all life on the planet...makes both individual humans and the whole of humanity dysfunctional -- ill, violent, and perhaps even evil. The new challenges of this time are illuminating how our traditional ways of suppressing, distracting, escaping, and otherwise managing this illness of the psyche (borne of separation/division and the loss of community) are neither sustainable nor healthy alternatives -- neither personally nor collectively.
From this perspective, until we can re-create a human context of trust, cooperation, connection, safety and solidarity, we'll just continue creating systems, structures and "solutions" from the old/current context of fear/mistrust, competition, aggression/violence, disconnection and narcissism...and, thereby, things will be "Same As It Ever Was."
How do we re-create a human context of trust, cooperation, connection, etc? We can come together in unity and re-learn, together, how to do community...to work together to rebuild trust, cooperation, connection, acceptance, caring, and diversity as a crucial and complementary strength....
You can part-take in co-creating "another way", from wherever you are, 3pm PST, Sunday, 6/12: https://richraffals.blogspot.com/2020/06/another-way_6.html
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