User:JasonSears78

I believe that humanity can live in peace. I believe that a group of people committed to self-improvement and active in productive collaborative can change the world for the better. I believe that change is coming fast and will require discipline, calculation and alignment. I believe in a vision for the future where social problems are no larger than personal problems and people support each other in enlightened, exciting and fulfilling lives.

I think the keys to this vision are in our possession; the mechanisms to change are practiced and familiar; the goals are clear and compelling, and our individual desire to  carry out change is latent (momentum is lacking), powerful (see what we've already accomplished) and misunderstood (we must start every journey of change with the self).

I envision a community that behaves as a family of millions, each member tied to a contract of peace and support, built on a foundation of wisdom and held together by accountability and consistency.

At the beginning are the visionaries, unburdened by unlucky development and circumstance, ready to commit to action, demonstrating excellent leadership. They forge the systems that will allow us to manage the New Way.

Then come the suffering, those with little to loose and passionately seeking hope. They offer hard work in exchange for a better lot.

Then come the enlightened, seeing proof of practice. They are the witnesses of social failures and bring high expectations forged by experience and education.

Then come the skeptics, following others and their animalistic natures to seek status and betterment. They strain the systems, bringing conflict and challenging the vision.

Then come the enemies. Motivated by hatred, ignorance and poverty they force conflict and threaten peace.

Then come refugees, the young seeking an asylum, escaping from unhappy lives.

Then comes the unknown. For every human journey pushes farther into complexity where visions become blurred and hope must be remade.

I believe peace is the ultimate goal. Peace inside and out. Peace for each other and all life. With that goal conflict becomes the problem of others.