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Honestly, I had never been politically involved in anything before, and my friend just bought me a bus ticket and said, “Hey, let’s go!” I said, “Okay, sure.” I came here, and I saw what was going on, and I thought it was a great educational tool for me. I thought I could learn so much about human behavior, not just that but different subjects that aren't usually covered in the media. It’s great because this movement is different for a lot of people, why they’re here, their agendas, their sentiments. I feel like our role as a movement is to highlight social injustices that aren't otherwise covered because the media’s job is no longer to inform us but to manipulate culture with fear.
It’s important because I think that 2012
is a shift in human consciousness as a collective, and I think that people
everywhere are beginning to open their eyes and become more aware of the
problems that are around us because before we try to fix a problem, we have to
make people aware that there is one.
I think that my future scenario for an ideal world is really
advanced for our times right now, not advanced as like what it entitles, but how
to come about it will take too much work for me to even see probably in my
lifetime. I’m hoping for a complete resource based economy, all renewable
resources. It’s amazing how much technology we have these days, but it’s
stunted because the corporations run the resources. If technology was at its forefront, it would eliminate a lot of menial jobs. If we had more educated people, there
would be a drop in crime, and I would like to take out the jailing system and replaced it
with more of a therapeutical type of thing where we could actually focus on the
individual rather than putting them out of sight. That goes along with homeless
people. Abandoned homes outnumber homeless people 5 to 1, and you don’t really
know there’s a problem unless you see it on the streets.
The biggest lie in society to me is that there is a scarcity of resources, and I think there is an overabundance of things, and that’s one thing I would like to see change. I'd like to see a gift economy. What would be the incentive to do any work is what people would ask. The incentive would be, instead of painting a painting just to sell it or instead of doing manual label or farming just to make a profit, now you’re doing it because you want corn for your relatives or your family or your friends or your community, basically doing jobs because it’s a passion. If you turn your job into your passion, it’s no longer work. It’s like play for pay.
Interview by Stacy Lanyon
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The biggest lie in society to me is that there is a scarcity of resources, and I think there is an overabundance of things, and that’s one thing I would like to see change. I'd like to see a gift economy. What would be the incentive to do any work is what people would ask. The incentive would be, instead of painting a painting just to sell it or instead of doing manual label or farming just to make a profit, now you’re doing it because you want corn for your relatives or your family or your friends or your community, basically doing jobs because it’s a passion. If you turn your job into your passion, it’s no longer work. It’s like play for pay.
Interview by Stacy Lanyon
http://buildingcompassionthroughaction.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/stacylanyon
https://instagram.com/stacylanyon/
https://twitter.com/StacyLanyon
http://stacylanyon.com/