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Imagine a world where there was
No beer
No cigarettes
No cocaine
No crack
No heroin
No weed
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Imagine a world where there was
No vodka,
No gin
No alcoholic beverages of any kind.
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Imagine
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Can you?
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What would that be like ?
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People without intoxicants ?
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Would it be more peaceful?
Less crime ?
More moral ?
More compassionate ?
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I don’t know.
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Imagine a world
Where the resources of the earth
Were the birthright
Of EVERYONE.
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What would that look like ?
Anybody could call on any amount of oil, coal or gas
At any time.
Everyone would have the rights to all the food farmed
Pesticide controlled , or organic.
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What would that be like for people ?
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Imagine a world where
People chose their work
Based on what they WANTED
To do.
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How different would that be ?
Would the number of doctors be lower?
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Imagine a world where there was
No pornography
Would there be fewer incidents of rape and child abuse ?
Would there be fewer emasculated males ?
Would there be more fidelity ?
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I have no idea ?
But it’s worth imagining -
because we do not HAVE to accept.
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What would the world be like
If everyone was NOT terrified of dying ?
If everyone accepted aging and illness ?
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What would the world be like
If globalization had been about
Spreading compassion for all beings ?
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I have no idea.
But it’s intriguing to even ask the question.
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What I do believe
Is that
Humanity had the resources and intellect
To make a very different destiny for itself.
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Humanity had the potential.
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Day to day
In our normal lives
Between us
Sometimes
Beautiful things happen.
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But, such
Is happening
In a wider context
Of remedial intellect
Moral redundancy
And existential ignorance
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So
Some people
In their daily lives
Show the shining light
Of possibility.
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But it is getting harder
And harder
To be kind
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When the amount of food, water and shelter
Is slowly and inexorably dwindling.
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I love people
But I also
KNOW people.
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When I am dead
Non of this shit will matter.
Same for you.
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Just that
Remarkable
Existential fact
Should
Open your mind.
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But it doesn’t.
Wonderful Adrian....