Inequality

1505: 

If I predict that the value of my house will drop because Abdu has moved in next door, I am a pessimist; the optimist would see things differently – their value system would be based on something more interesting.  Instead of being resentful towards Abdu, I can be friends with him.  As a friend, he might become valuable to me.  So, the pessimist sees gloom ahead, and the optimist sees that Abdu, any Abdu, lifting the gloom.  What better than moving towards integration of differing cultures, global-village style?  By bringing this about, we simply show what we are capable of.

         

What could be better than being like the 'enlightened ones' who more or less all live in the garden?  Cats and cabbages and kids, all rub along nicely together.  In a fashion.  It's not always perfect, but nobody's complaining about lack-of-perfect.  It's just that today it contrasts so wildly with 'adult business'.  Something about the style of things.  Tone.  The kids might be saying something important about 'hurt' and passing negative feelings across, but who listens to kids?  In a future world there won’t be any problem about interaction since we'll have understood the 'no-need' for doing-hurt.  Any hint of racism would be ludicrous.  And certainly, there'd be no reason to be eating pigs or drinking the milkings of cows.  

The start of all this is living a peaceful, non-hurting, vegan lifestyle.  Most adults in the Western world today know what it is - how being vegan is about plant-based food and clothing.  That's basically all there IS to know.  Because after that, it’s just a stroll down the garden path, to a point where by suspending a little disbelief, we can find ourselves in a very natural world.   A world where we can imagine how all-this could become very fashionable.