The late Martin Luther King Jr (below) had one too and although different in specifics, it was driven, however, by similar ideals; ideals that ensured human flourishing.
King dreamed of equality between humans, something I dream of too, but beyond that, I dream also of small tight-knit, self-reliant, resilient, interlocked and prosperous communities in which the people who live there and the communities in which they live, stand as one as they address tomorrow.My dream is not proprietorial and so you, or any others, may step into the dream and taking the advice of the University of Melbourne, “Dream Large”.
Our generous, spacious and prosperous future is not about traditional growth or profit, rather a stationary state of capital and wealth that one of the 19th century founding fathers of economics, John Stuart Mill (right), said would be both necessary and desirable.Mill, an enthusiast of the stationary state, imagined such a position did not imply a stationary state of human improvement.
Join me in my dream as we consider life in our finite world and on how we best can unleash the endless bounty of the human intellect, innovation, spontaneity, charisma, kindness and the social necessity of mingling and sharing with others.
Join me in my dream - join me in my contemplations about why our world is divisive, competitive, consumptive, and violent with an addiction to wasteful and destructive fallacies and superstitions.
Join me in my dream - join me as we ponder the way ahead and contemplate a community in which most of what we need is within easy walking or cycling distance.
Join me in my dream - join me as we think about how we liberate people from the shackles of what modernity terms progress, a progress that sees the young who ache for the wisdom of their elders are starved of it and those who can give are trapped in the iron cage of consumerism.
Martin Luther King dreamed of equality; I also dream of it, but in small tight-knit, self-reliant, resilient, interlocked and prosperous communities free of narcissism that are physically and psychologically prepared for our low-energy future.
