From Here to There What are the characteristics of our society that we seek to change? Competitiveness: Be cooperative. Stop working in a competitive job. Do work that nurtures cooperation. Hierarchy: Find meaningful work in a cooperative, community workplace. If you can't find it, create it. Support local self-reliance, local self-government, local autonomy. Support unions and cooperatives. Engage in consensus decision making. Greed: Simplify. Discover the joy and freedom of making less money. Quit your job and find meaningful work. Individualism: Join your local neighborhood association, or go door to door and start one. Engage in conversation with your neighbors. Work to find mutual solutions to local problems. Consumerism: Learn the joy and freedom of owning less. Buy at thrift stores, used book stores, garage sales. Cherish what works well. Most importantly: Don't worry, be the change. Don't worry that everyone else in your neighborhood, community, state, nation is not changing. Be the change. Let your joy in life shine through. Others will be attracted to your light. Share your experience with those who ask. Watch the change spread. In this way we don't waste our energy opposing the existing system. We pour our energy into the change as we turn our backs on the system that drains so much energy from us. We release that energy into the creative process of change. We build the new as the old withers and dies. Hayduke Speaks! back