When we are ready

It is simply impossible for us to move forward from where we are if we continue to misunderstand the past.
If we are unwilling to acknowledge the facts, then we will continue to be lost as a species.
We have in our minds a past that never existed. We know this.
The past of peace, plenty, and unity never existed. Instead, there was violence, hunger, and hate.
When we are ready to understand that reality we will be ready to think creatively about the future.
We will begin to conceive of participation in governance through the internet and through community institutions.
How can we embrace new steps forward if we continue to look toward the impossible past?
Let's admit where we have been and that we have made progress, but we need to push forward.
We should build new structures now, as we work to dismantle the old ones; acclimate.
True, we did not impact our natural environment quite as negatively in the past as we do now.
But we cannot go backward. We need to find new solutions, new systems for waste, food, water, and energy.
Candles and horses may be a part of the solution, but simply going backward will not do.
War, pollution, and hunger are solvable if we feel like it. Racism and supremacism are uprooted through experience and education.
If we want to use the tools we have to make revolutionary change, we can.
​The change has to aim at the unknown. None of us have seen it, because it is based on something as of yet unwritten. Not the past.