Hi All,

See this interesting article about how new technology is being created to enable humans to communicate better across species.

So we can now look forward to communicating better with honeybees, dolphins, and elephants with new technology. It’s all very fascinating.

However, are there others out there working to create new methods (technological or otherwise) whereby humans can communicate qualitatively better with other humans?

Are there folks who are cultivating never-before-seen levels of deep empathy so that humans can begin gladdening the heart of human beings in a qualitatively larger way?

Are there people deepening the ways in which we can feed the hungry (which can be food for the emotional and mental well-being as well as the physical body)?

Are others looking at how we can help the afflicted in a larger, completely reframed way?

Are we focusing on lightening the sorrow of the sorrowful in new and potent ways?

Are we moment to moment seeking to remove the sufferings of the injured?

While it is fascinating to believe that we could communicate in new ways with other species, there is still much work to be done in transforming this world for humans. For instance, there are innumerable social, economic, and political systems in this world that expose certain populations to demonstrably greater risks of morbidity and mortality. These social, economic, and political structures constitute a kind of structural violence that harm certain groups of people, contributing to health inequalities and measurably negative impacts on wellbeing.

Can we not apply the ingenuity of humankind to what remains the critical issues for all humans including, but not necessarily limited to, world health inequity, systemic & structural racism, the pervasive issue of unsheltered people, worldwide displaced peoples and refugees, feeding the hungry, etc.?

I argue that it could be that, once we focus on repairing (upstream) the structures that contribute to human suffering (as opposed to being myopically focused on the downstream outcomes), other issues on planet earth would begin to work themselves out in ways that currently we can’t imagine. Going upstream to finally address problems at their root will require great communication. It would also contribute to a growth of deep communication (also read: deep connectedness) downstream due to the inherent caring work that occurs.

What I propose is not anti-environmental. Instead, it’s a radical re-interpretation of what matters most on planet earth and how all life on planet earth (including honeybees, dolphins, and elephants) would benefit from such a focus on essential work.

We (collectively…all of us) act as if we have forever to do this necessary work.

There is no Humanity Plan B.

Memento mori.

Farewell.

Until later…