Interdependence Day:
The Evolution Has Begun

“It’s time to celebrate our independence, and recognize our interdependence.”

Remember that movie from a few years ago, Independence Day, that portrayed a horrific disasteroid scenario from the future?  Well, it may certainly seem that such a future is in the offing, particularly with all the offing that’s being done right now.  But that’s only if we follow the current script.

There’s a new movie in production called Interdependence Day where we humans write an entirely different story.  In this one, when some celestial being asks, “How did the human race turn out?” we can proudly declare, “We won!”

Independence began with great promise.  Eleven score and twelve years ago, America’s revolutionary founders cut us loose from the Old World model where the rule of gold overruled the Golden Rule, where mining took precedence (“that’s mine, that’s mine, that’s mine”), and the lowest common dominator was king.  But the revolution was barely over before the devolution had begun, and 230 years later those same creeps we declared independence from have crept back into power

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