What Are We Worth? (w/ murmuration video)

Hi - this might be the longest call-and response ever created - Its so long it might be more accurately defined as CULT INDOCTRINATION. —— I say regular type, audience says bold type

Hi - we are now going to read what might be the longest call-and response ever created - Its so long it is probably more accurately defined as CULT INDOCTRINATION. You all have a copy - on your chair - I will read the regular type and you read the Bold Face. If you doze off, I will casually but loudly mention your name. Because I believe in Audience Participation By Any Means Necessary - All right let’s start

  • I want us all to fly like skylarks in their fantastic murmurations

  • I want us all to swim like sardines in ecstatic swirls

  • Moving in harmony with each other

  • Leaderless, Intuitive, Self-organizing, Collective Intelligence

  • What am I worth? What is my value?

  • What are we worth? What is our value?

  • Am I just a dollar sign? is my value the sum of my assets?

  • Is everyone only a dollar amount? The total of their portfolio?

  • Am I worthless if I am poor?

  • Are we a negative if we are in debt?

  • Is Elon Musk more valuable than the combined population of 80% of the earth?

  • Is any person more valuable or less valuable than any other person?

  • The skylarks are all equal in their joyful synchronicity

  • The sardines are egalitarian in their peaceful cohesion

  • Why do humans fly against each other? I want to live in a flock of skylarks

  • I want to be in a sardine tornado

  • Why is there competition instead of collaboration?

  • Why must there be leaders, followers, winners, losers, rich and poor?

  • I want everyone to thrive together

  • in the sky the earth the ocean

  • There is an economy that looks just like the lovely coordination of skylarks and sardines

  • What is that Economy called?

  • Gift Economy is an option to capitalism - Imagine waking up everyday to give your community exactly what you want to give

  • I’d be happy to do that I really would

  • Imagine your community providing you with whatever you needed for FREE

  • Food? Housing? Health? Education?

  • Imagine working motivated by compassion, not forced by desperation or lured by greed.

  • Every day would be like Christmas? Giving gifts and getting gifts?

  • Yes Yes Yes Imagine a world where “the economy” is just…

  • 
people taking care of each other?

  • Our lives would be governed by empathy.

  • I’d like to be a very good person.

  • Gift Economy is generated by service to others.

  • where can I find this?

  • Gift economy is far away and everywhere

  • Be specific give me directions

  • Gift economy operates in Samoa, Fiji, and the Cook Islands.

  • Those are very expensive airline tickets.

  • Gift economy existed in Native American tribes like the Haida, the Salish, the Tlingit.

  • Are they still alive?

  • Gratitude was given to individuals who gave the most to others. Hoarding was the worst offense.

  • Billionaires are hoarders. Wealth must be circulated.

  • We need to share.

  • Yes, We need to share.

  • We need to be active in our communities like the swirling birds and fish

  • Never colliding with each other, because we’re sensitive

  • Capitalism says we never have enough.

  • We gotta buy junk all the time to keep the markets going.

  • Capitalism turns human beings into sharks

  • We’re supposed to eat little fish

  • Capitalism, they tell us, is the law of the jungle

  • We’re supposed to be crocodiles, gobbling the weak

  • Community Potlucks are a display of gift economy.

  • Bring a dish to share with everyone

  • I want to eat a slice of Marjorie’s pie

  • I want to eat three of Joanna’s muffins

  • There are no homeless people in a gift economy

  • Vacant buildings are given to those who need a home

  • Gift Economy is everyone being kind to each other

  • Skylarks fly together in ever-changing cooperation

  • Sardines swirl in collective unison.

  • What we do everyday can make change happen

  • What we do everyday

  • Can make change happen

  • What am I worth?

  • We are worth what we give to others.

  • Are we just a dollar sign?

  • We are not just a dollar sign.

  • Are we worthless if we are poor?

  • We are valuable when we help people feel empathy. This makes them human.

  • Is any person more valuable or less valuable than any other person?

  • No they are not.

  • I want us all to fly like skylarks in their murmurations

  • I want us all to swim like sardines in their ecstatic swirls

  • Moving in harmony with each other

  • Leaderless, Intuitive, Self-organizing, Collective Intelligence