This pretty much sums up what I and many others have been trying to achieve for decades; educating people and working to build communities, systems, and structures that are controlled and operated for mutual benefit of all that can replace the exclusive and extractive institutional systems upon which we have become so dependent—governments and corporations which are increasingly impersonal, bureaucratic, and automated to the point where it is increasingly difficult to reach a real human person or to get timely assistance. We are forced to do everything ourselves, including checking out our groceries, fixing our own software and hardware problems. AI can seem to help, but it lacks insight and creativity and often leads us into endless conversations, and whom does AI ultimately benefit? As the title of a popular Broadway play of a few decades ago said, “Stop the World, I want to get off.” We must build another world, a world of humans for ALL humans not just a few.

Love is the answer!