sharonevolving
I don't have the answers yet, but I have learned enough to be dangerous, and ask better questions..
Things you'd think would be a requirement to make the G8
Or just to at least label your country as "Advanced".
1. True equality for all citizens
2. A higher education system with open access for everyone that can compete anywhere in the world
3. Free quality health care for everyone
4. Well-rounded education, free, for all children, ensuring they are raised to think critically and are well-versed in the history of the world leading up to this particular point in time.
5. Housing
6. An understanding that one is part of the environment and must respect it. Less a focus on harnessing of resources, more a focus on integrating within the environment, ensuring as little disruption as possible, and preservation of resources for future generations.
7. A plan to help other nations (who want to) find their way to prosperity that builds on these same tenets, and incorporates new ones as they are discovered (perhaps an idea or way of being arising from the same nation one is helping!)
8. Openness in understanding that the spiritual path is often unique to the individual, seems to have infiniteĀ entry points, and looks a little different for everyone.
9. Cohesiveness within one's social group, state, nation, and within the world coupled with forward planning for recovery effort in the face of natural or man-made disasters.
10. Profound respect for life and all its stages: birth, childhood, initiation to adulthood, sexuality, marriage or union, child-rearing and family relationships, aging, disease, and death.
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1. True equality for all citizens
2. A higher education system with open access for everyone that can compete anywhere in the world
3. Free quality health care for everyone
4. Well-rounded education, free, for all children, ensuring they are raised to think critically and are well-versed in the history of the world leading up to this particular point in time.
5. Housing
6. An understanding that one is part of the environment and must respect it. Less a focus on harnessing of resources, more a focus on integrating within the environment, ensuring as little disruption as possible, and preservation of resources for future generations.
7. A plan to help other nations (who want to) find their way to prosperity that builds on these same tenets, and incorporates new ones as they are discovered (perhaps an idea or way of being arising from the same nation one is helping!)
8. Openness in understanding that the spiritual path is often unique to the individual, seems to have infiniteĀ entry points, and looks a little different for everyone.
9. Cohesiveness within one's social group, state, nation, and within the world coupled with forward planning for recovery effort in the face of natural or man-made disasters.
10. Profound respect for life and all its stages: birth, childhood, initiation to adulthood, sexuality, marriage or union, child-rearing and family relationships, aging, disease, and death.
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