conversation with Hamid #2

intellect and intuition constantly work together, intuition like whispers, intellect like purpose, the body hold thousands of years of information.

we have a worldwide system of economics that relys on two components:

1)force and the extentions of force (the castle takes the resources of the peasants or kills them). we have invested in force beyond our means, and now we are in a cage that controls most of our lives, from what clothes we can wear to how we can make money to how we can imagine reality.

2)resource flows. we have concentrated force to take as many resources as we can, to maximize profit, maximize resources used and wasted. he buys a cup of coffee for one dollar and sells it for ten, or as much as he can get. our expected rate of return is immoral for the out of perportion resource flows.

one person opting out or several people doing small projects cannot change the world. Hamid believes the only way to stop it is complete transformation of the economy of force. the magic is the sermon on the mount, which goes beyond religion to be a basic moral template of the sharing of resources. the world does not have to grind to a hault, businesses do not have to stop, but with the guidance of the sermon on the mount can shift their thinking to and economy of sharing and the world will be changed.

we don't have the luxury of time. Hamid gives his own ideas three years and then he will just play tennis.

much of what we do for peace is a waste of time. we waste our energy obsessing about a scratch on the car, when the whole thing is broken and needs and overhaul. how will obsessing over a scratch matter?

the Hamids, the Wendys, the Peter Suters of the world are but drops of ink in the ocean.

immorality is judged by only one thing; its part in the standard economy, the system of force.

Hamid hopes to write a book that people will read. his ideas are his product. he has to get the product right before he can try to market it.