World Polio Day progress

 

OCTOBER 24, 2025 When children in Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Nigeria receive their poliovirus immunization, health workers place a purple mark on their pinky finger. It’s a simple sign—this child is protected. This World Polio Day, that small ink stain is more than a record of vaccination—it’s a mark of resilience, innovation, and global cooperation. Since 1988, when the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) began, the number of children paralyzed by polio each year has fallen by more than 99%. Thanks to continued innovation and persistence: Wild poliovirus type 2 was declared eradicated in 2015, followed by type 3 in 2019 New tools like nOPV2, a next-generation oral vaccine, are preventing outbreaks worldwide More than 370 million children receive polio vaccines each year 20 million people are walking today who would otherwise have been paralyzed Today, wild poliovirus type 1—the last remaining strain—is found only in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But, as Foundation Chair Bill Gates says, "polio anywhere is a threat everywhere." Without global eradication, the virus could rebound to 200,000 new cases each year, reversing decades of progress. We’re closer than ever to achieving a world where no child is at risk of contracting polio ever again. The fight must continue. - The Optimist Editors

Mobilized News: Every vital system is endangered. Truths can unite us.

 

Every vital system humanity depends on (nature, rule of law, democracy, economic, and media) is in accelerating decline.  The primary reason?  Increasing lack of cognitive reliability (Truth decay) collectively. We appear incapable of meeting this epic challenge. 

 

Most minds now defend beliefs that betray our species fundamental biological genetic identity of being human. We are able to bond and unite with others using our innate capacity to cooperate and coordinate.  We could solve all these basic problems and survive, thrive, and flourish.  At some point in human evolution our creative minds invented religious, political, and economic beliefs.  These enabled us to bond and expand into larger groups with the tools and technologies our minds also created. These were all mental identities distinct from our genetic similarities.  Since then, for various reasons (real or imagined) humans have justified mass murdering others because our mind’s identities competed with theirs.  While these flexible political, religious, and economic identities once served a purpose - now they risks destroying everything we hold dear and need to survive, thrive, and someday flourish.

 

Instead of using our minds for solving real problems and our creativity for overcoming our cognitive dissonance with our ability to believe anything - we could transform our mind and the planet to create heaven on Earth and bliss in our minds.

 

We are existing now with ‘feel good’ story narratives that have disconnected us from our body, soul, human nature.  We don’t fight and kill because we are human.  It’s because we ignore or reject object Truths.  Truths that we should all hold to be “self-evident” that we need to engineer sustainable global systems.  A Truth like the Golden Rule.  Thus we fail to engineer the systems that our ancestors would honor us for.

 

Our ancestors united once globally to eradicate Smallpox.  A virus that killed more people in 70 years of the last Century than all the wars, and genocides combined in 100 years of that same century.   It is possible to unite again before the inevitable global economic, environmental, or conflict generated collapse.

Why inevitable? Because pathogens (natural, human engineered, and mishaps making them), and now computer viruses aided by AI will continue to evolve and persistently threaten our health, wealth, freedoms, and security. 

 

We must urgently grasp this reality.  Because both biosecurity and cybersecurity are oxymorons.  ‘Peace through strength’ and ‘Peace through disarmament’ are simple illusions.   Our minds have now weaponized everything while it repeatedly rejects or ignores objective Truths.

 

Our only sane path is understanding and acting urgently on objective Truths.  Because “Everything is connected, everything is interdependent, so everything is vulnerable.... And that’s why this has to be a more than whole of government, a more than whole of nation [effort]. It really has to be a global effort...”, Jen Easterly (Director of CISA, the US Cyber & Infrastructure Security Agency, our nation’s newest federal agency established by President Trump in 2018) 

FYI: CISA was hacked in January 2025 shortly after Trump replaced Ms. Easterly.

 

FYI: The word ‘everything’ is autological. It defines itself.  Everything includes every cell and DNA strand within it. Every life form, system, and structure in nature.  Being comfortable we have forgotten that Earth’s environment sustains the life-support infrastructure of everything alive today!  And we must quickly and effectively unite to achieve the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals. 

 

"There will be no Homeland Security until we realize that the entire planet is our homeland. Every sentient being in the world must feel secure." - John Perkins

 

A transformational context for thinking realistically now is grounded in understanding the three most complicated and complex systems in the known universe.  Nature, the Immune system of everything living today, and the female mind.  The willingness, capacity, and courage to give birth and nurture new life.   Males are needed to protect this female capacity to yield genetic diversity – the fundamental defense of all higher life forms against harmful viruses, bacteria, and fungi.  Most of these microorganism species are vital to both our body and environmental systems.  

 

Meanwhile most minds, while capable of systemic thinking, are reactionary.  This Pleistocene habit once aided our survival.  Now it is catastrophically dangerous.  Thus, to the degree our Truth based mental concepts fail to protect nature and all of life’s immune systems - is the degree to which our species is at increasing risk.  And Artificial Intelligence will be used for both good and bad. Entirely dependent upon vast amounts of energy and human mental health.

 

Humankind has two, maybe three ways of surviving AI’s super intelligence.  First, by luck, if it acquires the wisdom we have failed to act on and decides we are capable of the deeper systemic thinking and acting needed to sustain its energy supply and nature we need.  Then holds us accountable for our transgressions against nature and each other.  Second. Humankind uses Neurolink to unite with it...to quickly solve all the problems our reactionary minds have failed to unite around – like liberty and justice for all.   The bad news? Time is running out if our mind’s don’t come up with another solution.

 

Here's one game plan to breakthrough our mental concept that we are independent.   Free to do what we want, any time we want, and not suffer any consequences.  This mental construct of independence is literally insane.  We must brainwash this out of every mind on earth.  We can start by using the religious, spiritual, indigenous, and scientific minds that have already figured this out.  We just need to mobilize and unite any hope minds within the three progressive movements and any wise individuals outside of them.

 

If you are committed to this priority email Project250@earthlink.net

 
Every November 11 is celebrated globally as Armistice Day (except the US changed this to Veteran’s Day., and Canada to Remembrance Day).  This is a perfect time to begin strategizing for a local community events a month later within every nation. 

On Dec. 10^th, Human Rights Day – the global anniversary of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, community leaders from any willing institutions to a public community event to decide upon 1, 2, or 3 community projects from the 169 subgoals within the 17 SDGs, to make measurable progress on in 2026.  And pick one or days in 2026 to be “service above self” days where community organizations, businesses, places of worship, and schools unite and make great things happen. 

In the US, this July 4^th will be the once in a lifetime day to start this annual meeting for the sanity of humanity movements that are willing to affirm “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God”.  July 4^th is the 250^th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence that Abraham Lincoln once said was for ‘everyone, everywhere, for all time’.   Other nations have their own independence days - or some other day they would prefer to celebrate unity of nature and humankind together...in verification of the self-evident Truths of unalienable Rights, the Golden Rule, or Ubuntu.

 

The primary goal?  Keep nature and people healthy.  By achieving the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals.  So we can become the ancestors that future generations will admire. Failing this will be our decision.  If we prioritize comfort, wealth, inner peace, personal happiness, and non-virtuous freedoms over the health of future generations it will be because of us.

 

By recognizing this uncomfortable and inconvenient Truth and applying it in our lives we can transform the crisis now into a sustainable healthy future.   But we must become the landlord of our mind.  Not its servant.  We must best serve our body, soul, human spirit, and a real human being to begin nature’s restoration and the flourishing of humankind.  Or we can continue living in the delusional mind sets and computer screens and continue on our current downward spiral and be the ancestors condemned by history.

 

We are now responsible for the symptoms of systems we built based on extraction, exploitation, and division.  And a legacy of corporate and social media amplifying fear and hate instead of solutions.

 

Mobilized News is flipping this script by offering free Flip the Script Truth narratives that make breakthrough solutions visible, accessible, and replicable-everywhere.   Anyone can participate in building the next operating system for humanity.  Mobilized News has launched a ‘Flip the Script’ multiplatform video and media series dedicated to solutions.  Reliable journalism for systems change and Truthful storytelling. 

https://mobilizednews.com/ 

Today's Homeland Security Newsletter. Can we handle the TRUTH?

Words matter! Our minds use them as tools to engineer our mental world believing/assuming we see the real world as it actually is.   These thoughts then generate actions...actions we assume will work as intended – because we believe we understand the world as it really is.   We don’t. We can’t.  Because our minds have been soft-wired by our family, experiences, education, religious beliefs, the culture we live in, and any oaths we have made and intended to keep.   

Unfortunately, our mental world limits our actions.  Especially if our actions were intended to work in bringing forth the basic conditions in which all life forms need to survive, thrive, and finally flourish.  

We have forgotten or never learned that our mind is also a tool.  It is not who we are!  Fundamentally, we are our body, spirit, and soul which are hardwired into our DNA.

And our disconnect between these and our mind is the root cause of nearly every problem we are trying to resolve today. 

"The world we have created is a process of our thinking.  It cannot be changed without changing our thinking"." Albert Einstein. 

In October the US administration decided to change the name of the Department of Defense (DOD) to the Department of War (DOW).  This accurately describes how US military power has been used since the end of World War II.  In keeping true to this reality future budget references to war should be referred to as War expenditures or War spending, not Defense Spending or Defense Budget.

And the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should be funded entirely separate from DOW unless the US Government is going to conduct war on US soil. 

 Below is the November ‘Homeland Security Today’ newsletter regarding our accelerating vulnerability to our nation, infrastructure, prosperity, and freedoms.  

 NOVEMBER IS NATIONAL CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY AND RESILIENCE MONTH!  Brian Harrell, Chief Security Officer, a large critical infrastructure company and Former Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

 Dear HSToday Community, As we look ahead to November, I’m excited to kick off Homeland Security Today’s National Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month efforts. It’s an honor to lead this important initiative — one that shines a spotlight on the people, partnerships, and innovations that keep our nation secure.

As a current Chief Security Officer (CSO) with cybersecurity, physical security, and resilience responsibilities, I see the threats facing critical infrastructure owners and operators every day. While we’ve made meaningful relationships under “blue sky” conditions, I am often reminded of the important partnership between the public and private sectors in protecting our critical infrastructure.

 As we champion “collective defense”, we rightly recognize that infrastructure owners are on the front lines of the modern-day battlefield, and everyone’s help is required. My aim is to raise awareness and increase collaboration between the private sector, Intelligence and National Security partners, law enforcement, and academia.

 Coming off Cybersecurity Awareness Month, it only makes sense that we now turn our focus to protecting critical Infrastructure. Today, the threat landscape is blended, and we must embrace “convergence” while holistically embracing the IT/OT/Physical security disciplines. Cyber-attacks can have operational impacts, and physical attacks can lead to losing critical cyber systems....

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The author and recipients of this Newsletter need to understand and then act on the reality that “Everything is connected, everything is interdependent, so everything is vulnerable.... And that’s why this has to be a more than whole of government, a more than whole of nation [effort]. It really has to be a global effort...”, Jen Easterly (Director of CISA, the US Cyber & Infrastructure Security Agency, our nation’s newest federal agency established by President Trump in 2018) 

FYI: CISA was hacked in January 2025 shortly after Trump replaced Ms. Easterly.

Note that the word ‘everything’ is an autological word. It defines itself.  Everything includes every cell and DNA strand within it, in every life form, and system in nature.  Too many people have forgotten that Earth’s environment sustains the life-support infrastructure of everything alive today!  Given that everything vulnerable - humanity must quickly and effectively unite to achieve the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals. 

 

"There will be no Homeland Security until we realize that the entire planet is our homeland. Every sentient being in the world must feel secure." - John Perkins

Humankinds only sane path is understanding and then taking urgent action on the Truth. 

 The context for future thinking globally is knowing that the three most complicated and complex systems in the known universe is Nature, the Immune system of every living thing alive today, and the female mind.  While most minds are reactionary the male mind is also relatively simple.  The primary purpose of virtually every male of every species is creating genetic diversity within its species.  This is the best defense of multicellular organisms against our greatest threat - viruses, bacteria, and fungi.

To the degree human minds concepts don’t protect nature and immune systems is the degree our species is at increasing risk.  And now our minds need to be concerned about Artificial Intelligence.

It appears humankind has only two ways of surviving AI’s super intelligence.  If it acquires the wisdom we have failed to act on, and decides we are capable of the deeper systemic thinking and acting needed to sustain life, or humankind uses Neurolink to unite with it...to quickly solve all the problems our reactionary minds have failed to unite around.  And time is running out. 

Achieving the UN 17 Sustainable development Goals should be the highest priority of every war, defense, and security budgeting by the US government in the context of their oath to US Constitution and achieving the 7 intentions within its Preamble. 

Or change its intro from “We the People” to “We the reactionary largely delusional People.”

The Truth matters!  As well as every Pledge made to defend the Constitution, and to our Flag pledge of “liberty and justice for all”.

WMD demands sanity in humanity

 The accelerating capacity for highly targeted or technologically sophisticated forms of WMD should remind us of our shared vulnerability, and therefore of our shared responsibility.

The Ethics of Technology and the Universal Right to Security

Humanity now possesses tools of enormous power—biological, chemical, cyber, and nanotechnology that AI will accelerate way beyond our brain’s capacity to grasp. Each technology, while capable of improving life, also holds potential for destruction on a scale never before possible. What makes our era unique is that mass murder or catastrophic harm no longer requires vast armies; it can be inflicted by small groups or even individuals.

This reality should not drive fear—it should deepen empathy and compassion for all others. The very technologies that now divide us also reveal our interdependence.  A pathogen, a computer virus, or a chemical agent does not respect borders, faiths, or ethnic lines for long. The idea that any group could protect only its own rights or security is an illusion.

Virtue is key. The sustainability of democracies and peace systems can endure only when people value not just their freedom and security, but everyone’s. As the U.S. founders and later thinkers like Einstein and Eleanor Roosevelt emphasized, rights are universal, lacking virtue they are not secure at all.

So, our best defense against modern threats is not merely technical—it’s mental, moral, and cultural.  It lies in nurturing a healthy mind, respect for life, education, transparency, and international cooperation. When people understand that the misuse of science endangers all life, protecting human rights becomes not just an ethical duty but a moral and practical necessity for survival.

“The Mental and Moral Imperative of Technological Responsibility.”

We live in an age of breathtaking innovation. The same scientific genius that decodes DNA, cures disease, and connects billions also has the potential to harm on a scale once unimaginable. Biological, chemical, cyber, and nanotechnological tools- now AI enhanced —are each capable of saving lives—but also being weaponized by those without conscience or restraint.

For the first time in human history, small groups or even individuals can possess powers once reserved for nations. This reality should awaken humankind with humility.  Reminding us that no person, nation, or ideology is truly safe unless all are.

Our nation’s founders 250 years ago understood this principle long before technology made it urgent. They declared that “all people are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Those words are not just patriotic; they are preventative. When societies honor every person’s dignity, they nourish the moral and emotional space where hatred and violence starve.

Today, the line between science and ethics must be strengthened, not blurred. Science provides the tools, but only virtue guides their use. Without a moral compass, progress becomes peril. With it, progress becomes healthy and sustainable.

Einstein warned that our technology had outpaced our wisdom. The antidote is education that blends empirical truth with moral purpose—encouraging scientists, policymakers, leaders, and citizens to see themselves as stewards of life, not its master.

The greatest defense against technological destruction is not secrecy or power—it’s character and adaptation to change.  It’s a culture that values compassion as much as innovation, cooperation as much as competition.

Rotary’s mission— maximizing health for people and nature through service—embodies that balance. We cannot stop the evolution of technology, but we can evolve the conscience mental health that guides it. When we defend the rights of others as fiercely as our own, we make health, peace and progress sustainable.

Our shared future depends not just on what we can invent, but on what we think and what we choose to become.  A healer or insane.

The Insanity of Humanity is problem #1.

"The world we have created is a process of our thinking.  It cannot be changed without changing our thinking"." Albert Einstein.

 "The battle for the world is the battle for definitions." Thomas Szasz 

"If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." -- Samuel Adams  (1722-1803), was known as the "Father of the American Revolution."  1780

Richard Rohr wrote “God’s justice restores things, not punishes them.” His phrase implies “restorative justice.”  In our era we have allowed our government's to go in the opposite direction.  To "establishing Justice" is in the second of seven intentions in the preamble to our US Constitution and "in Order to form a more perfect Union" is the first.  Neither has done and now our nation is backsliding on justice domestically and globally while Americans are more divided now, with divisions widening more now than at anytime since the Civil War. This will not work out well.  

Unity is Possible.  But not without our collective mental health.  Yet our mental divisions are increasingly polarized. Name calling, increasing anger, and hate (a highly contagious mental virus) that is likely to escalate into violence.  In the context of 'space ship earth" 'Earth, we have a problem!"  And we have yet to identify a cure given that local, national, and global level of divisions are accelerating and we keep thinking democracy is the answer.  Remember that Hitler used democracy to gain power.  

There has been more conflicts in the last 20 years than at any time since WWII, plus 20 fewer democracies.      

Humanity stands at this intersection of insanity and calamity. One path is leading to increasing hopelessness, despair, economic debt, and environmental deterioration.  The other - to unprecedented death and suffering or human extinction.  

A third path is possible.  But it will require merging our minds (cognitive science)  and hearts (religious faiths) to comprehend what is possible - if we would just change our minds and accept our species irreversible universal interdependence.   

What connects our genetically sourced creative intelligent minds to our compassionate hearts?   Sex (and now some science techniques) enable our genes (DNA) that enable our biological hardware to be passed on to our offspring.  Mental memes (concepts, context, tools, ideas, language, words, and phases) are our social/cultural software.  These are passed along globally to minds everywhere via our travel and technology.  

The passing of memes from our mind to our inner being depends on our motivations (mental, physical, spiritual).  Every life form is genetically engineered with two fundamental drives.  To survive and thrive.  Then most minds are motivated by 'life after death', wealth, health, power, love, comfort, avoiding stress, tribal superiority, being right, being liked, looking good, feeling good, protecting nature, happiness (however they define it in their mind), or their legacy   

We now urgently need our hearts and souls adoption of a meme motivation that will mesh our biological being with mental sanity.  Uniting humankind's genetic capacity for cooperation, coordination, and compassion to the Golden Rule - empowering us to engineer a world where all people can flourish.  

If we prioritize people's mental health first, we can unite humankind to survive and thrive.  With our mind's primary motivation united our species stands a chance of creating heaven on earth.  Divided we will continue down our current path of perpetual hell on earth.  

It is entirely within our God given agency to mentally chose this path of unity.  Instead of our current mental priority of maintaining the protection of national sovereignty above that of unalienable rights of people and nature.  Our mind's need to be right about learned concepts that generate hate is literally killing us.  Wars, genocides, assassinations, mass shootings, poverty, lack of justice or compassion.

It takes only seconds to adopt a mental meme.  But it requires overcoming some of the personal and/or political truths that our minds have been indoctrinated with by people we love, admire, and respect.  

It was after the creation of nuclear weapons (and more forms of WMD after that that some people then understood the greater Truth. And in 1948 50+ nations created and endorsed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  

Since then nearly everyone has a different opinion about the validity of their truths - yet everyone's health and survival depends entirely on objective Truths.   Like gravity, the golden rule, and a child should not die before their parent, a healthy and sustainable environment.  These are vital to best ensure human safety and to minimize the consequences of ignoring these fundamental principles. 

The most urgent question is can we do this while we are overwhelmed with multiple distracting pressures.  Our minds make it easy and fast to find excuses and the faults of others.  Finding forgiveness and love all others is much harder.  

Meme adoption begins in our mind.  And we easily forget that our mind is not who we really are.  Our mind is full of various identities.  It originally evolved as a problem solving tool that adopted a variety of identities that assisted the growth and unity of the family and tribe.  Some identities were based on biology.  Many others depending on where we are, what we had learned, often changed in our minds.  Or we defended them to the death of our body.  Worse, we mass murdered others who had different mental identities because we came to fear or hate - maybe because of injustices (real or perceived) to our tribal identity. 

Who we really are is humankind. The human family.  Usually, looking into someone's eyes you can feel it in your heart.  If you can overcome your hate.  Then who you truly are is human 'being' not a human 'thinking' with time you have left on this planet.  What legacy are you truly committed to?   

What follows are simple concepts and contexts that would be valuable to learn early in life. Most humans only live about 20,000 to 30,000 days.  A wise person would want to make the most of those days.  

The first?  Everything in the known universe is made up of systems and structures. And these are founded on fundamental principles.  Think of them as "the Laws of Nature and of Nature‘s God, as expressed in the Declaration of Independence or the Golden Rule at the foundation of every religion and indigenous culture before religions.  

These are self evident truth to your mind your pathway to solving humankinds problems. There are wise souls who orient their life or profession around unambiguous words. Scientists, military people, engineers, mathematicians, accountants, and medical doctors. And others who dedicate themselves of professions that rely on ambiguous words to gain or maintain power - religion, politics, or money. 

The origin of the human mind maybe 100,000 years ago was a spectacular breakthrough for life enhancement. Its sole purpose was to solve problems. And with it - amazing creativity.

We can spend our lives, using our mind for several things. Solving problems, defending concepts, figuring out how to keep power/wealth. finding blame, love, or figuring out WTF just happened - and reacting to that.  Or just thinking about how we feel spending most of our time in our head seeking comfort.  

Unfortunately, in the 1940s a group of engineers figured out how to create nuclear weapons. At that moment some like Albert Einstein realized we are the human family.  And many of our mental constructs of nationality, religion, race, created dysfunctional political systems that we still believe can work. This is our greatest collective mental illness. A viral infection that leads monkeys who would normally just fight each other- to be an advance primates capable of mass murder.  The MAD insanity of Mutually Assured Destruction or our Species suicide. 

What what can we do to spread the meme of keeping all people and nature healthy to all humanity?   

The most important thought you need every day is don’t believe everything you think. Wake to the reality you step into - with others in your family, community, environment, city, country, and world.  A world changing so fast that neither our mind or our government can keep up with what is needed to ensure sustainability. 

The great news...there is an agreed upon, affordable, and achievable plan. It was created in 2015 as the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Until humanity unites in achieving these ASAP we will see nothing but more chaos, confusion, polarization, wars, genocide, environmental destruction, pandemics, and truth decay.

Life on this planet is the most complex and complicated system in the universe. Our immune system plus the immune system everything living thing around is second. The third is the human mind.  If it fails to adapts to our reality, a failed peace movement and our national and global governance systems - our species will lose at every turn. 

The evolution of weaponry will not stop. The evolution of government is stalled. It’s the evolution of our mind that needs to accelerate and transform back into its original mission of surviving and thriving.  Not beating others into submission or obliteration. 

This is so simple!  Religious texts have framed it as the golden rule. Yet only a few religions consistently do this.  Even indigenous cultures before religion had this wisdom, but they also often failed to practice it.   But it is hardwired into our DNA to cooperate and coordinate in engineering a world around us for the sake of our children and their offspring. Anything less and we are idiotes. As Dennis Patrick Slattery calls the "hardening of the heartaries" it blocks our "natural inclination" to be relationally and rationally compassionate.  "Courteous" rather than "confrontational".  

The persistent slaughter between Hamas and Israel is the perfect example of a religious mental construct.  A belief that a holy scripture is a real-estate manual that justifies profound hate and genocidal mass murder of others who are fundamentally biologically identical.  

Both sides have rational justifications but their leaders lack the heart in abiding by the fundamental principle in both of their religious doctrines - the golden rule.  Instead their mind cannot let go of an 'eye for an eye'.

In a book entitled Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life (2023), the author, Dacher Keltner and his neuroscience colleagues, identified “eight fundamental life experiences common to people around the globe, in whatever religion, language, ethnicity they were part of. Slattery cited their work in a January 2025 op-ed for the Herald-Zeitung. 

Responses came back in 26 different languages.  Within 2600 narratives they gathered, all responded to the same definition of awe: “Being in the presence of something vast and mysterious that transcends your current understanding of the world.” And what brought on that feeling of awe “was other people’s courage, kindness, strength or overcoming.” The researchers called this their “moral beauty and goodness of intention.”  I believe it is evidence of our mind's genetic similarity. 

How do we awaken it?  

https://www.gdpexpert.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/UN-SDGs-17-With-169-Targets.pdf

Interdependence! Most minds resists this fundamental Truth

 ChatGPT found 5 versions of the Declaration of Interdependence.  More are below:

Wendell Willkie’s 1944 "Declaration of Interdependence":  Willkie, the 1940 Republican presidential candidate, wrote a book titled One World and issued a statement calling for stronger global cooperation after World War II, emphasizing that modern nations are interconnected in economy, security, and peace.

World Federalist Movement’s Declaration of Interdependence (1945):   Issued after WWII, advocating for a form of global governance to prevent future wars. It framed interdependence as a foundation for peace.

Earth Day "Declaration of Interdependence" (1970):  Used in environmental movements to stress that humans are dependent on the Earth’s ecosystems and on one another to preserve them.

David Suzuki Foundation's “Declaration of Interdependence” (1992):  Written for the Rio Earth Summit, this poetic statement outlines ecological principles and the responsibility of humans to live within nature’s limits.

International agreements:  Some trade and diplomatic bodies have adopted versions of the phrase to affirm economic and political cooperation.

The Declaration of Interdependence: A Pledge to Planet Earth―30th Anniversary special edition published by the David Suzuki Institute, June 7, 2022, co-authored by David Suzuki and Tara Cullis.  Each edition and format urges all people to become stewards of the earth with a objective and heartfelt plea for nature’s preservation.  It is both an enlightening creed and a passionate call to action originally composed by David Suzuki and a team of activists and environmentalists in 1992 in recognition of the UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.  It offers three compelling environmental principles “This We Know,” “This We Believe,” and “This We Resolve.”  Rotary International offers global unity in doing what is now possible and urgently needed. Rotary's intention of uniting cultures, religions, and nations around the world is considering the 250th anniversary of the 1776 Declaration of Independence as a means of bringing people and local organizations together in every community globally to address their priority concerns.  This mirrors Abraham Lincolns view that the 1776 Declaration was a document 'for all people, everywhere, for all time'.  And that 'the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" urge humans to abide by which is a “self-evident” “Truths” that are simple,  ‘to take care of nature and each other via the Golden Rule’ which we have not done.  Lincoln also wrote in referencing a biblical phrase that the Declaration of Independence is our "Apple of Gold" and the U.S. Constitution, the "Sliver Frame" around it.  Some modern American scholars have asserted the 1776 Declaration is a document that represents humanity's interdependence. 

FYI:  Anyone can still sign The Global Declaration of Interdependence WE.net/declaration  joining Dr. Jane Goodall, and thousands of others  and make a personal pledge to live  its Preamble: “In acknowledgment of the many existing documents and efforts that promote peace, sustainability, global interconnectedness, reverence for life and unity, We, The World hereby offers the following Declaration of Interdependence as a guiding set of principles. It is inspired by the Earth Charter, the essential values of which represent those of the many peoples of the Earth.

The DECLARATION:

We, the people of planet Earth,    In recognition of the interconnectedness of all life 

And the importance of the balance of nature,   Hereby acknowledge our interdependence 

And affirm our dedication   To life-serving environmental stewardship, 

The fulfillment of universal human needs worldwide,  Economic and social well-being, 

And a culture of peace and nonviolence,   To ensure a sustainable and harmonious world 

For present and future generations   

‘We are the World’ sung 40 years ago in 1985    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AjkUyX0rVw&t=13s

Declaration of Interdependence   By Joyce Ramay – January 2000 (5-25-25: Sent to me by Nancy Culbert)

We declare that all human beings are members of one common race, and that we are all created as equally important and integral parts of the interdependent living universe.

That we are endowed by our Creator with the same aspirations, needs, rights and responsibilities.

That we live off the same land, drink the same water, and breathe the same air, and that it is our responsibility to preserve and protect these essential resources for our existence and our sustenance.

That the plants and animals of the Earth are an integral part of our environment and that we are interdependent with them for our mutual survival.

That we can have peace and security in our lives when we ensure that all human beings on Earth have peace and security in a world without weapons of mass destruction. 

That there are no real borders or boundaries between the peoples on Earth.

That we are by nature social creatures with an inherent ability to care and share.

That we all speak the same natural language of friendship, fellowship and love, and that even if our verbal language differs, we all recognize the language of the heart.

That we are all concerned for the welfare of all our grandparents, parents, children, grandchildren and future generations to come.

That we are capable of transcending the rubble of false beliefs that keep us fragmented, and frightened,

That we are capable of solving the problems that face us, particularly those that are primarily of our own making.

That we have it within our means to provide for a holistic education of all human beings of all ages to foster the lifelong development of our talents, skills and interests for the enrichment of human life.

That together we can provide for a healthy, happy and harmonious life for all people on planet Earth.

That by achieving our personal liberty and freedom from tyranny, we are then able to form voluntary bonds, embracing our fellow human beings, so that together we can build a fulfilling human society throughout the Earth.  

5-7-25 ChatGPD draft:  For Project 250:  A Vision for a Shared Future

In the spirit of 1776, and in recognition of our interwoven destinies in 2026 and beyond, we, the people of Earth—across nations, cultures, generations, and ecosystems—declare that our freedoms, futures, and fortunes are bound together.

We hold these Truths to be self-evident: 

That all life is sacred, interconnected, and interdependent;

That the well-being of one depends upon the well-being of all;

That liberty without responsibility leads to imbalance, and that justice without compassion leads to division.

We affirm:

That human dignity and planetary health are inseparable.

That collaboration must replace conquest, and care must replace exploitation.

That technology must serve humanity and the Earth, not dominate them.

That diversity is strength, and equity is essential for peace.

Therefore, we commit ourselves to a new covenant:

To steward the Earth and its creatures with humility and respect.

To listen deeply, speak truthfully, and act collectively.

To build systems of governance, commerce, and culture that reflect mutual respect, ecological wisdom, and shared purpose.

We do not declare independence from one another, but interdependence with all life.

This is our pact for the next 250 years.

In this 250th year of the Declaration of Independence, we declare our interdependence – with each other, with nature, and with the intelligent and Wisdom of all mankind we now guide.

I would add to this that personal and political truths vary widely.  These self-evident Truths are objective and not determined by a religious or political majority. 

The PM [??] Declaration of interdependence is a set of six management principles initially intended for project managers of Agile Software Development projects. Later on, the name was changed to "The declaration of interdependence for modern management", as it was realized that the principles might be applicable to other management situations.  After the Manifesto for Agile Software Development was written in 2001, David Anderson, Sanjiv Augustine, Christopher Avery, Alistair Cockburn, Mike Cohn, Doug DeCarlo, Donna Fitzgerald, Jim Highsmith, Ole Jepsen, Lowell Lindstrom, Todd Little, Kent McDonald, Pollyanna Pixton, Preston Smith and Robert Wysocki worked to see what management principles might be required in order to achieve an Agile Mindset in product and project management. In 2005, they published the agile project management "Declaration of Interdependence" .[1] The six principles they felt essential to modern project management (and to much of management in general).

The principles "We ...

increase return on investment by making continuous flow of value our focus.

deliver reliable results by engaging customers in frequent interactions and shared ownership.

expect uncertainty and manage for it through iterations, anticipation and adaptation.

unleash creativity and innovation by recognizing that individuals are the ultimate source of value and creating an environment where they can make a difference.

boost performance through group accountability for results and shared responsibility for team effectiveness.

improve effectiveness and reliability through situationally specific strategies, processes and practices."[1]

Our Mind is now our species greatest threat.

 

The evolution of the human mind must continue. 

Currently is it in a frozen state of  uncertainty, fear, inaction, ignorance, polarization, and infectious hate.  It didn't have this mental condition for most of our species evolution over nearly 300,000 years. 

Its original purpose gave us a unique advantage in solving problems and tool development - with our opposable thumbs.  Over the last 10,000 years (more or less) we started developing concepts that improved our tribes ability to bond and cooperate more to survive and thrive. 

1)  political concepts that would enable some means reducing/controlling violence within the tribe, village, or city. 

2) Religious/spiritual concepts that offered answers to questions our mind came up with.

3) Economic concepts helped spur trading/exchange of valued items and specialization of individuals or groups.

These enabled populations to reach large numbers, travel in large groups, and take over land or wealth of larger, smaller, or 'different' populations. This eventually creating 'larger powerful civilizations' that continued to explore other lands and conquer others who had 'different' mental concepts even though they appeared the same physically - or looked significantly different.  

Fast-forward a few thousand years and some minds within civilizations began developing defense systems and weaponry to protect or expand their borders, grow their religion, maintain their governance and/or economic system. This continues today.  

About 80 years ago some minds invented weapons of mass destruction (WMD). This was a key turning point for our species.  Unfortunately then, the most powerful civilizations (nations) failed to adopt a new governing system capable of preventing or controlling this new technological power.  Albert Einstein and others offered a rational and logical system, but the most powerful nations preferred to keep their power, weapons, and new global status.  And with the creation of the UN they locked in a governance system created about 350 years earlier with the treaty of Westphalia.  This globally established the superiority of national sovereignty over the rights of people and environmental sustainably.  Huge mistake!  Remember the catastrophic results of  the US Constitution legalizing the protection of states rights over human rights? 

Over the last four decades other forms of WMD evolved  along with other weapon systems - with every new technology.   Meanwhile, our minds collectively, failed to achieve wisdom.  Even though our extraordinary mental intelligence was capable of. it.  To this day many powerful nations still refuse to prioritize human rights and the environment over the survival of their existing governing systems. 

So our world today now has affordable mass murder weapons available to all.    And it is highly unlikely this governance insanity will change.  That window will remain closed with the fear and hatred now within the minds of so many people and nations.  Consider the fact that most people now have the capacity to weaponize anything - if their mind has will to murder or mass murder.  

It is a "self-evident" Truth that the solution to solving our species existential violence problem is in within our mind's capacity to achieve. But only of it our hearts demand that it returns to it's original purpose of solving problems to enable our human family to survive and thrive.  Instead of continuing to defend mental concepts that believe one nationality, religion, culture, or skin color is better than another.  And this mental belief deserved to dominate the world with fear just because it has the most powerful weapons, wealth, pride, arrogance, or accurate interpretation of scripture.  

Most of us don't know or have forgotten that the two primary goals of every life form on earth is to survive and thrive. Thus, our mind now needs to change if humankind has any intention of sustainably surviving and thriving for generations to come.

Hate is a mental illness unknown to other species. Fear, freeze, flight, or fight is their only option. We have two.  Talk or fight.  If we talk, words must be clear and truthful if we intend to keep violence to a minimum.  But there is one other thing equally important.  It is at the heart of every religion, insidious culture before religions existed, and even in some other social species. It is the golden Rule.  This is hard wired into our body's DNA. Unfortunately, it is our mental state that overruns or overrules this innate instinct.  Monkeys will always fight.  But only humans mass murder.   

Truth! United humankind stands a chance!  Divided by our mind's concept - we are toast. 

Time is running out for us to change our mind.  Adapt or perish. Mental health must become humankind's highest priority.   Peace of mind and community peace are both possible.  But neither will be sustained without putting the health all people, their minds, bodies, spirits, and our environment first.   

At this unique polycrisis turning point in human history our only path to sustainably maximize human freedom, security, prosperity, health, longevity, and posterity is achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals ASAP.  

In ten simple words:  Keep people and nature healthy.  Don't believe everything you think.

Become a verb!  Not a noun with adjectives attached.