Keep Breathing

 Imagine your life as one long music festival except music festivals are like villages, small towns, in some people's minds whole cities.

Remember kids festivals are not just about hedonistic fun. You can eat, sleep, work. You can exercise. 

Oh watch, listen, experience live music. 

If only this could be done without money and democracy as we know it.

Well if you can think about it, then your part way to making it happen. Nothing ever happened without a human first thinking about it?

How many times did you think I would do that but never got round to it because.............

I never got round to getting up early and going for a bike ride until I did it.

I never got round to not voting until I did it.

I never ate stuff I didn't like till I did it.

I have plenty of reasons not to do stuff.

Mind doing stuff on your own is easier than doing stuff with others.

Why? Because we are diverse. Brains operate differently. Some things are not available?

Keep Breathing is a series on Netflix.

Synopsis - Woman compares her life pre- Disaster, airplane crash sole survivor on land with no communication machine, to decide how to survive.

So if many hands make light work then working together to survive could be an option. But then differences appear - what to do?

Lead, dictate, appease, default, challenge, democratize.

However, one can always do one's own thing.

Unless you are stopped by force, mind.

Many examples in history demonstrate working together, without money, to survive and thrive.

But we are programmed to want more and more so inevitably this will cause animosity, disagreement, reaction. You can ignore it, placate it, brush it off, let it go or engage.

When the dominant unseen model, possibly operated by others, is individualised then it dominates moving forward not a collective. This requires more effort. But they co-exist just one gets more air time and produces results because there are less barriers to its success.

Answering to no one is relatively easy. Be your own boss.

So if this whets your appetite send me a response

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