We talk about seeds of hope. This week I saw some in an unexpected place. I watched a competition which was run where all the participants were US Air Force. They were all trying to win. But what was different was the way each of them supported each other in order that they all could achieve the best. It wasn’t about winning at all costs, it was about seeing who could achieve the best and supporting each other to achieve it.
With all the politics going on at the moment I saw this as a hopeful example. So much of our politics seems to be about winning by knocking the opposition – by attacking your opponents. So it was interesting seeing people from the USAF who were in the business of war that took a different approach.
Well done USAF, good example to us all. Very socialist of you.
It is therefore, the interest of all, that every one, from birth, should be well educated, physically and mentally, that society may be improved in its character, — that everyone should be beneficially employed, physically and mentally, that the greatest amount of wealth may be created, and knowledge attained, — that everyone should be placed in the midst of those external circumstances that will produce the greatest number of pleasurable sensations, through the longest life, that man may be made truly intelligent, moral and happy
A Development of the Principles & Plans on which to establish self-supporting Home Colonies (1841).