I'll confess I haven't dreamed
City of Heroes in a while, tho here on Titan the images come flooding back to me, especially my vigilante Grav/Storm Warlord Chang (who described himself as "pragmatically heroic.") Of late what I dream of--beyond the fantasy of us all getting past the illusion of race and a total cease fire in the "battle" of the sexes--is to somehow capture conceptually in my pea-brain the Win-Win paradigm shift we all need, and then release it. In my dream, if even one of us can think of the ultimate Win-Win, then human civilization and society advances, perhaps even the species itself. (Yes, I can say "grandiose" and even keep a straight face). Please hear me out. If Win-Win is thought of, then there shall be no need for Win-Lose. Under Win-Lose, all too often even the "winner" loses out, gaining far less than Win-Win would convey. Thus optically Win-Lose is really Lose-Lose, only with varying degrees of loss of and suffering. Under Win-Win (as operationally defined) no one loses, all befit, former winners win more, and "losers" have even more to gain. Beyond some very rough noodling and thoughts about organic modeling, I'm not there yet; nor even sure it's attainable, merely 100% certain it's worthwhile and where we as a planet need to get to, else we just keep on repeating the same near endless cycle (can you say boring even amid myriad variation?) So that's my dream, and I'm not even wearing tights or a cape, just some rather pedestrian clothes.
Oblique references: Sociology, Anthropology, Genetics, Biodiversity, Neuro-diversity, History, Pre-History, Civil Rights & Obligations, Social Organization (multi species), Biology, Ecology, Religion/Spirituality, Psychology, Language/Communication (the last two because we'd have to "market" and "sell it")
Peace Out, Titans. It's time I wander away to ponder and blog elsewhere for awhile.
