Merit, endeavor and sacrifice (#2081)

Imagine for a moment a world where you are the leader and everyone looks to you for guidance. What would you do to reshape what is now into what should be? What changes would you make to instill your idea of justice and fairness? In reality I will never know what this is like but I do have a vision for the future that if I could implement I would. Our society would be based upon values, not profits. We would honor dedication, innovation and creativity only as far as is healthy for our economy, our society and our environment. No one would be without a foundation from which to begin an equal opportunity path toward knowledge, health and self sufficiency. No more would privilege, nepotism and advantage be ingredients in deciding who gets to do what. Merit, endeavor and sacrifice would be the order of determining hierarchies within leadership roles. Equality without harm would rule the land and those who would devise to diminish democracy as a political structure would be subject to swift and severe penalties that no one escapes. Power and justice will always lay in the hands of the whole of us. I can see where those who have the idea for improving society actually have a voice in speaking it to the rest of us. Where our shared goal of curiosity about our surrounding environment and out beyond that, are prioritized as more important than satisfying our own private desires. I see us coming together as a species with an ethic to promote the wisest among us before the greediest among us. Where no matter where we are born or who we are born to does not factor into how we can best fit into where our destiny lies within our society. those who have the genius of thought and motivation should be our leaders and those of us who are not as gifted in those areas can still follow them while leading in our own way in other paradigms. Jealousy has no home in our society, just gratitude that life is a gift and being in it regardless of our talent is much more magnificent when we all get an equal shot at being the best of who we uniquely are, together.