Skeptics locked into seeing life through the prism of the present

Skeptics of the Four-Hour Work Day are unable to escape the mindset that limits their gaze to what the can see through the prism of the present.

Life tomorrow will be decidedly different from life as it is, and so looking at it, and considering our response, then it quickly becomes apparent that in having such a limited view is pointless in the extreme.

Complications, diverse in impact, but common in root cause all spring from our abuse of our planet’s life support systems and beyond, and within that, our irresponsible access to, and use of, the earth’s finite resources.

The Four-Hour Work Day is little more than a beginning, a first step in fracturing the nexus between population, consumption, wants and needs and rampant individualistic egos.

Introduction of the Four-Hour Work Day would undoubtedly be difficult, challenging and almost beyond the comprehension of a society that originally evolved at almost at a geological pace.

That was, however, until man discovered how to unlock earth’s ancient sunlight resource (fossil fuels) a couple of centuries ago and the pace of life accelerated significantly.

Those activities, as is the case with everything we do, had unintended consequences.

Behaving as if the resource constantly replaced itself, we lived with a rather loose abandon and so have nearly exhausted those resources and to really complicate matters, have changed earth’s atmosphere bringing upon us unpredictable and destructive extreme weather events.

We now need to change how we go about things at what in modern terms might be called “warp” speed.

The time for negotiation is long past; our resources are drying up, our funds are drying up and as we stand in what could easily become a wasteland unless we act, we need to exercise the human spirit before it too dries up.

Rather than devote scarce time, energy and funds trying to protect the comforts we once had, it is time to apply those resources to creating a world that will provide succour to all.

That drive to achieve a degree of cheer, bolstered by the reassurance that the broad interest of society is not in growth or profit, but the general wellbeing of all.

The first move, demanding generous and athletic thinking, is the introduction of a Four-Hour Work Day.