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Simple, but happy.

Anonymous

April 26, 2023

Simple, but happy.

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After almost two decades of wars, climate crisis, pandemic and economic crisis, there will be new arising of hope and togetherness. Society will be changed deeply: new forms of community, more co-living, transformed family structures, less urban agglomerates, back to a somewhat simpler but happier life. There will be more sharing of goods, spaces and "belongings" instead of consumerisms and individualism. There. will be a stronger connection, a re-connecting to core values and the sense to work and live not for economic growth, but emotional and spiritual growth. It will no longer be a narrative of "giving up" something but go "gaining" new things, when talking about how less is more... Changing the way how we live in communities impacts how we shape society on a political, ethical, societal level. Change comes from below.

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I wish respect among the people would return. People should realise that violence, arrogance, rudeness have never done any good. It's not the colour of one's skin that matters, it's what one can do. National cooperation is also important so that the people do not have to worry that someone else wants to return to the days when everything was decided by a party and a government or by a single person.
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