What you can do already now
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
It will probably take a while until we can enjoy a fully cooperative society.
What can we do until then? You cannot implement the full set of cultural values of the cooperative society, as this would make you too vulnerable for attacks from still competing groups and individuals.
But there are some things, which can be already done now. Here are some ideas:
- Contribute to open source software in your free time
- Create free intellectual property (music, art, literature, movies, courses etc.)
- Become shameless. Become a great lover and make your partner happy
- Consider living polyamorous
- Learn not to feel guilty for your past mistakes (but try to understand what went wrong)
- Help others (including strangers) for free
- Be generous: invite friends and strangers, give things away for free
- Learn not to pretend to be a „good person by nature“, don’t try to become one.
- Become aware of the evil in you, accept and embrace it and don‘t be ashamed to have harmless fun from it
- Help others to raise kids, learn how much fun it is
- Teach kids and adults stuff you have a passion for
- Share possessions with others wherever possible (support the sharing economy)
- When you have the urge to enjoy competition, participate in sports or games
“The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion”
Richard P. Feynman