The Greatest Shift Is About to Change Everything

• My friends, can you feel it in the very atmosphere of our times? There is a stirring, a great and profound groaning in the spirit of humanity, as if the whole world is in travail, waiting, longing for something to be born.
• For thousands of years, from the very dawn of what we call civilization, we have been living under one singular unyielding rule. It is not a law written on tablets of stone, but one etched into the very marrow of our bones, into the foundations of our institutions, into the quiet, desperate calculations of our hearts.
• It is the rule of scarcity, the deep, unquestioned belief that there is not enough, not enough bread, not enough land, not enough power, not enough time, not enough love, not enough grace to go around. And from this barren ground of not enough, what has sprung? A world built for competition. We have structured our entire existence as a contest. A brutal and beautiful and terrible game where the winners take the spoils and the losers are left with the crumbs.
• Our economies, they are engines of this competition, measuring success by who can accumulate the most from a supposedly limited pile. Our education for generations it has been a sorting mechanism pitting child against child to see who is most worthy of the scarce seats of influence.
• Our politics oh so often it is a gladiatorial arena where ideas are less about collective good and more about tribal victory. Even our religions meant to be havens of the spirit have at times been twisted into competitions for divine favor for the scarce commodity of salvation. We have accepted this as the natural order, the way of the world. We have called it human nature.
• But I tell you today, this is not our nature. This is our conditioning. This is the old game, and its time is running out. Can you not see the signs? The system is groaning under the weight of its own contradiction. We have built machines of such miraculous abundance.
• machines that can produce enough food for all, that can connect every mind on the globe, that can unlock the very secrets of life and the cosmos. And yet we keep trying to fit this torrent of potential into the tiny rusted vessels of a scarcity mindset. We produce plenty yet hoarde. We connect everyone yet build higher walls. We unlock miracles yet patent them away behind gates of fear.
• The strain is showing. The fractures are appearing in the rising tides of anxiety. In the yawning chasms of inequality, in the feverish heat of a planet, pushed to its limits by our frantic competitive extraction. The old game is not just becoming cruel. It is becoming obsolete.
• It is a dying paradigm, gasping for air in an atmosphere it can no longer breathe. But here is the glorious news trembling on the horizon. This scarcity is not a law of the universe. It is a fiction of our perception, a limitation of our past tools and our isolated minds. For all of human history, our productivity has been lashed like a slave to the consumption of finite things. To build more, we cut more trees.