D. Gardner

When I was a young child, I often wondered if I was the center of the universe and everyone was just an actor robot in my life. I know I am not the only person to have thoughts like these because of the “The Truman Show” with Jim Carry.

I have a new philosophy. I believe everyone lives in their own universe with there own rules, laws and commandments. I once heard Hyrum Smith the former CEO of the Franklin Covey institute talk about filters we all have, he explained it like panes of glass we look through as we interpret the world. However, I believe it is much more than that. I live in my own universe in my head. And I believe you are living in your own universe in your head.

What is startling to me is when people that I believe have a similar universal view continue to do things that are inconsistent with what I thought was a shared view I start to wonder what their view is and I remember they are living in their own universe of rules, laws and commandment and they are obeying their universal laws.

What is even more strange is we have our own rules, laws and commandments and then we apply a completely different set of rules, laws and commandments to others, which I believe is to mostly benefit ourselves.

I think where conflict comes from is when we believe someone is doing something that will benefit their own selfish desires at the expense of our own selfish desires. It seems most of us will gratefully have others sacrifice their desires for our selfish desires. It also seems we will sacrifice help from others because they are just preparing to take advantage of us in the future.

Yesterday I woke up with a new idea.

I hope it sparks a revolution.

I think it will change the world for the better. I know it will change race relations, police relations, and put an end police brutality in the United States.

This was motivated by my sadness because I feel helpless as I watch people of color express their feelings of frustration and feelings of despair because of the way our world and our system continues to treat them.

I also feel helpless too because I am an old white man. I know I can never understand their situation because I cannot walk a mile in their shoes. Kyle Korver said it so much better than I ever could in his article last year while he was a member of the Utah Jazz. https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/kyle-korver-utah-jazz-nba

This is my proposal. I think we should stop hiring men as police officers. I think we should only hire women and probably better to only hire women of color to be police officers.

I have come to this idea because of several things I have learned over the last 10 years of my life.

The first exposure to this way of thinking started when I learned from Mohamed Yunis the pioneer of microfinancing, that microfinancing in the third world is only available to women. I asked why, “Because women make their lives better and improve the lives of their children.” If men get more money they spend it on alcohol and sex, they don’t improve the lives of their families.

A similar thing is happening in Mexico. They have a program that pays rural farming families to have their girls go to school to create an environment that promotes the education of girls. Guess what. Only the mothers can pick up the money.

A book I read titled “The Better Angles Of Nature” by Steven Pinker points out that the world has become a much safer place over the last 50 years which is correlated with the increase in women’s rights.

As I thought about this idea more It could be carried over to politics.
This is going to be my personal initiative from now on. No matter what my political affiliation I am going to vote for and support women as candidates especially women of color.
You might ask.

How can we get women into the police force? And how to keep men out. Well, we pay them twice or better yet three times what we pay men.

Join the revolution, it’s going to start with by voting for women.