This morning, I dreamed a dream, a very powerful dream, so much so that, a hour after waking I still remembered much of the core aspects of it.

One such aspect was a speech. 

I was standing in front of a vast assembly of people from all walks of life, experience, religion and culture. It was a gathering of representatives of tribes and nations. I was the first speaker. I was the one to set the tone and encourage all to listen to all who followed. 

This is the speech, as much as I can remember, that I gave to the broad assembly, in the dream. 

I wonder, what speech you would give, if you had the opportunity to deliver such a speech in front of a vast array of ordinary people representing, their friends, families and communities? 

What would you say?  

__________ Words of Change __________ 

There are two things on which all communities throughout the world are founded: agreement and cooperation.

Without Agreement, there can be no cooperation. Without Cooperation no agreement can be fulfilled. Everywhere we turn, nations are collapsing into civil unrest, uprising, discord and conflict, indeed the fabric of cicl society seems to be unravelling, threatening to destroy the very heart of it's foundation: the family unit. For you see, all society is based on an initial agreement. An agreement between a man and a woman. An agreement to stay together, be together, to work together for mutual support and survival. And from such an agreement, whether between man and woman, woman and woman, or man and man, communities can be formed which function and support themselves in a fashion, for a time, e.g. monasteries, nunneries, armies, single gender villages, history is rife with such agreements and communities built on them.

However, there is a second agreement that is made between a man and a woman that has set the fundamental unit on which all social growth, prosperity, customs and ancestral heritage is based and that is the agreement to have children together. Without a child in the mix there is no agreement for future growth. Thus, the core unit of all of today's major societies is the family unit consisting of, mother, father and child. The child is the spearhead of the future, the parents the foundation, the past, and together by agreement, and cooperation all three work in the present to bring about a future for the child and the family. The past, the future and the present, bound together by a group consensus to create a single strong unit, so strong that nations have been built upon it.

Today, we stand here, because discord and disharmony in the global community threaten to pull apart the very threads that tie our tribes, and villages and communities together, conflict that threatens the very fabric of society and the safety and prosperity of our families, threaten to destroy and tear asunder the very futures we have planned for and worked for, for our children. We are here today because the agreements have been broken. Our leaders are no longer in cooperation with us, they have become dictators and despots, demanding that we fulfill their desires and whims, whatever that may be, that we work and toil for their personal gain, without question, or rebuke. New rules, new cooperation, imposed, enforced, not negotiated or negotiable.

When such a breakdown occurs, we need to look deep within ourselves and into the structure, organization and agreements in place within our families. Have we become the very same despots and dictators within our own families? Are the agreements that brought about a cooperation between a man and a woman the same ones that still apply in our families or have these too changed? Have we lost sight of the picture of the future that brought us together in the first place? For it is from the family unit that all society is based and the rot at the top, can also rot the core.

If we are to change this community, this society, this nation, then we must first confirm the rules of agreement and cooperation in the family, from there stems all future change at all levels. Today, we are here because we agree that there is a need for change. We recognize the need for change, but as yet we have not yet determined the rules that define and constrain any cooperation between us necessary to bring about that change. So, first we must ask, what does that change look like? What will it mean for us and our children? What kind of future will it bring forth?

I don't know, and many won't. However, I can categorically say this, it will not look the same as what we can see today. What little we can see, into the future, that bleak and uncertain future predicated on the conflicts of today. It will not be the same! It mustn't. It is not a future I want for my child, nor would I wish it on your child, not on anyone's.

So, what to do? Where do we go from here? We agree that there is need for change,that there is need for a new cooperation between us, but what should be part of that cooperation? Part of the agreement? The new rules of engagement? And what should be the rules of engagement if we cannot agree to cooperate? Because, even disagreement and conflict are based on the agreement to disagree, and there are rules to how any conflict can, should or ought to be resolved, even such rules come as a result of an agreement.

But let us not talk of conflict and disagreement, let instead seek a way forward, a way to cooperate and bring about the change we agree needs to be implemented to secure a safe, secure, comfortable, empowering future for our children and this society in which we live. Let us begin now to build this future that we desire so much. Let us go forth in the spirit of cooperation and establish our own, new, future built on the strength of family, kinship, mateship, solidarity, tolerance and harmony.

It is up to you, to make this start, to begin in your home, and in your village and in your community, to bring all these small necessary and independent actions together to build a new society, a new nationhood and global community. Listen, listen well to the wisdom of our key speakers today, they have a vision they wish to share with you, and with your families. Please listen to them, consider, and respond, for without discussion, there can be no basis for agreement, no basis for cooperation and no way forward.

It is now up to each and every one of you, to look forward, with an eye on the past, to take up an idea, build strong a vision for your families and from that create a brand new future for us all.

Be Resolute & Be Brave.

All of you know me. Listen well, for I am "The Herald of Change."

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