A REASON FOR HOPE

By using their new three-part brain to create ideas, and developing their new potential for speech, our first human ancestors began an experiment in cooperative living. It was to share their new ideas by learning to "talk" to each other, form and carry out cooperative group plans of defensive action, and thereby increase their chance for survival and happiness in a dangerous world.
This "Human Experiment" worked very well. Their shared, cooperative ideas became the first culture, a unique human invention that guided their group thinking and behavior in a cooperative direction, and put them on a highly successful course for a long time.
Then their descendants unknowingly altered their Cultural Process and put themselves on the self-destructive course on which we find ourselves today. How did that happen, and how can we now regain our successful course? The answers to these questions will be presented in this blog, and they offer us humans "A Reason for Hope."

PLEASE NOTE: Out of my experience in WWII has come the rest of this blog, so to understand it all it is necessary to begin with Part One by clicking below.

About Me

hello from Jim


I was eighteen in 1943, when I entered my wartime service.





And here I was more recently, with my granddaughter, Lily.





















The local newspaper cropped that photo for their story.





I'm 87 years old, and here, in this blog, is the material it took me decades to research and write. After always working on my own, I got the idea of putting myself on Facebook because it is global, and of putting a link on it to send Friends to a blog, but I didn't know how to go about it. Then I met Christene, and she volunteered to help! She created the blog, and put all the pictures on it, and did the underlining, and everyone says that it all has made my World War Two story much more interesting and understandable than did plain text.  Yea Chris! and my eternal thanks. Her creating the blog has made it possible for me to join the river of humanity on the Internet so that my life's work shall not wither and die.

In my quest to understand war, and how the human species could have gone so wrong, I learned that we did take a disastrous wrong turn in the past, but now we finally have the knowledge and the tools to put us again on our successful course. This is my work today: reaching out to you to share what I've learned, and inviting you to share your own wisdom with me and with others. Explore, comment freely, follow, share the site with your friends, join the Team and let's work to return humanity to our former course. I truly believe that recognizing the continuing status of the  "Human Experiment" and sharing information about it on the global communication system is a vital step in our human evolution.


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