Posts tagged Personal
Mission and Principles

The Compassionate Humanity Community affirms:

Mission

We work to relieve and prevent suffering and make society more just, compassionate, and egalitarian — as we work on our self-development and how we relate with others as a model for the world we seek.

Core Principles

Respect for Equality

Everyone is created equal, with equal human rights and equal, infinite value. All citizens should be equal under the law. Everyone should treat others with dignity. No one should disrespect or control others due to one of their specific identities, such as race or gender.

Read More
systemicWade Lee Hudsoncultural, social, Personal, economic, environmental, politicalComment
 Goals

Goals

Cultivate justice and compassion

Assure everyone can meet their basic needs and participate fully in society

Oppose discrimination based on arbitrary traits like skin color

Strengthen unions, worker-controlled cooperatives, bottom-up hierarchies, and democratic equality throughout society

Organize peer-to-peer mutual support 

Set aside the desire to dominate and exploit others for personal gain

Care for yourself so you can better serve others

Read More
systemicWade Lee Hudsoncultural, social, Personal, economic, environmental, politicalComment
Survival, Sustainability, and Solidarity

By Randy Thomas

We are living in the world in the greatest revolution in history, a huge spontaneous upheaval of the human race. Not a revolution planned and carried out by any particular party, race, or nation, but a deep elemental boiling over of all the inner contradictions that have ever been in people, a revolution of the chaotic forces inside everybody. This is not something we have chosen, nor is it anything we are free to avoid”
Thomas Merton

Indeed, we are living in the midst of uncertain and transitional times. The life, fate, and destiny of “human civilization” and our planetary home as we have historically come to understand it is unknown. It is a time of challenge, crisis, and opportunity for all of us.

Read More
SystemicWade Lee HudsonPersonal, social, cultural, politicalComment
Moral Humanity Proclamation

The Moral Humanity Movement

Scattered pockets of positive change are transforming society into a compassionate community. Seeds are being planted.

The enrichment of cultures creates a moral foundation for systemic improvements in our major social institutions.

These structural improvements nurture personal and spiritual growth rooted in mutual support that helps individuals undo divisive, selfish, competitive, domineering socialization and form partnerships.

Increased ability to cooperate enhances the emergence of a sustained, massive, united, nonviolent, grassroots moral humanity movement

Mutually reinforcing nonviolent efforts are based on Gandhi’s principle: “Be the change you seek.”

Countless individuals and organizations contribute to the moral humanity movement — including those who don’t yet identify as members. The challenge is to deepen, strengthen, expand, connect, and unify these innovations. This manifesto moves in this direction.

Read More
systemicWade Lee Hudsoncultural, social, Personal, economic, environmental, politicalComment
A Moral Humanity Manifesto (6/30/22 Draft)

By Wade Lee Hudson

NOTE: This manifesto is a work in progress. Please review and use the form below to comment.

Scattered pockets of positive change transform society into a compassionate community. Seeds are planted. Awareness of basic realities increases. Good people relieve others’ suffering — and correct the root causes of preventable suffering. Efforts to improve public policy persist. The moral humanity movement unites these fragments and reverses humanity’s downward spiral.

Enrichment of our shared culture creates a moral foundation for systemic improvements in our major social institutions.

These structural improvements nurture personal and spiritual growth rooted in mutual support that helps individuals undo divisive, selfish, competitive, domineering socialization and form partnerships.

Increased ability to cooperate enhances emergence of a sustained, massive, united, nonviolent, grassroots moral humanity movement that persuades Washington to respect the people's will while respecting minority rights.

Mutually reinforcing nonviolent efforts are based on Gandhi’s principle: “Be the change you seek.” They liberate inherited instincts that modern societies suppress. They strengthen positive capabilities and correct weaknesses. They affirm the equal value of every individual and awaken moral commitment to compassionate action. They set aside self-centered domination and blind submission.

Countless individuals and organizations contribute to the moral humanity movement — including those who don’t yet identify as members. The challenge is to deepen, strengthen, expand, connect, and unify these innovations. This manifesto moves in this direction.

Read More
systemicWade Lee Hudsoncultural, social, Personal, economic, environmental, political Comments
Shaming, Self-improvement, and Political Action

By Wade Lee Hudson

In “The Shaming-Industrial Complex, Becca Rothfeld describes the problem: Absent structural change, self-improvement will be limited. A large network of supportive small teams whose members are aware of this problem could be one solution. In itself, this network could constitute structural reform, which Rothfeld seeks. It could also nurture a strong sense of community whose members, given their awareness of the Shaming-Industrial Complex, would logically pursue structural reform in other social sectors and, ideally, cultivate holistic and systemic transformation.

Read More
systemicWade Lee HudsonPersonal, social, culturalComment
Self-Reform is Missing

Being in the flow with a partner is a great experience, but society undermines partnership by inflaming its dominate-or-submit culture. The Democratic and Republican parties reinforce these divisive tendencies. Undoing deeply embedded social conditioning and nurturing compassionate cooperation throughout society will require sustained effort and mutual support.

With true partners, you care for the other as much as you care for yourself. The more they benefit, the more you benefit. You listen, learn, understand, and respect each other. You make decisions together, as equals, perhaps switching roles and delegating responsibilities. You’re a team. No one dominates or considers themselves to be a superior human being.

Tight-knit teams flourish at work and school, in sports, with music and the arts, and in community organizations. Members cooperate to achieve collective goals. Whole nations unite to solve problems or deal with catastrophes. Study group members teach one another. Sports team members inspire each other. Highly skilled musicians improvise, taking the group to new territory. Every member is important. Team spirit elevates performance. Throughout society, while accepting justified social control, strong individuals and strong communities cultivate empowerment.

Unfortunately, however, Americans (as is the case with humans in general) have an arrogance problem.

Read More
politicalWade Lee HudsonPersonal, socialComment
Cultivating a Moral America

Imagine a moral America. Americans treat each other as they want to be treated and respect everyone’s equal value. If you live elsewhere, imagine the same for your country.

We love our country, live good, compassionate lives, care for others as we care for ourselves, avoid both selfishness and self-sacrifice, improve ourselves and the world, are politically engaged, work to undo racism and all forms of oppressive domination, and nurture partnerships throughout society.

Read More
systemicWade Lee Hudsoncutural, social, Personal, economic, environmental, politicalComment