Did I mention how much I LOVE this thread?!
Thank you so much for starting it. I have really enjoyed reading the posts and find myself thinking of even more ideas after I've logged off while doing mundane things like washing the dishes. *L*
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Originally Posted by shortyz504
How about in our next society, we place a big emphasis on music and try to get everyone to learn to play and instrument, sing, and dance.
Not only learn to play, but evolve past the professional mastery, but where we are all so musically talented that we only communicate in the form of a musical production.
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YES!! 
Wouldn't that be amazing? I never learned to play an instrument and it used to drive me bonkers that I couldn't write music as in my late teens/early 20s I'd sometimes wake up having songs in my head and would sit there desperately trying to figure out how to get the melody written from the basic music theory I learned in grade 4! HA! Music is crucial to people's well-being, as far as I am concerned. It would be fantastic to have it be more integrated in every day life, something that children just learned and participated in as they grew up.
And dancing, well...wow. I used to love to dance. I haven't danced since I was a little girl.
On the subject of envisioning the world we want, here's a blurb I sent in a PM to someone this evening:
You know, when I originally decided to think of what my ideal future/world would be (about a month ago, in bed, before falling asleep, after watching some online interviews), I was actually shocked at how difficult it was initially to let my mind go there. My mind would wander off onto day-to-day worries, or I would find myself immediately nixing the idea/vision because it was "not realistic" and "could never happen". I had to repeatedly tell myself that it was ok to let myself imagine what I wanted even if it seemed unrealistic, and I had to approach it like a game of make believe to make my mind stop veering off to other things. It took a few nights of this before FINALLY I could stay with the ideas and flesh them out a bit...and then I started to get excited about what I was imagining. It became irrelevant, not knowing how the ideas would come to pass, or even if they would.
Has anyone else had this experience? It being difficult at first to allow yourself to think of the world being drastically different (better)?
Nenuphar