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Do You Have the Discipline to Tune Into the Beauty and Truth?
I think the press, including TV journalism, has an ethical responsibility, a
sacred responsibility, a service mission . . . to make good news just as
entertaining (as we’ve made sexy the violence).
— Marianne Williamson
What’s the Opposite of Muckraking? Digging up the Good News
Rob says:
There’s lots of good news out there. It’s just underreported. The violent crime rate has declined 50 percent since 1993. Every 24 hours, 200 million people make love on this planet. Levels of literacy and education and freedom are steadily growing everywhere. The world has become dramatically more peaceful since 1992, with wars, coup d’etats, and acts of genocide having declined by 40 percent. Check out the sites listed here.
Had Enough of Fail?
Succeed Blog : A collection of the world’s most epic, awesome, mind-blowing Succeeds.
Can You Think Your Way out of the Fear-Mongering?
Reality Sandwich has a variety of thoughtful perspectives on 2012.
Cast Your Lot With Those Who Imagine Redemption
2012: Time for a Change is a film presenting an alternate view of the numinous transformations ahead.
Rather than breakdown and barbarism, 2012 will herald the birth of a regenerative planetary culture, where collaboration replaces competition, where exploration of psyche and spirit becomes the new cutting edge, replacing the sterile materialism that has pushed our world to the brink.
Pronoia for the Poor
One man’s difficult quest to build schools in the wildest parts of Pakistan
and Afghanistan
Pronoia Means You Don’t Have to Stay Where You Are
Intelligent Optimism Is Reaching Pandemic Proportions
Nominate your favorite intelligent optimist — and see others’ nominations
Rob’s Good News Challenge
Rob says: “Sources of good news are proliferating. In fact, their increasing abundance is proof that there’s no longer any excuse for steeping yourself in the perverse life-hating obsession that infects the mainstream media.
“Here’s my challenge to you: For the period of one week, I dare you to refrain from sucking in the nihilism that pours out of mainstream news sources. Instead, for those seven days, get all your news from the pronoiac websites below.”
Tell Your Own Future
Rob says: “My friend Jonathan Zap has created the Zap Oracle, a source you can use to do divinations for yourself. Because he has such a cagey, interesting, and holy mind, I trust the spirit behind his oracles.
“You can cast your own divination by going here and clicking on ‘Try the Zap Oracle.'”
Do You Dare Believe the Universe Loves You?
Catch the Cosmos Doing Something Right
Jonathan Zap’s pronoia-oriented oracle card
Are You Ready to Change Yourself?
What Will It Take to Wake You Up?
A social network for collaborators in the great conspiracy to generate fountains of blessings
Benevolent Tweaks
What Will They Think of Next?
A TV show about happiness? How could that be?
Radical, Practical Optimism
The opposite of entropy is extropy.
Seeking more intelligence, wisdom, and effectiveness, an indefinite lifespan, and the removal of political, cultural, biological, and psychological limits to self-actualization and self-realization. Perpetually overcoming constraints on our progress and possibilities. Expanding into the universe and advancing without end.
Controversial, Cutting-Edge Optimism
Beyond the humanists are the transhumanists.
Humanity will be radically changed by technology in the future. We foresee the feasibility of redesigning the human condition, including such parameters as the inevitability of aging, limitations on human and artificial intellects, unchosen psychology, suffering, and our confinement to the planet earth.
Outrageous, Outlandish Optimism
http://www.paradise-engineering.com/heaven.htm
Within a few generations, lifelong bliss that exceeds any fantasized Christian afterlife can become the genetically-coded basis of our existence…Post-Darwinian superminds will go on to rewrite the vertebrate genome, redesign our whole global ecosystem, and abolish suffering and cruelty throughout the living world.
Documenting the Flood of Blessings
Good News Network
Pronoia Resources 