I wrote this maybe three or so years ago. I just read it again. It's a hopeful tale. We could use a few of those.

"The Day"

One day it just stopped. We all just stopped doing it. The cruel selfish mean things stopped. No sparkling lights no Angels around. It just stopped.

You know how some would step over the homeless, and hungry all that. The bad stuff everybody always said they were against yet allowed to keep going. Well it stopped.

At first I didn’t notice,…exactly.

Till I went to a Chinese take out joint, and they fed me,…for free.

Btw I went back, and gave them an “Astro Boy” action figure in thanks. This is going on as ya know. People exchanging things. Not barter exactly. Just a nice sharing.

Police began taking homeless persons home to stay with them. That, and releasing those they knew were wrongly busted. Firemen took poor folks into their stations. Treating them like family. The News became very funny. Them jokers was all coming clean about lying to us.

Fancy stores, and regular shops began giving stuff to folks.

Not just the poor, but all of us. Like at the Chinese place. Where they told me, “…everybody has to eat”.

Btw none of that “Black Friday” greed festival stuff ever happened.

All this, and somehow the economy still worked,…better than ever. It wasn’t just us. This was happening all over the world. I mean I was watching that BBC special about how our aircraft carriers are being converted into grain ships.

The government, and president had nothing to do with it.

The sailors, and farmers just got together figured it out, and did it. A lot of this going on. Like them big Israeli Iranian water purification projects in Africa, and other places.

Mind you as you knows too well. Folks is still folks.

We still have all sorts of assholes running around loose. Just not as many, and they’re not in change anymore.

As for “The Day”, and what the hell it means.

Well the surprise was that we’ve been in a post scarcity world economy for near a hundred years.

Some of them wonks think longer. We’d been in a hand to mouth boom bust war genocide tradition for so long we just didn’t know how to share.

Predatorily capital, and Soviet style communism were signs as to how wrong we were getting it, but were too stupid to see.

So one day it just changed.

Basically all at the same moment.

Some religious types think it’s some deity or other. However the smarty pants online, and TV call it an Evolutionary Awakening. Sort of like when the ability for language suddenly spread all over the place. They think we’ve had this cooking up for a very long time.

Sort of explains the peasant revolts through history. Abolition Women's rights even hippies, and similar attempts through the centuries. One day like a genetic log jam it burst. Works for me.

Though I’m still holding out for some Angel stuff somewhere.

All I know is I finally got to open a free book store, and hobby shop.