I attended a workshop tonight on “Choosing Compassion, The Paradox of Power”. I can handle one talk or workshop a week and the one I picked this week was a good one. There was a quote from Albert Einstein at the beginning about freeing ourselves from the ‘prison’ that we are something separate from other people. He says: “Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking in human kind to survive.”

Throughout history, from John the Baptist to Gandhi to Dorothy Day have called for a change of heart, a new manner of thinking and acting to survive. The call is always for everyone to believe they are part of one human family and to treat each other as family.

In the USA the philosophy of individualism runs rampart and is at the core of our capitalistic economy. In the USA socialism, advocating public or common ownership and cooperative management of the means of production , is a bad word.

In the area of professional sports owners of teams are in regular combat with players’ organizations about how to divide up the money to individual players and owners.

In major league professional sports teams in the USA there is only one team that is a non-profit and community-owned. It is in the smallest market, about 100,000 persons of any team. That team, naturally, is the Green Bay Packers football team, now the Super Bowl winners and world champions.

In Wisconsin we are all proud to be part of the Socialist Packer family. Hear the call for a new way of thinking, America, socialism works.

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