If I Ruled the World

Welcome to my blog post about the hippy-dippy things I would do if I ruled the world.

1. Yoga pants and a comfy t-shirt would be an acceptable form of business wear. Anytime, any day, if you don't want to suit up for work or deal with a work uniform, you have full permission to wear comfy yoga pants. Your boss is forbidden from writing you up for dressing "sloppily". Why? Because it should never be wrong to be comfortable. Happiness should never be punishable.

2. While we're talking about laws regarding dress. Crappy shoes are outlawed. No heels. No stilettos. No pointy-toes. None of that! The only shoes anyone gets to wear must allow one to go running at a moments notice. You can run in heels? TOO BAD! I'm just trying to help you to succeed here, you will never win a footrace in heels.

3. One day a week no one gets paid. No one works for money. Of course this means that probably all or most businesses would be closed depending on human generosity. So instead, we would all have to get things by asking to borrow or trade with neighbors. Think of all friends we could make on this one day. We all just take a day off from the consumerism and overworking.

4. Human labeling is disallowed. Any word that places people in a group such as race, sexual orientation, religion, clubs or class cannot be used. Instead of talking about Jeanine being an upper-class, orc-dork, white, Catholic...she is Jeanine and now you have to get to know who Jeanine is to find out what she is about. As you learn about who Jeanine is, you find out she's doing well, loves to play the cello, has light skin that freckles in the sun, dark brown hair and green eyes. She's read the Bible all through once already and is halfway through her second time. Everyone is just whatever it is they are. We'll accept one unique identifier label (first name) and that is all.

You don't get one word to tell you things about people. You get sentences, paragraphs...real descriptions! Generalizations cannot be used to talk about people. You cannot say "All brown-haired people are shy." You cannot even say "the majority" or "most". You just have to talk about people as individuals. Because guess what? They are.