Conclusion
A new golden age is possible within our lifetime. It might take a couple decades, or perhaps we’re ready much sooner than that.
There’s a book, The Fourth Turning by William Strauss, which talks about the seasons that countries go through. Spring, summer, fall, and winter.
It’s based on the idea that strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create bad times. Bad times create strong men
America and the West right now is in winter. Bad times created by weak men. We’ve been here for a while. It’s tough. Nothing new grows.
But after winter comes spring.
We’re so ready for springtime. Or what I call a new golden age.
But it’s going to require us men to be strong. That is the cycle of life.
First, we have to heal.
We have to heal individually, and we have to heal as a people.
As individuals, we need to find the love we seek in our own hearts, to realize that we never needed love or money or anything else from anyone, in order to be full of joy and life. That all of our suffering comes from our own minds.
As a people, we need to remember that we are all one. We’re all human. We’re beautiful and we’re flawed. And we belong together.
Your neighbor is not your enemy. Your uncle is not your enemy. Your aunt is not your enemy. Your cousin is not your enemy. Your coworker is not your enemy. Your barista is not your enemy. Trump voters are not your enemy. Kamala voters are not your enemy.
If there is an enemy, it’s the parts of the government and the media and the powerful, shadowy forces that have controlled our lives for so many years. The blob.
Forces that keep the current system in place through intimidation, murder, “suicide”, blackmail, bribes, prostitution, pedophilia, and worse.
They control us by gaslighting, medicating, and drugging us out of our minds, by exploiting our greed, our sex drives, our weaknesses, our lack of integrity, our confusion, our group think, our cowardice, our lack of clear thinking, and our reluctance to forgive ourselves and each other.
It is time to retire those shadowy forces. To make it clear to them we’re not under their spell anymore. We’re not afraid of them. We don’t buy their bullshit lies anymore.
We’ve seen the man behind the curtain.
And we’ve realized that he, too, is not really our enemy.
He’s just a collection of broken people who are doing the best they can, given what they believe.
If we believed what they believe, we’d do the same thing.
They too are innocent children at heart, broken by what was done to them.
They are weak, hurt, and broken people.
We don’t need to fear them. They need our empathy and our forgiveness.
And they need to never be in a position to hurt others again.
We now know what no one can ever take from us: our integrity, our love, our truth, and our freedom.
We need to heal and forgive and reclaim lives of integrity.
We were born into integrity, but we learned from an early age to override our feelings and allow ourselves to slide into a life out of integrity.
As children, we make an unconscious bargain with our caretakers: I will be who I think you want me to be if you will keep me safe.
For a lot of us, who we thought we had to be was someone who could cope with being out of integrity, despite how awful it made us feel.
Don’t speak up. Don’t stand up for anything or anyone. Duck your head. Just do what’s being asked. Don’t make a ruckus. Collect your goodie bag and live to fight another day.
That model brought us to where we are today.
It’s not going to bring us to the new golden age.
Men, it’s time to grow a pair.
It’s time to find your backbone.
It’s time to come clean with your loved ones. Correct all lies, say what needs to be said. You know what it is. Just do it.
There may be consequences. Those consequences may be really unpleasant. But I promise you: Life is always better on the other side. Anything is better than living a lie. You know it in your heart.
It’s time to speak up. To stand up for what’s right. To find the courage to do what you know you must do.
Men were put on this earth to procreate, protect, and provide.
So men, let’s do it.
Everyone’s future depends on us.
My Dream
Here’s my very personal dream scenario. I’m going to put it out there in the hopes that someone will see it and help connect me with the right people to make it come true.
First, I hope Trump wins this election.
I believe he will, despite the Democrats' inevitable cheating. Yes, I said it.
If he does, I would love to work with his administration, with Trump himself, Don Jr, RFK, JD, Elon, and the rest of them, on healing the nation, establishing a trusted source of shared reality, and building a blueprint for the future.
I’m not looking for a job. I don’t want to be paid.
I’m looking to make the greatest contribution I can to this beautiful nation that I love with all my heart.
In my ideal government, none of this would be the responsibility of the government, so maybe we do all of this outside the structure of the government. Or maybe we just recognize it’s not where we are today, and we work within the system. I haven’t made up my mind on this.
Healing the Nation
As for healing, I envision doing an official White House podcast or show where we bring on some of the best coaches, counselors, guides, mentors, and spiritual teachers in the world, to help people make sense of their lives.
People like Byron Katie, Peter Crone, Gay Hendricks, Tony Robbins, and many more that I know, and even more that I don’t know yet. Let’s bring the best help that we can to help the people heal.
We’ll bring people on live to work through their feelings with us, like I do today on my coaching calls with my clients.
People who are terrified of Trump and his election win. People who believe he’s literally Hitler. People who are struggling to pay their bills. People who are sick.
And we listen to them and understand them and offer them healing and love and connection.
Trusted Information Source
The second critical piece I’d like to contribute to is a trusted source of information about our world.
Similar to what Elizabeth and I are doing with our United we Talk podcast, we’d get sane people from across the political spectrum to look at the world together, and we’d hire researchers to investigate the details of claims from both sides, to arrive at a shared set of facts and a narrative that most of us can agree on.
Maybe sometimes we have to resort to two narratives, because there’s just no path to agreeing on one. That’s possible. But let’s at least try for one.
We take credible allegations from every side seriously. We don’t dismiss things we haven’t looked into or don’t know. We don’t make claims we cannot back up.
We obviously cannot investigate everything, but we can pick the ones that seem to matter most to the most people and look at them honestly.
I think this is simpler than most people think, and I cannot believe that no one has done this. Or if they have, I just haven’t seen it.
I think if we got people from the Trump admin together with some prominent but sane people who are not fans of his, we could do something really valuable and healing here too.
Because behind all the lies and obfuscations and confusion, we all want the same thing.
Americans are generally really good people.
Operating System for the Golden Age
The final part of my vision is the Operating System for the new golden age.
A blueprint for humanity, if you will.
I mentioned before the difference between the operating systems of North and South Korea, or of East and West Germany that Elon Musk pointed out.
Same people, different operating systems.
Night and day difference.
For the last year, I’ve been working on what I call Simplero OS, a collection of operating systems for different parts of life.
Simplero Health OS, Simplero Mind OS, Simplero Team OS, Simplero Clients OS, and more.
I do my best to combine everything I’ve learned from all of the teachers I’ve studied with, and most importantly, to figure out how it all fits together.
What does Gay Hendricks say about changing beliefs? What does Tony Robbins say? What’s Peter Crone’s approach? What do they agree on? Where do they differ? Which approach is better, under which circumstances?
What about health? What do we know to be true about diet, exercise, disease, healing … collect the best information from the smartest people all over the world and catalog it for the benefit of mankind.
The future’s already here but it’s not evenly distributed yet. Let’s gather it, simplify it, and then distribute it.
Back 20 years ago when my first wife was pregnant with our daughter, I took on the chore of cooking for the family. I was a terrible cook, but after cooking seven days a week for five years, I got pretty damn good at it.
One of my techniques was to look for ten different recipes for the same dish to compare and contrast. What’s the same and what’s different? I’d test things out. What happens to the flavor and the texture if I do this? What happens when I do that? After a while, I’d arrive at my perfect version of the recipe.
That’s the idea behind the Operating System for the Golden Age.
Let’s bring together the greatest teachers in the world, and together build out operating systems based on the best that humanity knows at this point, for all the most important areas of life: mind, health, diet, exercise, business, nations, communities, economy, regulation, immigration, and so on.
Just like real science, it’s a living document, always open to better “misconceptions”.
And it’s fully open source.
We share it with anyone in the world, so they too can improve their lives, their health, their mind, their nation, their community, their business. And they can “fork” it and make their own version and contribute “patches” back to the central repository.
That way, any country or person or organization can take any one of our operating systems and adapt it to their culture, values, and needs.
Realizing JFK’s Dream
This is how we can realize JFK’s vision for peace in the world:
What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave.
I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children--not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women--not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.
Let’s stop meddling in other countries' business, and instead inspire all men in all nations to rise to the call for freedom, power, and truth, for the benefit of every man, woman, and child all over the world.
Don’t get me wrong. There will always be people who do bad deeds. I’m not naive about this, and they need to be restrained so they cannot cause harm to others.
But I believe the vast majority of people on this planet want to live decent lives, in good health, doing work they can be proud of, with people they enjoy being around, and sharing beautiful moments with their loved ones.
This can indeed be the reality for humanity, and the structure that makes that simple is within our grasp.
A Call to Grow Up
We must end our addiction to low-rung politics. To shaming and name-calling and ridiculing regular people on the other side. We must make honest efforts to understand where they’re coming from.
Your neighbor, your family member, your coworker, they’re not your enemies.
We must end our addiction to victimhood, the desire to plug our umbilical cord in somewhere, to stick our heads in the sand, and hope this madness blows over.
Own your power to create your own life the way you want it.
Question the beliefs that cause you stress and suffering. Calm your nervous system.
Stop poisoning yourself with toxic food and drugs. Get enough sleep and exercise.
Connect with yourself, with spirit, and with other people.
Restore a sense of peace and ease. It’s been a long time since most of us felt that. So much stress and fear all over.
That is the first
and most crucial step. If you’re in stress, you’re not fully functioning. When you’re in fight or flight, your prefrontal cortex doesn’t function properly, your body cannot heal, your life doesn’t work. We’re not designed to be stressed out all the time. It kills us. It makes the blob rake in the dough.
At the same time, face reality.
Face the truth about your life, and how you’ve created your current reality. About what you want, what you need to do to get there, and what trajectory you’re currently on.
Face the truth about the world. What’s really happening, who’s pulling the strings, what’s true and what’s not true, what’s knowable and what’s not. What’s really going on? Get curious. Question. Listen.
As your nervous system calms down and your health improves, you’ll have more capacity to do this.
Build Yourself
Second, you need to build yourself up.
Do the deep inner work. Face your shadow. Heal your inner child so you can grow up to become a healthy mature adult.
Build your physical strength and cardiac capacity. Develop your mind and your wisdom. Acquire new skills and knowledge.
Develop the timeless qualities of self-discipline, humility, strength, courage, and integrity. The reason we’re in this situation is because of a lack of these qualities.
As cultures, we’ve become mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually weak. We want a pill to mask the symptom, we don't want to exercise or eat healthy. We are cowards, afraid to speak up when it could anger someone. Afraid to stand up for our values, our beliefs, ourselves, our families, and our communities. Or we overreact and scream at other people and manipulate to meet our needs.
We’ve become easily corrupted with promises and threats.
We can do better.
We must do better.
Third, we start building towards a new, empowering vision for our future. One that supports human flourishing. One that values truth and integrity. One that creates the conditions for people to be happy, healthy, prosperous and safe. For a thriving economy and a thriving planet that can sustain life for millennia to come.
Rethink everything our governments currently do. Rethink how we as a society achieve the things we want to achieve together.
An efficient government working for its citizens will free up so much life force energy which we can then invest in love, creativity, health, wealth, relationships, contributing to others, or just enjoying our damn lives.
We deserve that.
The Role of Men
I believe men in particular have a huge responsibility to create this future for all of us.
I know it’s against the zeitgeist to say these things, but men and women are different. Women make babies. Men cannot. We have different wiring, different biology, different strengths, and different responsibilities. We’re different.
It is the responsibility of men to create the structures that keep everyone happy, healthy, prosperous and safe. To provide and protect. That is our sacred obligation to our tribe.
Right now, we men are failing miserably.
We can do better.
We must do better.
Our women and children deserve better.
We deserve better.
Heal the boy and the man appears. We need to become the healthy adult men who can build a positive future.
It won’t be easy.
But it will be way more rewarding than you can imagine.
It’ll pay off not just in politics and society, and not just in the future.
It’ll pay off in every area of your and your family’s life, and it’ll pay off right away.
This is the reason I see it as one of my main contributions to help men become healthy, mature adults. I’ve done this work myself for many years.
I will publish a book for men titled Be the Dad You Never Had, showing men how they can reparent themselves, and heal the boy, to become the men they’re meant to be.
This is how we usher in the new golden age … one healthy, strong, courageous man at a time.
Because it won’t happen by accident. And it’s certainly not something the man behind the curtain will bestow upon us.
It’ll require all of us, men and women, to heal, to grow up, to grow strength and courage.
More than anything, it’ll require us to live in integrity.
I hope this book has inspired you to do so.
LFG!
–Calvin Correli
New York City
October 17, 2024
