The people over at The Free World Charter believe it’s time for that and have put together a list of facts about society we oddly accept as normal.

10 Facts About Our Society That We Oddly Accept As Normal

1 - We prioritize money and the economy over basics like air, water, food quality, our environment and our communities.

2 - We utilize an economic trading system that facilitates the death of millions of people each year.

3 - We divide the worlds land into sections and then fight over who owns these sections.

4 - We call some people “soldiers” which makes it OK for them to kill other people.

5 - We torture and kill millions of animals everyday needlessly for food, clothing and experiments.

6 - We send children to school for their entire childhood to memorize facts and skills that they will rarely use. More on education here.

7 - We impose financial pressures on parents, forcing them to miss out on vital stages of their child’s development.

8 - We have thousands of religions, each one believing that their God or god-story is the only true and unique version.

9 - Love and compassion, which promotes life, are mocked as facile. Whereas war, which harms life, is seen as honorable.

10 - Anyone with a really useful invention, can forcefully prevent others from using or modifying it.

What Would Your World Look Like?