“IF—“ Re-Imagined

Here is a self-actualization manifesto, compiled mostly from the writings of people who themselves came close to reaching that level of human development.

Credits:
Background music: Jay Unger, Ashokan Farewell
Performers: Jay Ungar and Molly Mason
Reader: Donna Nissani
Video montage: Maria Ignateva
Background image: Auguste Rodin, The Thinker

Lyrics Inspired for the most part by:
Confucius, R. Buckminster Fuller, Eugene Debs, Rudyard Kipling, Walt Whitman, Bertrand Russell, New Testament, W. H. Davis, Democritus of Abdera, John Donne, Pericles of Athens, Thomas Jefferson, Marcus Garvey, Anton Chekhov, Martin Luther King, Jr.

Singing Poetry Project, Conceptualization and Oversight: Moti Nissani

Recommended Reading:
R. Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path.
Democritus of Abdera, cited in: Daniel W. Graham, The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy, pp. 672-681.
Eugene Debs, The Canton Speech, Statement to the Court.
https://jacobin.com/2020/06/eugene-debs-statement-court-sedition-act-september-1918
Bertrand Russell. A History of Western Philosophy.
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass.
Martin Luther King, I Have a Dream.
https://www.npr.org/2010/01/18/122701268/i-have-a-dream-speech-in-its-entirety
Moti Nissani, Eight Billion Cheers for Direct Democracy.