What is the perfect way to respond to an insult/confrontation?

[Patrick]

The first one is the push for a true Free Market.  This one is very popular, especially in the west.  There is a lot of info out there on how this could solve many systemic problems.

I don't know anything about this idea. I read that it is a market with no government controls. The concept of government control is a subject unto itself, rife with corruption. But I wonder, would that then make it possible for a business to steal a trademark, perform cruel acts on people or animals, pollute the environment with toxins?

There would be no intellectual property and so no copyrights and no patents.  They basically believe that in a true free market, people would truly be able to vote with their wallet.  I am not attracted by the idea myself.  However you get to have more money, it gives you more "vote" and then more power.  In my opinion, the Elites would have a field day with that one.  Maybe that is why this is the more popular choice.  As in welcome the new boss, same as the old.  But my brother follows this movement and assures me it is the solution.  Can't see it myself, but we never know.

...I think creativity, compassion for others, seeking higher consciousness will all flourish.

Yes I agree and that is my preferred route as well.

Covid actually gives us a good opportunity to enable changes in this regard, we could hijack the system shock the Elites have created in order to bring about faster positive change instead of the changes they wanted to bring via this shock.

There is the concept of inertia involved here as well, which may work toward helping any good change to happen, just from the mere fact of there being change in motion, even if it's not related. The whole world has had to change and adjust to the situation at hand, and been forced out of a routine. So, in that respect, COVID-19 has initiated a more malleable mindset, not quite so entrenched in a way of life that the mind does not want to let go of—like a piece of clay that has softened and now can be shaped into something else. Whether this goes the way of the STS in control, or the way of STO at this juncture, remains to be seen. But one really good thing in my opinion is a small dismantling of the typical work environment, based on everyone being in the same place and observed all the time. More self-responsibility and accountability is required when one works at home, and this is a step ahead in consciousness. 

Here in Canada, I wrote my representative about supporting UBI and actually got a real response written by the person himself saying that my opinion would be forwarded to our finance minister, where I was sure it would be thoroughly ignored.  But a couple of weeks after, our senate collectively wrote a letter to our primer minister asking to implement a UBI.  That was a temporary UBI for the time of the Covid only, but still.  Instead our government put something so much more complex and that you cannot get if you accept work, so of course many people prefers not to return to work in order to keep this.  A UBI would have taken care of all those issues as well as making it much simpler.  People could have gone back to work and still keep that extra Covid money.  But I think they are afraid of having even a temporary UBI since it would probably demonstrate too much success.

Still I think it will happen.  Support is growing for a UBI by the minute.  The real stopper are the financial "experts" just not getting how we could afford it.  These guys are so far in the indoctrination that they just can't see the forest for the trees.