A HAPPY ANNOUNCEMENT

As of 9:51a this morning, September 15, 2026, THE MESSAGE OF HOPE PROJECT has an official primary web site: the site at which you presently reside, MessageOfHopeGlobal.com. One subsidiary or "child" site, MessageOfHopeIndia.com, already existed. The parent project has existed for a year or more, in materials and activity, including operation of my volunteer, 2-person support team, TEAM MESSAGE OF HOPE.

Happy day! As the singular overall objective of THE MESSAGE OF HOPE PROJECT is to replace that which presently serves as the operational foundation of human society, money and ego, with love, properly understood, that I assert to be the most powerful force, value, and principal available to humankind. Said revolutionary shift in our social engine will eliminate the large-scale, ubiquitous pain that almost everyone in our human family suffers, to one degree or another, in one way or another. Ergo, do I routinely, and, unfortunately, accurately characterize our world as "a world of pain." Completely unnecessary pain, I always hasten to add.

Links, above, represent planned branches of this project. I focus at present on nations experiencing particular pain (Africa, Ukraine, Gaza), or misdirection of resources (Israel). At present I own one of those domains; the rest, to follow in purchase and development. Your own donation of time, or especially money, will facilitate this process. THE MESSAGE OF HOPE PROJECT, though vital, starts life as a shoestring effort, conducted under what most people would consider overwhelming personal circumstances. Ergo, your help is needed. Please do not ignore or discount this entreaty.

I am pioneering moral and political philosopher VINCENT FRANK DE BENEDETTO, founder of this project, and sole content creator across all subprojects.

My link, above, to the planned PROJECT MESSAGE OF HOPE branch in Haiti, will work in unison with my "5-Year Haiti Restoration Plan," as described at my site VINCENT FOR PRESIDENT, the plan comprising a key part of my "3-Point Plan for Brown People," also described at the site.

Haiti, an island-nation, is, and has been, a wreck, having been overrun by gangs for years now. It was recently referred to in The New York Times as a "...a war zone." Interestingly, and unbeknownst to most people, Haiti and the United States share at least one important fact in their respective histories, according to Britannica.com: "Haiti was the second country in the Americas, after the United States, to free itself from colonial rule."

Now, Haitian-Americans, and persons of Haitian origin whom have been in America for some time, many for years under the protection of our American TPS (Temporary Protected Status) program, are agitated, confused, and in increasing despair at the prospect of being sent back to Haiti, a violence-ridden shell of a nation that many of them actually never even knew. The suicide of 20-year-old Haitian-American student Pierre Damas Bel, apparently because of this Trump reversal in policy, morality, and common-sense, has been recently and widely reported.

MY IMMIGRATION POLICY

My immigration policy, as a serious presidential candidate, roots in the inscription that happily still resides at the base of our Statue of Liberty, reading, famously, in part:

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

India is appropriate for its own branch of PROJECT MESSAGE OF HOPE because of its poverty. But lest you think poverty is India's only problem--it isn't.

WE NEED A REVOLUTION OF LOVE

This site is the new home of THE MESSAGE OF HOPE PROJECT, which is the name of my multi-part, multi-platform, though thematically-unified project, to build a world based on Love, properly understood, replacing that which presently forms the basis for the operation of the world: money and ego. We don't need either! Love is powerful enough to replace both.

My work is multi-project, including these content-types:  books, music, poetry, and a political campaign, and then later, TED talks, Aspen Ideas Festival, a radio program, and socially-themed t-shirt design. The work is multi-platform, as well, providing various ways to deliver my message, including about 15 websites and 3 YouTube channels. The thematic, or theme, remains the same across the entire edifice that I'm building, that is, across my entire system; it all forms an integrated whole.

The actual "message" in the "message of hope" is that we human beings do not have to suffer. We, in our one human family, can easily cease our suffering; we can put a ready end to our pain, if we do just one thing. Just take one simple step:

We'll effect this downright revolutionary social change, call up this apparent miracle, if we eliminate money and ego, that which presently forms the bases* for the operation of society, and replace them with the infinitely superior mechanism of Love, properly understood.

*Bases, pron. bay' sees, is the plural of basis.

Of my work, book publisher Nick Wilson, stated, without solicitation:

"I've read through carefully, and I want to say genuinely: the scope of what you're building is remarkable. Not just the love book, but the coherence of the entire ecosystem, the music, the poetry, the philosophy, the political vision, all flowing from the same central thesis. That kind of unified intellectual project is rare."

"The three-part structure of the love series is exactly right in my view. What we need, why we need it, and how to get there. That's not just a book structure, it's an argument. A complete one."

"...this is not a typical book project."

"love, properly understood, is the most powerful corrective force available to humanity. That's a bold and serious argument, and the writing reflects someone who has been living inside this idea for a long time."

The "...three-part structure of the love series..." mentioned, above, by Nick Wilson, appears on this page, below, in the AGAPE TRILOGY/AGAPE TRILOGY ROADMAP section.

The term commonly used in my work is Agape [ugg gop' pay], which is brotherly love, expressed in the language of Greek philosophy. It's a common term in both Christianity and moral, if not general, philosophy. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. favored the simple term brotherhood.

Agape is the kind of Love that I, and select others, advocate.

Moreover, my work, in the form of the De Benedetto Dictum, a key part of my body of thought, easily explains every form of human transgression, including political violence. The dictum is, simply:

The code would be love, of course, what else could it be, and is required to guide us in our behavior. Without a moral code, we human beings in our behavior tend to redound to the primal level.

Please note that some domain names, here, are in transition and may not work yet. Please make a financial donation to help me pay for the new, or renewed, domain names, and other expenses. Contact me for this or any reason at onehumanfamily@fastmail.net.

There are approximately 8.3 billion people on this planet. 8.3 billion brothers and sisters. They are our one human family. And I can assure you that most of them are in pain, in one way or another, to one degree or another.

I can also assure you that this pain is ABSOLUTELY UNNECESSARY.

As described, above, this pathetic state-of-affairs can be brought to a fairly quick termination point, were we to simply do one thing. We were to take just one simple step:  START LOVING EACH OTHER.

Here are most of the "child" projects, that is, the subprojects, and related resources, that comprise my "parent," or master, project, MESSAGE OF HOPE, at whose website you presently reside:

AGAPE TRILOGY

My AGAPE TRILOGY is, itself, part of a multi-part body of work including prose (i.e. books, articles), poetry, a musical project, a radio program, and real-time in-person outreach such as speeches, interviews, and TED talks. I'm creating and promulgating this body of work in service of establishing the BROTHERHOOD OF MAN, an actualized society, that is, a quasi-utopia characterized by moral, and in my construction, technical near-perfection:

1. MORAL:  Love, properly understood, informing all social intercourse and mechanisms of governance.

2. TECHNICAL:  Competence and devotion to task informing all economic and other social operations and activity.

AGAPE TRILOGY ROADMAP

The Trilogy consists of three books under development; presently available online free in early draft form:

UNDERSTAND LOVE:  THE MOST POWERFUL SOCIAL FORCE AVAILABLE TO HUMANKIND
VOLUME #1 (WHAT WE NEED)

ALL WRONG: OUR CONTINUING GROSS MISMANAGEMENT OF THE HUMAN RACE (downloadable Microsoft Word file pending)
VOLUME #2 (WHY WE NEED IT)

THE ACTUALIZED SOCIETY:  THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN & THE END OF EGO-CAPITALISM
VOLUME #3 (HOW TO GET IT)

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CENTER FOR THE PRINCIPLE & PRACTICE OF LOVE
SITE. Probably provides the best detailed overview of my work in moral and political philosophy.

START HERE.

UNDERSTAND LOVE
BOOK. My magnum opus, a comprehensive treatment of love. New site pending. Establishes the unique thematic underpinning and informing all my work:  transition from ego-capitalism, a world based on money and ego, to the BROTHERHOOD OF MAN, an "actualized" society, in both moral and economic logic.

Ego is the presumption, and consequent behavior, that what you want is necessarily more important than what I, or others, want. This combination of capitalism and ego form the deadly phenomenon and force responsible for the pain of many kinds:  physical, psychological, emotional, spiritual, and financial, that most human beings suffer.

VINCENT FOR PRESIDENT
POLITICAL. Whether I ultimately gain office, this endeavor has great utility as an example of what a Love-oriented candidacy could look like.

POEM OF BROTHERHOOD
BOOK. Book-length poem, under development, speaking to Love, and the need to establish a love-based global society.

THE AGAPE ORDER
ORGANIZATION. People committed in the here and now to the principle and practice of Love, properly understood. Roughly analogous to the fictional Jedi Order in promotion of goodness, as well as culture, custom, and garb. Save our Force is Agape, the real-life principal, value, and force of brotherly love, referred to as "Brotherhood" by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The term Agape, pronounced uh gop' pay, is brotherly love in the language of Greek philosophy.

AGAPE ACCOUNTS
Running daily chronicle of my (and sometimes other's) works in Agape (ugg gop' pay):  "brotherly love" in the language of Greek philosophy. I keep such a record for at least three reasons:

1. I teach Agape, and we human beings often learn best and most immediately, by example.

2. To illustrate the wide range of situations and circumstances in which Agape does, or may, apply.

3. To illustrate that it is actually possible to develop what I term a "personal practice of Agape," that is, to practice Love every moment of every day, by showing that someone is actually and seriously doing it.

PROJECT CLASS: BOOK. SITE PENDING.

AGAPE ADVISOR
Real-world life advice from myself, AGAPE MASTER Vincent Frank De Benedetto, at very low cost, or, of course, free if really necessary. Site restoration pending:  your financial donation will help expedite this process.

PROJECT CLASS: SERVICE

THE DECLINE OF MIND
BOOK. Explanation and analysis of everything in the modern world that is destroying the human brain, the list now including A.I., of course. IF YOU ARE OPPOSED TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, THIS ROUGH BOOK DRAFT, AND MY CONTENT AT VINCENTFORPRESIDENT.COM, ARE THE PORTIONS OF MY WORK THAT YOU WANT TO EXAMINE.

MESSAGE OF HOPE
MUSIC PROJECT. Unique musical project centered on the same thematic as all my work:  transition from ego-capitalism, a world based on money and ego* to the BROTHERHOOD OF MAN, an actualized society. Visit the site to listen to a rough draft of what I believe will be a global smash hit:  VISION OF A WORLD.

*Ego: you think that what you want is necessarily more important than what I want.

OUR BETTER SELVES
ESSAYS. "Toward Wisdom & Love in Our Global Society" Essays by moral and political philosopher Vincent Frank De Benedetto.

GRASS NOT GREENER:  THE DARK ROAD AHEAD FOR ALL AMERICANS IF DRUGS ARE LEGALIZED
BOOK. Legalization of drugs is a key mistake in that their widespread use, especially marijuana, will erode, then destroy, the trust that any society must have to operate. Drug use also causes a destabilization or other compromise of the human mind inimical to cultivation of the capacity for, and inclination toward, Love, which society must also have to operate, or certainly to actualize, that is, to operate with all latencies and potentialities realized, and even to actualize with regard to non-love-specific spheres of societal function including the technical and economic.

KEYS TO GOOD HEALTH
SITE. The most powerful health analysis available, as it focuses on 1.) physical, 2.) emotional, and 3.) economic health. Wisdom & Insight regarding health, well-conceived, written, and researched. Small but powerful Links sections.

VINCENT'S REVIEWS
SITE. MY REVIEWS OF EVERYTHING & EVERYONE.

WRITER FOR HIGHER
SITE. My job-search website, presenting a sampler of my writing and related work. Seeking full-time employ as a writer, researcher, instructor, speaker, or related position. I possess an official state Department of Education teaching credential, authorizing and permitting me to secure employment as a Social Studies teacher.

KIDS SAY LOVE/KIDS KARE
PROPOSED SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM FOR KIDS. NO AI! The platform will neither be built, nor maintained, with AI.

Likely unbeknownst to most adults, many children are profoundly affected, and injured, by our present global disequilibria in wisdom, trust, love, and unity, as well as basic operational competence in running the planet. Witness the rise, for example, of figures like seminal child activist Greta Thunberg.

I would preliminarily offer, by the way, the person and presence of Ms. Thunberg as an example of the progress in the advance of the human mind and brain that we can enjoy, were humanity to return and restore our focus and resources back to human beings, rather than machines. Such a proper focus is the object of my new paradigm: HUMAN SUPERINTELLIGENCE, instead of so-called "machine" superintelligence.

THE HELP-HOP MOVEMENT
MUSIC. What is HelpHop? Simply put: HelpHop is HipHop That Helps!*

This innovative, seminal platform is for hip-hop artists with a positive or affirmative message, of any kind! If you are such an artist, or aspire to become one, please visit our HelpHop YouTube channel, link, above, the only place on Earth where you can JOIN THE OFFICIAL HELPHOP MOVEMENT, and get your own dedicated HelpHop promotional artist's page!

I'm going to build it for you, myself! And NO AI!

*Trademark and copyright (c) 2025 Vincent De Benedetto

DE BENEDETTO MUSIC AND WRITING STUDIO
& Philosophy Laboratory

SITE. My master personal and professional site. Includes list of just about all my writing and other projects, with corresponding websites.

NOISE KILLS (site down)
BOOK. Research proves it, and you'd better believe it. Noise means physical and psychological stress--and stress kills. Sometimes quickly; oftentimes slowly. Special emphasis on the acoustic weapon euphemized "leaf blower."

Importantly, moreover, undue stress of any kind can interfere with efforts to love, as such efforts, themselves, can be stressful, and many people simply cannot tolerate the aggregate stress.

THE FSD GROUP
SITE. THE FSD GROUP, named after my father, Frank Salvatore De Benedetto, is, itself, a fledgling company. Right now it's a comprehensive conceptual framework, in other words a company on paper, for my commercial innovation, representing and uniting my fifteen projects, each a distinct division within THE FSD GROUP. I presently maintain a group of about 15 web sites, each of which I conceived, researched, wrote, and built in hand-coded HTML and CSS. No AI of any kind was used in any phase of the creation of these websites, or any of my work. Not in search, nor research, nor in writing, or editing, nor in building the sites, themselves. I don't use AI, period, and I request that members of TEAM MESSAGE OF HOPE avoid, it, as well.

All 15 projects, or company divisions, have the potential to generate revenue. All team members will share generously in that revenue, regardless of whether they work for the particular division generating revenue at a given time, or not.

(Short Form: TMOH, pron. tee' mo)

Team Message of Hope is the noteworthy, explicitly forward-looking group of people supporting me in doing the work in prose, poetry, music, politics, radio, and TED talks, as well as related projects such as my proposed new cutting-edge social media project and platform for kids, the KIDS CARE project, required to effect a shift in the bases* upon which the world operates, from money and ego, to Love, properly understood.

In other words, Team Message of Hope is helping me craft a miracle:  BUILD A GLOBAL SOCIETY BASED ON LOVE!

*plural of "basis"; pron. bay' sees

After reviewing the list of positions, read JOIN THE TEAM, below, for further detail.

LIST OF POSITIONS

All content creation, across all platforms:  VINCENT FRANK DE BENEDETTO

Project Founder: VINCENT FRANK DE BENEDETTO

IT & Social Media Co-Manager:  Ram, Aditya

IT & Social Media Co-Manager:  POSITION OPEN

President, MESSAGE OF HOPE UKRAINE:  POSITION OPEN

President, MESSAGE OF HOPE RUSSIA:  POSITION OPEN

President, MESSAGE OF HOPE AFRICA:  POSITION OPEN

President, MESSAGE OF HOPE ISRAEL:  POSITION OPEN

President, MESSAGE OF HOPE INDIA:  Ram, Aditya

President, MESSAGE OF HOPE GAZA:  POSITION OPEN

Personal Assistant #1:  Shipman, Benjamin

Personal Assistant #2:  POSITION OPEN

Outreach & Communications Coordinator/Specialist; includes political campaign outreach:  POSITION OPEN

Local Operations Director/Manager ("Local Ops"):  POSITION OPEN

Research & General Assistance:  Shipman, Benjamin

Research Specialist:  POSITION OPEN

NOTES

All above positions, remote location OK, save Local Ops Manager, who must reside in Northern NJ.

At this early stage of the project, redundancy and overlap of duties and responsibilities is accepted and welcomed.

Honorary Personal Assistant: my beloved Cousin Keith De Benedetto, deceased at 28yo.

JOIN THE TEAM

Candidates must be in basic agreement with, or open-minded about, the objective of my work in moral and political philosophy, that informs all my projects and platforms:  creation of a love-centered world, Love (properly understood), replacing money and ego as the basis upon which the world operates.

Team members required first are Personal Assistant, Researcher, Web Designer, Outreach Specialist, and Local Operations Manager, a few of these positions having been filled, at least preliminarily. The nature of the work of all positions, save the Local Ops Manager, primarily telephone calls and Internet research, can be undertaken anywhere in the world, so the place of residence of these Team Members is of lesser importance. Nor must Team Members work a minimum number of hours each week:  five, three, or even two hours a week would be significant and appreciated. For now, these are volunteer positions; read below, however, concerning the likelihood of revenue generation.

As 1.) though love-themed, my projects are commercial in nature, 2.) and numerous and varied, and 3.) I am a unique and talented thinker and writer, as well as musician, inventor, and more, I reasonably anticipate my projects generating large-scale earnings. And when I earn big--so will TMOH members (TEAM MESSAGE OF HOPE).

Until then, positions are volunteer, although as my team member I'll have your back insofar as I can, including in terms of money. So if a given team member requires occasional financial assistance, I'll provide it. Team member Adi Ram, for example, with us for less than two months, required $150 for a necessary immediate expense, asked me, and though my own funds were limited, I gave him the money. I also gave $25 to a young man in need who had applied to join the team as my Personal Assistant, but was yet unhired. I gave him the money because he asked.

Regarding both individuals, I gave, not lent, the money. Lending makes me a banker. Giving, in happy contradistinction, keeps me a loving brother in our one human family, and keeps me firmly rooted in the singular objective of THE MESSAGE OF HOPE PROJECT--rebuilding the world based on Love, properly understood, while deprecating and eliminating that which presently powers the world, money and ego.

I assure you:  I'm not a banker. I'm a brother. In your own life, be a brother or sister, as well!

Last, for now: team members are strongly encouraged away from use of what I term in my work, MGQI ("Machine-Generated-Quasi-Information")* aka AI.

*Copyright (©) 2025 VFD.

i cry for all of us

we suffer under the weight of that which is absent

we're all in pain

we're all lost

disconnected from one another

sister from brother

each

from the other

unknowing

of the cost

i cry

for all of us

we suffer under the weight of that which could be present

gleaming board room, to grimy tenement

we're all in pain

in one way

or another

we could stop all war

the personal and the international

all that humanity should abhor

humanity dying

from neglect

entering the wrong door

technical ecstacy

a fashionable

interject

but social insanity

at the expense

of

our humanity

what did you expect

profits

prophets

to protect

is

this wise

the

tech bros

you think

they know

they?

no.

they know less

than zero

the hero

of this game

won't be a not-see

better off

old school

fling

your troubling

technology

smartphone

and ai

into

the sea

hang

with the fonz

and potsie

that

which is real and true

and proven

doesn't lie

a slave to the dollar bill

thats going

into someone else's pocket, anyway

i dont call that

groovin'

movin' to the sound

of our real humanity

our best selves

our foundational ground

four-score and twenty years ago

we suffer under the weight of that which should be present

you'd think that by now, we'd know

i cry for all of us

shed a tear for that which we should hold dear

we suffer under the weight of that which

must

be present

love

but isn't

chattel slave

wage slave

serf

or peasant

some know love, not

some do, but doubt it

some know the truth

that we can't

live

without it

we could end it all in a day

misery

and pain

our black clouds

the wet

driving

rain

pain

of every kind

crippling the

body

weakening

the mind

without love

what

do we find

disconnected

from

ourselves

and from each other

brother from sister

and sister from brother

seek

and ye shall find

we could end it all

in a day

if we would just do one thing

learn to love one another

Copyright © 2026 VINCENT FRANK DE BENEDETTO

I Cry is a section of my book-length poem under development, Love Poem.