We often fail to consider that at any given moment, a certain number of individuals in society will possess physical and mental disabilities so severe they’re unable to work or care for themselves. At any given moment, some of us will suffer from debilitating illnesses or injury. Some of us will suffer from psychological trauma, which makes it difficult for us to function in society, let alone hold a job while we work through our mental/emotional issues. Some of us face job discrimination for the color of our skin, our age, size, sex, looks and religion. Currently, many of us lose jobs due to advancements in technology (robotics and computers), while others lose them due to job offshoring as corporations seek to increase profits by cutting labor costs.
As a society, what do we do with people who lose their jobs or are otherwise unable to pay their own way? Do we let them starve and die? You and I, and members of our family can become disabled or unemployed at any time in our lives. Are we prepared to “shuck this mortal coil” when that day arrives? Is there no other way we can add value to life other than through a “paying” job?
We tell ourselves that competition is good, that greed is good, that free markets will save us. Many of us think that life is a matter of survival of the fittest; it’s kill or be killed, eat or be eaten. Why play such an insane game when we don’t have to? In this belief system, the only question we ask ourselves is, what’s going to work best for ME, which is short sighted. In life and business, how many of us ask: is what I’m doing good? Do my actions improve the quality of life or undermine it? Do they increase humanity’s chances for survival or threaten it?
What’s Going to Work Best for ALL of Us
Instead of continuing to create a world of predators and victims, by letting thoughts of fear, separation and competition dominate our thinking why not ask: what is going to work best for ALL of us?
This question takes YOU, ME and US (everyone and everything) into consideration. It takes into account the fact that we’re both one AND separate. It also supports the understanding that we’re not only the product of creation but creation
itself.
- What’s going to work best for ALL of us in personal terms? (What is the best way for us to fulfill our own unique potential in support of the world AND ourselves?)
- What’s going to work best for ALL of us in terms of business? (What is the best way for us to maintain the health and well-being of the planet and humanity?)
- What’s going to work best for ALL of us in terms of education? (What is the best way for us to learn and grow? What are the most important things for us to know in life?)
- What’s going to work best for ALL of us in terms of the environment? (What is the best way for us to treat nature and the earth?)
- What’s going to work best for ALL of us in terms of peace? (What is the best way for us to treat ourselves as individuals and nations?)
Government IS bad when it uses public money to benefit the few and oppress the many! To keep government from effectively serving all the people, wealthy and powerful insiders (the predators in our midst) insist on privately funding political campaigns so they can exercise control over politicians, who they fund and legislation, which they write. It does not help that corporations have recently been given the status of personhood by the Supreme (?) Court and that lobbyists, business leaders and politicians have easy access to one another. When we are hungry for money, power and privilege it’s easy for us to form relationships with others who seek the same. In the process we forget our promise and responsibility to the public at large. Perks (favors and bribes) in the form of product and service discounts, free trips at corporate expense and jobs for family members, contribute to an incestuous relationship that breeds destructive policy and threatens the very existence of a democratic America.
It is important for the public to educate itself and get its head out of the ground. We are all responsible for this sorry state of affairs either by neglect or ignorance and it is time for all of us to stand up and set it right, if we care for our children and the future they will create. It is not what we have done, it i’s what we do from now on that counts!
EVERYONE deserves affordable healthcare and Single Payer is the most cost-effective way to provide it. Government needs to work for ALL of us, not just the few who hypnotize themselves and their friends with the Darwinian mantra that “life is about survival of the fittest, it’s eat or be eaten, kill or be killed.” “I’m the greatest and you’re the least.”
Responsibility (response-ability, accountability and self-development) is the path of freedom, not dominance and submission.
“United we stand, divided we fall.”
Pete – http://realtalkworld.com
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.
If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.
If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?
How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth
Only when we improve the way we think about ourselves will we improve the way we treat ourselves, and the world.
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