Nowadays we - as a mankind- stay
before very hard decisions and problems which will affect our future and those
who will come after us. Our perception, our point of view, which we have been
raised in force us to believe that everything is normal and as it should be,
that it was like that many years before and will be many years ahead, and it is
good. Is it really? Please listen to this wise little
girl:
The thing is even deeper. We have
crisis not only of economy, but also of ‘humanity in humanity’. We tend to do
evil or stupid things making our and other people's lives full of unnecessary
suffering and stopping all from progress and happiness. It is some kind of a
vicious circle. See this:
I understand that it is easier not to
care, not to even know. We’d rather not know because sometimes the truth is
hard to bear. We’d rather feign
everything is ok, and we do it subconsciously. And in some part we are right,
because we often have many other problems, closer ones, which affect us directly
here and now. But we are not separate beings. We are not separate from each
other, we are not separate from political systems which govern our world, we
are not separate from nature, from our planet. Therefore, we should give a bit
of our concern also to these aspects. We should think sometimes where we live,
how we live, how we should and shouldn't to live, is our life really and
honestly good, and how to make it better. Because our civilization needs to
change for better. It needs to stop useless wars and suffering and needs to
create a system which gives much potential to all people to live happily.
It isn't a mere fantasy or speech of
frightened and crazy mind. It is our reality and in the past many great and
widely respected minds already thought about these issues, e.g. Albert Einstein
and Sigmund Freud.
These two were writing letters to each other about
ideas to stop wars and make an international organ to care about world peace
and development. If you want to know more about this, you can read a
synopsis, e.g. at: Link1, and
original letters at: Link2.
They were not the only ones. Besides,
there were other great personas like Mahatma Ghandi, Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama XIV
Tenzin Giatso, and others. There is also Jacque Fresco, who got an idea of The Venus Project which aims
to create a perfect futuristic society.
I also encourage you to watch in your free time The Zeitgeist Movement's movies. They show us the faults of our civilization and
suggestions how to change it for better. When I watched them, literally they
changed my mind.
It is moral
duty of each of us - habitants of this beautiful planet with marvelous
potential (which even philosophers haven't dreamed of yet, which is still
outside minds of many people) to care about it and its future, because it is
also our future.
I would like to ask you a few questions:
- Have you ever thought about such issues and made an effort to change something for better in those areas?
- Have you ever heard about the above mentioned projects?
- What do you think about the current situation of our civilization and its nearest development prognosis?
- Would you like to contribute to the idea of changing the world for better?
- Do you think common people have power to change something? Why? And if no, then how to change it?
Sources:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYKB8fwJY04
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SipVykiE6mY
- http://www.openculture.com/2015/09/albert-einstein-sigmund-freud-exchange-letters.html
- http://www.public.asu.edu/~jmlynch/273/documents/FreudEinstein.pdf.
- https://www.thevenusproject.com/
- http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
Pictures:
- https://stellaregg.com/the-venus-project-a-holistic-approach-resource-based-economy/
- https://qz.com/1034390/why-war-send-freud-and-einsteins-theories-on-the-psychology-of-war-anywhere-in-the-world/
