Enjoy this Week’s Post: Here is a bit of history for you. It was a meaningful attempt at peace after the terrible destruction and losses during “The Great War”. People have made numerous attempts at peace but self-interest sabotages them. The self-interest of people who call themselves leaders and those who follow them down the path of violence; those who have yet to transcend their habitual patterns of thinking and acting. So how do we tilt the balance? A good start is to reflect on this self-interest and our ethical obligation to resist the temptation to pursue it at the expense of others. If there is any positive to take away from our climate crisis it may be that it is becoming harder to deny that our actions do indeed affect others. But what do I know right? Well let me refer you to someone else who you may find more credible. For fun, guess who it is:
“In a real sense all life is
inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied
in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all
indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to
be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be…
This is the inter-related structure of reality.”