Message-ID: <Pine.A41.3.95.970206092115.34602D-100000@paris.NMSU.Edu> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 09:30:39 -0700 From: JC WANDEMBERG <mailto:juwandem@NMSU.EDU> Subject: Re: THEORY: Mankind at stake To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, steve worth wrote: >
> But in reality, we always, always have a choice...
ABSLUTELY!
> I too share the optimism that mankind will survive, but the
> question is how.
snip> > In 1985 I read these words from the Universal House of Justice:
>
> Whether peace is to be reached only after unimaginable horrors
> precipitated by humanity's stubborn clinging to old patters of
> behaviour, or is to be embraces now by an act of consultative
> will, is the choice before all who inhabit the earth.
>
> Horace Holly, noted commentator in the 1940's and 1950's said
>
> In every greaat crisis of human affairs, the fundamental point
> at issue turns upon the differences in our conception of the
> nature of man. However the issue is clothed in political,
> economic or social terms -- however unconscious the mass of
> people may seem to be that it is man himself at stake -- no
> true solution is arrived at until the spiritual problem has
> been cleared...The great issues before the world today... all
> serve to reveal the chasms in our spiritual philosophy. The
> question: what is man? confronts us at every turn... the age
> is one of vital crisis for the very reason that this question
> cannot be postponed nor evaded any more.
>
>
> The result is inevitable... but the pathway and the price are
> negotiable. It is not an issue of one system versus another;
> all have merit and all have flaws. It _is_ an issue of exploring
> our choices based on a firm understanding and acceptance of our
> singleness of kind.
Amen Steve !
I think we must start by changing all previous assumptions about man (particularly the economic ones, e.g., common interest is best serve by the individual persuit of self-interest, perfect competition & information, etc.) for this one:
Humans CAN be purposeful and idea-seeking in the RIGHT environment.
I great concern I have is that by focusing on future generations we fail to fix the problems of the current generation.
Let's built the right environment NOW and by default we would take care of future generations.
Best regards,
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