Vivian: "You work on commission, right? When you wouldn't help me yesterday, you made a BIG mistake. A BIG mistake. Have a nice day!" Snooty saleswoman looking at Vivian wearing and carrying bags containing thousands of dollars' worth of name-brand designer clothing: ---speechless---
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆? Humanity’s next stage is to reach an integral connection with attitudes of love and care replacing our inborn egoistic relations. We have been coming closer to such a state over thousands of years. Humanity nonetheless is being fried on a skillet, flipping over from good states to bad ones and vice versa. During this process, humanity checks and collects various impressions with which it gradually becomes wiser. We have developed philosophies, sciences and educational systems beyond being mere savages where we lived solely through the force of the fist. Now we need to undergo a much more intricate stage of development: to connect out of a mutual connection and understanding of our interdependence. Most people understand the general family structure, where each family member holds certain roles and responsibilities for the family’s well-being. The mutual connection we need in humanity today is an extension of such relations we know in our respective families to all people of the world.
𝗗𝗼 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗕𝗲 𝗮 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲, 𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗔𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗕𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿? On nature’s behalf, humanity is a single integral system. Our ego, which makes us each wish for self-benefit at the expense of others, divides us into different parts and groups. However, our evolution is driving us to a point where we will have to rise above our ego in order to realize our connection as a single integral system out of our own accord. If we realized our human relations positively, as a single integral system, then we would see positive rippling effects throughout nature, and we would then find how nature-on its still, vegetative and animate levels-relates positively to us. Why? It is because “human,” also called “speaking,” is nature’s uppermost level. In our present reality, we see that countries divide into more and less wealthy and powerful. As we head into the future, a certain kind of system will have to balance our relations. I think that education will become the largest and most powerful system of all, i.e., an education system that guides the creation of a single integral system with harmonious and peaceful relations out of humanity. We will have to reach a state where we realize our connection worldwide as a single global-integral connection. Such a system would uphold values of mutual support and consideration. There would then be no one who gains solely for self-benefit alone at the expense of others. Competition for who can receive the most would cease and become replaced by a competition of how to give each other more and more. We will need to develop completely different relations to our current egoistic ones. The main point that we will need to internalize is that the whole world is a single family. If we will not wish to care for this family, of which we are all its members, then at the end of the day, we will simply bury ourselves.
This beautiful haunting song was written by 2 brothers, Robert B. Sherman (lyrics) and Richard M. Sherman (music) who were the sons of Russian - Jewish immigrants. ❤
