
Killing is part of 'the ritual', nevertheless I notice that few animals kill for fun.
Such egoism was since the 'execution' of Julius Caesar typical in the Roman Empire.
Even some Roman historians wrote: until Julius Caesar Italians were noble,
afterwards greed and egoism grabbed control and took the name Senate.
| Zarah2nd; selfanswering question on internet: "if you have a Senate, who needs the Maffia?" |
What we see in the US, Europe, Russia, and the Muslim world is heritage of The Roman Empire:
rituals around 'greed', 'power' and 'politics'. The Islam variant of Mohammed (Mohammedan Islam) was inspired by Roman Catholicism.
Original Mekka Islam prohibits 'greed'.
So I don't agree with the power-thinking that "life always will be ruled by force and violence".
It was exactly this 'dual' ritual power-thinking that caused shapes of fascism and 'dirty wars'.
Ritually dividing the world in 'we' the good and 'they' the evil, the pagans, the communists, the terrorists' is typically Roman behavior.
Such rituals are only found in 2 or 3 religions. In 'natural' rituals life is taken as a unity,
balancing around 'better' and 'worse'. Often this ritual view is called as "The One".
For Roman Catholics, and especially for Protestants (Lutheran Catholics) and Mohammedans ('Mohammedan Catholics';most muslims), seeing Earth Environment as the home of ONE family of families is the challenge of the 21st century.
Individualism
tends to: Egoism + Being introvert (acting like supreme machine)
In world history already three times the overdone individualism of Greek spirit-body SPLIT thinking showed it's EXTREME danger (supremacy).
If you want to find all prejudices about collectivism together in the work of 1 writer, then read Ayn Rand.
If there was one person who made Western people afraid of collectivism,
then it was Mao Zedong. Mao made collectivism into totalitairianism of the masses.
A herd following the wishes of the sheep.| Family behavior = Behavior around Common Sense (People all are Similar), 'Rationalism = the engineering approach (A World full Differences) |
| Zarah2nd: UNbreak mind and body. Don't act like a spiritual mind is playing with a complex but dum gamebox. The mind is part of the gamebox. And many gameboxes together programmed in similar way make a super-gamebox or culture. |
| At present China as one of the last bloccades for 'rationalism' is at rapid speed 'rationalized'
(industrialism, capitalism, western democray, law and order, freedom of speech, individualism).
Already infected areas (Hong Kong) work like an 'rationalism chemical weapon' (sorry, however good meaning). It help to realize that 'rationalism' attacks like the drug 'meth' (amphetamine), only stealthier and without clear bodily damage. Users of 'rationalism' gradually arrive in ever more virtual worlds. Such worlds finally practice good-evil thinking, resulting like in the Western World in industrialism, capitalism, western democray, law and order, freedom of speech, individualism. 'Rationalism' junks hallucinate terrorism everywhere, like 'meth' addicts imagine alien people all around. Children/parents having father/son and/or mother/daughter addicted to 'meth' will recognize the hopeless situation. |
| The Western World industry by asking for ever more lower 'prices' forces rapidly developing China to produce below 'evolutional costs', that means it asks from the Chinese to use dirty production methods, exploit limited resources and ruin environment. |
| Zarah2ndA dubious fantasy: Everybody lives his/her own life, and should take care of him/her-self. Another dubious fantasy: clans like maffia, yakuza, army, nation are all important, and above individual responsibility. Families (cultures) are influential, decisive is their ethics. |
| The former British metropole Hong Kong faces a fine challenge. To design a local balanced democracy of 'rule of the wise' (= more relative wisdom, more vote, Buddhism) and rule of the average (1 man - 1 vote = western democracy). And to find useful jobs for those intelligent people who have abstract 'capitalist' jobs (earn a living by 'thinking). These people now have virtual jobs because of the capitalist myth 'inflation'. In common sense reality 'win' of one entity means equal 'loss' of other entity. If all stocks 'go up' than that is allways paid by 'inflation', or letting environment bleed. Hopeful consequence is that 'on the long run' winning cultures are allways the flexible 'living' ones, and produce the goods needed by happiness. Better set 'inflation' = 0%. The Age of Defense, with Cold Wars and LOCALLY millions of soldiers, many thousands of armoured vehicles, thousands of combat aircrafts, hundreds of submarines, major surface vessels and nuclear bombs, is OVER.. |

| The myth 'pure reason = thinking = understanding'.
Western people since Aristotle and especially since Immanuel Kant imagine 'human' animals to be no animals.
They imagine beings with immaterial divine 'spirits' and material 'sinful' bodies. 'Spirits' that need to follow 'reason', to be able to practice 'thinking' or 'understanding. They believe humans need to 'think' to survive. Most natives though know that if you meet a tiger and start 'analizing', you won't survive. Values are created by acting, not by 'reason'. It's not 'reason without emotion' that produces happiness, but the warmth of living in families. |
The Chinese Government is a mix of Chinese communism and Chinese capitalism, and doesn't SEEM to behave Buddhist.
Chinese Government is too communist and too capitalist, resulting in lack of common sense leaders, massive corruption, and overdone egoism.| In times of the Vietnam war Birma was a very successful Asian Tiger country, very pure Buddhism. Then the armytop was infiltrated by the terrorist organisation CIA This released the egoist brain addiction 'rational behavior' in an influential subculture of a totally common sense culture. That's like introducing poisonous snakes in a corner of paradise. Wealthy Birma transformed in very poor Miyanmar. In the same way the Couphing Zombies with Rifles on Horse of the King of Spain destroyed an in many ways superior Inca empire with locally unknown simple viruses. The armytop in Miyanmar is not 'evil', but behaves like a 'law and order' sect totally addicted to 'meth' (amphetamines) Something similar must have happened in North Korea. Resulting in agressive behavior simular to that of the US, and in paranoid behavior also like seen in the US. Protestantism (a 'fundamental' variant of egoist Roman Christianity) settled through US in Korea, and through UK in China. What brings Korean protestant aid-workers in Afghanistan. Protestantism is as 'alien' to 'eastern' cultures, as is the Mohammedan version of Islam to American soldiers. |
Looking from a space-lab to earth starts resembling looking at a very slow slow-motion movie of a blue balloon being eaten by armies of killer ants.
Killer ants in reality don't destroy. These ferocious ant armies make room for new life.
The disabled scientist Stephen Hawkins stimulates by being an example of what partially disabled people might accomplish.
The Simpsons can't make any sense of his wizardlike 'rational' talking.| To combine the evolutional ethics common sense with technological 'rationality'.
China is already infected by murderous 'rationality' (Hong Kong, Beijing, Sjanghai, the brute 'economic' forces behind the Olympic Games) ), but still largely common sense.
Asia can save The West. The Western World can offer its its amazing skill (technology).
To make an open 21th century ethics that is ready for entering space. Common Sense Stability: ALL of earth is Collective Good, and Community Concern. Melodies: Joanna give me Hope, Lambada, Where is the Love and The Sound of Freedom |

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Paradigm Shift Zarah2nd Return to Common Sense |