Intimate Internationalism

It is crying over megagallons of spilled milk to keep moaning and complaining about atrocities already done. What we need to do is study history with the strongest intention never to repeat it! So much timenergy is utilized berating and blaming, bemoaning a past that is fact, and irreversible.

As in all situations, a little common sense-- anything but common-- would go a long way! If blended with only a pinch of compassion, this recipe could help us solve many world-problems. For world-problems, as grandiose as that sounds, come down always to the problems of one person. Then, when he/she joins with other individuals, they try to solve community-problems, which later evolve into difficulties on a planetary scale.

Our major geopolitical challenges are really, then, psychospiritual. They consist of two parts: the eradication or minimization of greed, creating justice; and the cultivation of compassion, guaranteeing empathy.

As only one human being, with severely restricted and limited resources, the best solution for me personally is to devote this life to the dissemination and celebration of the message of Love-- empathy, compassion, goodness, justice, peace with self and neighbors, and kindness. This is a viable, practical solution for even world-problems. In the light of gigantic population and internationalism, even globalism, it is far too easy to forget that the "vast world" is just people--
people exactly like you and me. So, if we can straighten out things inside our heads, and then reflect those solutions in our families and communities, that will, in the end, be the real solution to gigantic and complex social and sociospiritual problems.