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Unfortunately, the above requirements are no longer in vogue. But they are needed. Therefore, they must be developed again. In order to be able to change the course of a ship, the navigator must first be sure of the direction of his present course. Then he can make the necessary adjustments. Most people in recent times do not meet this criteria for sensibility.
Society has become terribly disgruntled, it even protests profusely, but it doesn't know why. People see a state of crisis unfolding, but they don't know what it represents. Much less do they understand what to do about it. Therefore they see no solutions and nothing gets resolved. If one listens carefully, however, one will note that most people's complaints are identical as if they were rehearsed from a common script. In many cases they are. The script is engineered by the global chain of 'information' outlets, mentioned earlier, that are owned by the policy enforcement agencies of the global imperial apparatus which may be collectively defined as the "Heart of Darkness." Thus, the script that everyone follows can hardly be expected to reflect reality or bring light into people's life. The script is a message of darkness. In its wake unfolded disease, pain, and death.
All this means, that the individual of society is really on his own when it comes to the task to create an accurate path to the recognition of truth. Recognizing what is truth is not an easy task. Nor is it easy to resist the professional mind-guiding campaigns of the larger policy making institutions. If people find it difficult to resist advertising campaigns for products they do not need or want, but acquire anyway, the difficulty must be many times greater for one to escape the more subliminal guidance of psychological professionals who hold the society ideologically by their strings.
Even if the controlling strings could be broken at once, and this can indeed be done, nothing would be fundamentally resolved, because the instilled effect tends linger. The impositions must be consciously reversed. Let us examine, therefore, the prospects of humanity by exploring its universal history, in the context of exploring what must be reversed.
History has been an interplay of constructive forces and destructive forces. The first must be promoted, the second be prevented. Some people choose to advance themselves by whatever way they can. The same can be said about empires, governments, and organizations. There are two patterns for doing this. One pattern is centered on building oneself up. The other pattern is centered on tearing everyone else down. By either method one's relative position becomes improved. The last option, of tearing another down, not surprisingly, happens to be the most popular one when the going gets tough. Corporations resort to it, to fight competition. Governments resort to it, to control populations. Empires resort to it, to exploit people. Even individuals resort to it. The growing rate of murder indicates, that many people believe deep in their heart that their life would be easier if certain people did not exist, or else they wouldn't murder them. It is certainly easier to blame others for one's misfortune. Hitler blamed the Jewish people; the Americans blamed the Communists; environmentalists blame humanity as a whole. Among the latter are those who think the world is too full. Every one of these groups went on rampages of murder, each in its own way, to rid their world of those whom they blamed as a detriment to their goals. Hitler murdered six million, the imperial forces hundreds of times as many. Fortunately for humanity, this option for advancing one's status by tearing another down is not available to the common people outside of governments and empires, or else we would all be dead.
Today's most advanced trend in getting ahead in the world of commerce, which is hailed as revolutionary, surprisingly, moves into the opposite direction. A motivator is beginning to take hold that causes some businesses to seeks their profit arising from processes that aid other people to advance the development of themselves. A faint beginning of this is found in the modern phase of network marketing where no one profits unless there is a progressive development going on throughout the whole field that benefits everyone. Licensing is another example where profit is gleamed from enhancing the productive and profitable environment for other parties. This trend reflects the principle that Christ Jesus has illustrated in the parable of the good Samaritan. Except, in common perception, the Samaritan is understood as a selfless compassionate idealist or humanitarian. This view may not accord with the original intend. The parable was presented in response to the question, "...and who is my neighbor?" The question itself was sparked by Jesus' statement of the law: Love thy neighbor as thyself.
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