In the last post of my last blog (“Liberty … Too !!”),
I asked: "Would we fear the government whether we did not fear each other
?" I should have added: "...would we not fear AND DESPISE each other
!" And I mean: despise the other not because of what he does but because
of who he is ... in our mind.
In the first place, do you know who you are, basically
? Where were you before being in the womb of your mother, where will you be
after your death ? Is there a 'you' before and after life ? Every human being
in life in this regard is equal to the other, fundamentally. What distinguishes
me to the other is not who I am but what I do. There is not the smallest reason
to say the contrary.
Now, any living individual is bound by the time and
place where he is born, the kind of society and family where he grows up and lives.
But, whether the values of a man do differ considerably according to epochs and
localities, they remain always the same considering the esteem he gives to
others. We are as much different as possible from one another but we still are
the same when it comes to respect. Moral values unite people !
In many cases, the society we live in either
encourages or blames individual respect toward the other. During the seventeen's
century, a Scottish Highlander chief like Vich Ian Vohr, in Walter Scott's
'Waverley' did consider hospitality as the highest virtue of his attributes and
at the opposite, a middle class person of the French Riviera today lives behind
high fences that will never open to anybody in the world if he doesn't know the
people knocking at his door. Evil principles divide.
There
are two powers, two rules, two influences in the universe, the physical one as
well as the spiritual. One that tends to divide and its opposite that unite,
one that takes things further away from one another, that moves forth, rips apart, when the other brings things closer. These are in physics the two opposite
influences: the centripetal and the centrifugal forces. Here should we come to
the notion of ‘progress’.
Progress
ought to be the way to equalize the differences between people but,
unfortunately, progress is tied to profit and power. As such, progress involves
more domination, more inequality, more distress, more suffering. Progress
divides and kills instead of saving and unite mankind. Advocates of progress
are not shy about their goals. They say loud that their aim is to run kings.
They devise the best weaponry under the bright sun, they enslave overtly, they
advocate depopulation blatantly, they destroy both nature and their fellow men
quietly under the eyes of all of us. If progress has united anything ever, it
is mankind into slavery through pride and selfishness.
Two
hundred years ago, people did not travel. They were born and they died within a
perimeter of a few miles, and they did not feel the urge to cover long distances
as a pleasure, as a hobby. Today, one can see in every ‘highlife’ place, from
California to Bahrain, from Cannes to Hong Kong people as young as sixteen or
as old as eighty driving supercars worth hundred thousand $ just to get around
the corner to buy a pack of cigarettes, a bottle of Coca Cola, cars that are
designed to drive oneself four times around the world at more than hundred mph.
Then,
people knew each other, talked to each other, had a life together, for good or
for bad. Now, everyone ignores his neighbor but befriends strangers at the end
of the world through virtual means or in a flight of a few hours. Mankind has
ceased to be homogenous, in the neighborhoods, in the countries, in the
families.
The run for power has never been so great, so desperate, so life
threatening. Everyone on earth wants more, those who have as well as those who
have not with the overwhelming consequence: total control of people. If we do
not reach the conclusion and say “no”, now better than sooner, the ones who hold
the strings will finally reach their diabolic aim to prove the ugliest
predictions true with no return ticket. See for example :
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