The fundamental reason for our failure at saving life on earth

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The fundamental reason why we are not successful with stopping global warming (support alternative energy, change the car industry), ensuring food safety, saving the bees, render agriculture sustainable, stop tax evasion, etc. etc. is what no politician is allowed to talk about publicly but what is carried internally as the  corner stone that can not be mentioned  by name, and it is the need for the so-called level playing field. 

Argument being, if the others are not doing it, we will loose our competitive advantage and loose our significance with the economical backlash that comes with it.

So, we can save the world from itself with the technology that we have and will have but we do not because the others are not. And with this ball we bounce ourselves into oblivion.

The structure of a solution to ensure a level playing field already exists. It is the UN. All we have to do is to give it decisional power. First in the areas where the world is as a whole under short term threat of annihilation or great sufferings (global warming, military industry, etc), then progressively phase less threatening areas where worldwide collaboration is critical like commerce, tax, etc.

The 21st Century politic of entitlement

More:
http://paulpiff.wix.com/paulpiff#!publications/c240r
http://matrix.berkeley.edu/research/are-wealthy-more-narcissistic
http://media.wix.com/ugd/80ea24_69eafdc5d036419e93600d80c6d5be33.pdf
http://media.wix.com/ugd/80ea24_edd136e3b72b07c93775906aee3dfa35.pdf
http://media.wix.com/ugd/80ea24_f1f3156bf15b3d57922cd9f146ed5897.pdf
http://www.psychologytoday.com/files/attachments/4330/npitimeupdatespps.pdf
http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_piff_does_money_make_you_mean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuqGrz-Y_Lc
http://www.amazon.com/The-Spirit-Level-Equality-Societies/dp/1608193411
http://www.politico.com/story/2012/06/vicious-cycle-of-economic-inequality-077280
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B
https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/27/inequality-is-not-inevitable/?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business-jan-june13-makingsense_06-21/

The little book that...

 

 

(R)EVOLUTION

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 REVOLUTION

I would argue that one human characteristic is at the basis of most sufferings we inflict to each of us and to each other. This characteristic is our unaware obsession for  “Easy and quick gratification”.

It drives us to false entitlement, eating damaging food, feed our lust for glamour, our need to surround ourselves with carbon copies of ourself, our greed for money and power, our disregard of environmental sustainability, justify violence, and the use of pretension and lies. This in return, makes us unable to perceive lies and deceit coming from others (the fish is unaware of the nature of water), as we are ourselves a source of lies and deception.

This is unfortunately our recent actual worldly trend, and as a mass phenomenon, with our actual technical means, it is a recipe for more global suffering or crudely put, for the eradication of humanity as we know it.

Enabling evolution instead of revolution is an individual and collective work of patience and determination, it is a labor of love and of true strength (strength nowadays need to be defined because of the false appropriation of the word by pro-authoritarians who see violence as strength while it is a disguised weakness), and involves the continuous exploration of the meaning of our own responsibilities and intended legacy.

~The Courage to see~

Our need to see the good in man is boundless.  Gosh even the word evil has become esoteric. Yet when someone cuts a budget destined to protect the environment by 31%, eliminates health coverage for 22 millions and increase the war machine budget by 10%, all in one swerve, we ought to see.

I would argue that democratic forces have one shot at this: as the Canadian Harper era has shown, within a year, emphatic democracy is progressively and aggressively infiltrated, its functioning made inefficient and within 1-2 years it has become paralyzed.

Although we know through the history of mankind that that "humanity in us" never disappears, this time there may not be much to return to.