Showing posts with label mind based society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mind based society. Show all posts

Friday, August 21, 2009

History 2

The dualism between us and them has a long history, and it is not quite over yet. But the progress made by dissolving the dualism is much more important than the effects of fighting out the dualism in the old way. It is better for all when Hungary, Poland and other East European countries join NATO, rather than risk war with NATO.
Even in Afghanistan, where NATO actually is waging war, the difficulties of making peace as an effect of the war is discussed.
Between nations, the idea of peaceful cooperation is the normal attitude, but between individuals and local groups the old dualism remains. Young people gather around different football teams and fight the supporters of the other teams. It is almost instinctive.
If we have a mind based world view we naturally include all individuals in our world, and we also include a total self-awareness of our self in our world. We see the good in others and the bad in our self, and not only the bad in others and the good in our self. The differences are seen with tolerance and appreciation.

Monday, August 3, 2009

Full truth

Broadening the perspective and letting in more information is the way to solve problems, rather than try to work out a solution within a given framework.
Eventually there is no truth except the full truth.
The society is based on combination of truth and power, and the effects are sometimes strange with unlikely winners and losers. The ideal society is based only on truth.
One reason why the society is not already based on truth is that truth is difficult to see. There is a natural problem. This is traditionally increased by human secrecy, bad communication and will to deceive.
However, with the increasing interest in the workings of mind, the last obstacle to awareness is challenged.
Understanding the different functions of mind, including the extremely elusive but powerful long term effects, will clear the way to a just and free world.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

The new Marx 2

Post-industrial society is an old concept. But it is negatively stated. It tells about what we have left - the industrial society - but not about what we have arrived at. So, what have we arrived at? The answer is: the mind based society.
The industrial society was the last era when human beings had their main value as physical production entities. Now the main value is in mind. Mind is creator and consumer in one.
The classical problem is how to distribute wealth and work. Karl Marx answered it for the industrial society. Or rather, he started a struggle that went on for 150 years and sometimes violently.
The problem now is: What is wealth and what is your role, among the seven billion other human beings living now?
The answer is that wealth is not in money, but in the use of our resources. This "use of resources" means living in harmony, love and creativity, from the support of all others and of nature.