we have a number of issues we as human beings, as
citizens of certain countries… America for me,
and as members of certain ism’s and ideologies…
UR the radical rightwing…
but finding solutions to these issues, be it
income inequality, global warming, overpopulation,
the reduction in resources such as water and oil, which
will bring out the next wars… all of these problems
we face, seem insurmountable because we
attempt to solve these problems with old
solutions, not new solutions…
the radical right, ever being out of the times, claims
that the old solutions of god, family, country will solve
our problems… of course not seeing that many of our
current problem exist because of those old solutions…
it is our fealty to faded old religions that is keeping us from
finding new solutions to new problems…there is no problem
that requires us to believe that god or religion is the answer…
and how does fealty to one’s country allow us to solve the vexing
problem of income inequality or overpopulation?
we cannot answer new problems with old answers…
as it best put, surprisingly enough, in the bible…
“And no man putteth new wine into old bottles;
else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled,
and the bottles shall parish. but new wine must be put into
new bottles; and both are preserved. No man also having drunk
old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better”
We must engage with new wine into new bottles or we
spill both…so what new solutions can we find for our
“Modern” problems?
that old solutions like religion cannot answer our new wine
questions, and that old solutions like politics as usual,
will not answer the question of new bottles…
instead of the old wine of tribalism, which hasn’t solved
a single problem in the new age, and in fact has created
dozens of problems we must seek solutions for… we cannot
engage in the old answers of tribalism, or engage in the old
answers of god, faith, country for questions that exists outside
of such considerations… for example, this question
the reduction of resources, how does the answer of god, faith
or country solve the problem of draughts and lack of drinkable water
in many diverse locations such as the American west, South Africa,
Zimbabwe, Somalia, Morrocco, China, Pakistan… how does
a faith in god or a belief in religion, solve this problem of
many diverse countries suffering from drought?
or how do we finally, end the threat of war? is it by religion?
I don’t see it because so many countries have different and
diverse religions… try to find a similarity in religion
in such countries as China, Russia, England and the U.S.
we cannot find a similarity in either ism’s or religions,
or language or politically if we all hold to different
faiths, languages, political, economic and philosophical
beliefs…
to find common ground requires some common beliefs…
where do we find such commonalities within such diverse
states as China, Russia, France, Egypt and the U.S?
How does a resort to the past solve this question of
finding commonality between such diverse countries?
we can only solve our “Modern” problems with a recourse to
new found commonality with it various parties… in other words,
perhaps the best way, and maybe the only way to unite the world into
a common cause is to have an Alien invasion of Earth…
for if we do not unite and become one in the fight against
an Alien force determine to take over earth and eliminate
people, we will all die… simple as that and that maybe,
the only way I can see that we can become one with each other…
a force threating all of us… and our own individual survival
can only occur if we combine our forces and defeat the alien
forces together… we fight together or die alone…
but perhaps something similar to this can happen if
we take a look at the larger picture of existence…
individually, as countries, we cannot survive on our own…
we cannot survive alone as individual human beings…
it doesn’t take a village to educate our young, it takes
a village to survive as human beings…for I cannot survive
alone… I must have others, millions of others to survive
individually… we are united we just can’t see that yet…
for we seek our differences instead of seeking our
commonalities… we have far more in common then
we do have in differences… you and I are more alike,
then we are different…
and the tribalism, faith, god, country, and other ism’s prevent
us from seeing our similarities/commonalities… instead
we see our differences because of failed ism’s, ideologies,
faiths, religions, and beliefs in country…
the story of the human race is the story of us going from
the small to the large… we once held to tribes and small families
as being the highest responsibility of being human, (for in the beginning
human beings were simple tribesman and a small collection of
families to becoming large states in which we are united in
such beliefs as country and god and in the future, to survive,
we must include everyone into our systems… in other words,
we have grown from small tribes to small cities, to small nations
to large nations into empires and with the rise of the United Nations,
we are beginning to see the path into the future as being the
path where we see people, all people as kinsman, part of the tribe
of human beings…all people must see each other as part of the tribe
or we will no survive as human beings…
and thus we expand our vision from the one, to the few to the many
to all… and we can now see how the old wine of the past can no
longer be sufficient enough to see us through this “modern” times…
we must have the “new wine in new bottles” to make the next growth
of human existence possible…
that means we drop the old wine of god, family, faith, country
and accept the new wine of I am a “brother to all of mankind”
and I cannot succeed without all of mankind helping me
and that same mankind cannot succeed without my help…
we work together or we die alone…
Kropotkin