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This
is the moment of truth for humankind. Critical choices must
now be made in order to protect the continued existence of human
society and the earth itself. This
letter is a call to righten the collective moral disposition
of humanity, and to establish a global cooperative order on
that basis. In this message to all, I call upon the leaders and educators of humankind to actively embrace, and to universally declare and promote, and to actively require the universal real fulfillment of the simplest law and measure of humankind, which I have stated in the form: "Cooperation + Tolerance = Peace". The acceptance
of this law as a universal discipline is the basis for (progressively)
resolving the current plight of humankind. Since
the mid-twentieth century, the previous restrictions on the
destructive potential of war have ceased to be the case. The
ability to manufacture or obtain technologically sophisticated
weaponry (whether nuclear, chemical, or biological) is no longer
limited to the few, to the governments of the wealthiest and
most powerful nations. Indeed, such weapons can potentially
be obtained even by small groups of people determined to further
their own particular agendas, at whatever cost. And the destructive
potential of existing weaponry is now sufficient to cause unimaginable
devastation. Thus, humanity is faced with two new and dangerous
realities: The number of parties with relatively easy access
to extreme weapons of war is proliferating rapidly, and the
destructive power of those weapons is virtually unlimited.
In
the past, it was only the "superpowers" that had the
most destructive weapons. Thus, there was a time when it was
plausible for a superpower to presume that, by using conventional
weaponry, it could keep outbreaks of armed violence under control,
at least to a "satisfactory" degree. However, that
time has passed. When
sophisticated weapons of mass destruction are in the hands of
many, war (and even armed conflict altogether) ceases to be
something that can be "won". The governments of the
world are, in general, acting as if they do not understand or
accept this current reality. Since
the twentieth century, war itself has become a threat to
all
of humankind
— not merely to the parties directly involved in any particular
conflict. Therefore, just as slavery came to be recognized as
inhumane and (thus) unacceptable, so also war must be made obsolete
and no longer allowed. War is a past way of doing things that
no longer makes sense and can no longer be accepted as an appropriate
instrument of policy in the modern world. It
may seem naive and idealistic to say that war must no longer
be allowed, but this call for the eradication of war is, in
fact, a necessary response to two basic realities: (1) the vastly
increased availability of the weapons of mass destruction and
(2) the ego-based (or self-centered) nature of the un-Enlightened
human being. Given these realities, war must no longer be allowed
as an option — because the potential destruction is far too
great. Therefore,
in order to ensure its own survival, the human family must collectively
make the choice to refuse and repudiate all acts
of war.
When that
refusal and repudiation occurs, the governments
of the world (and even militarily oriented "interest groups"
of all kinds) can be collectively called upon to reject the
very possibility of waging war. And, in order to hasten
that collective rejection of war, people everywhere, and (particularly)
leaders in all fields of human endeavor, must join in speaking
this warning: War simply must be ended now — before it destroys
humanity and the earth itself. As
I have written (in "On Liberation from ego and
egoic Society, or, Cooperation + Tolerance = Peace" in
Eleutherios),
"Mankind, indoctrinated by materialistic philosophies,
ego-serving technologies, and gross politicial idealisms, is
possessed by the mechanical and emotionally negative efforts
of self-indulgence (and anxious release-seeking efforts of all
kinds), and chronically depressed by the frustration of the
Spiritual and Divine impulses that are the inherent characteristics
of the heart of every living being. The
ego-'I', whether individual or collective, is eventually reduced
to sorrow and despair, because of (and as an experiential result
of) the inability of life (in and of itself) to generate Happiness
and Joy and Immortality. And that self-contained depression
finally becomes anger, or loveless confrontation with the total
world and every form of presumed 'not-self' — including even
(and especially) the Transcendental, Inherently Spiritual, and
Self-Evidently Divine Self-Identity (or One and Only and Non-Separate
Self-Condition), Which is 'locked away', by means of conventional
(or merely exoteric) ideas of 'God Apart', and is (thereby)
made into an 'Other' by the egoic mind. And, when anger becomes
the mood of human societies, the quality of fire (or the primitive
and destructive intent of the frustrated ego) invades the plane
of humanity. That fire is expressed as all of the aggression
and competitiveness (and all of the resulting sufferings and
painful illusions) of mankind, including all of the ego-based
politics of confrontation. And that ego-fire is, finally, summarized
in the acts of war." The
active leaders of the cooperative global community (not only
in government, but in every area of human endeavor) will have
a uniquely great responsibility — for, even if individuals developing
within the collective order of humankind yet suffer the self-caused
disabilities of egoic living, the leaders who serve the cooperative
global
community must (without
fail) preserve and protect
the well-being of humankind (and of even all
of earthkind) as a whole, by really and consistently by abandoning
the self-centered, non-cooperative, and intolerant (or loveless)
manner of life and the policies and activities that flow from
it. Humankind should realize (and gratefully accept) that it (and even all of earthkind, and earth itself) has had enough of humanly-caused global destructiveness and violence. As a collective, humankind has become a dreadful mob of competitive egos — head-to-head, toe-to-toe, always threatening "showdown" and "winner-takes-all". It is a matter of the greatest present-time urgency that this prevailing global mood of political separatism, end-game competitiveness, and endlessly multiplied divisiveness be immediately and thoroughly and universally and permanently (or by means of the formal establishment of a global cooperative order of world populations) relinquished — such that the entire world population of humankind becomes universally intelligent with the heart-positive mind of cooperation and tolerance.
It is estimated that 170 million people were killed as a direct result of war during the twentieth century — vastly more than in any other century in the history of the world. This is a certain and heart-breaking sign that the human world is not being patterned and managed (or governed) correctly. In order to survive through the twenty-first century (and succeeding centuries), the peoples and nations of the collective human world must cease to support the political conventions of competitive conflict (or all of the merely nationalistic, or separatist, and agressive approaches to political problem-solving, based on racial, ethnic, traditional religious, economic, and otherwise idealized differences). Such great changes in human life and governance can be made — on the basis of cooperation and tolerance. Indeed, for the sake of all present and future humanity (and even all of earthkind), these changes must be made — in a non-violent manner, and via the gentle but persistent rejection of war (and even of inherent, or systematic, separativeness) as an appropriate instrument of world politics. The only way to solve the current world-situation is for everyone to "lose face" — instead of everyone demanding to "save face". All of humankind should, as a formalized collective, "lose face" together, by acknowledging that, unless human beings live in formally established and formally maintained cooperation and tolerance, they, inevitably, sink into grossly and universally destructive behavior. Only be everyone "losing face" together will the collective of human beings be able to regenerate the moral strength and authority that is necessary if human beings everywhere are to require cooperation and tolerance of each other — and only when there is first such a regeneration of universally equalized moral strength and authority will there be a universal agreement to create and maintain a truly cooperative and tolerant global human community. This
is how humanity can (and should, and must) exemplify its collective
and instrinsic heart-Realization of the Greatness of the Real. "Cooperation + Tolerance = Peace" is the great alternative to the egoic path of inevitable universal destruction — and, therefore, that moral law must become a universally accepted (and expected) moral and practical self-discipline. The collective human family should formally, fully, and finally refuse to allow war. Through this gesture (or fully enacted agreement), the gathering of the earth-wandering peoples of the world can feel their real strength and connectedness to one another — and their collective power to transform the "usual" (or "real") politics of egoity, and so actually create and maintain human peace in the natural world. Everyone should become positively disposed to the establishment of a real and trueglobal cooperative human community — because that global cooperative human community is not merely a "utopian ideal", but a practical and actually realizable necessity for the physical survival and the natural well-being of humankind and even all of earthkind.
For thousands of years, humanity has generated its history on the egoic (or separative) basis of opposition, confrontation, and competition. That history represents the developmental period of human infancy, childhood and adolescence — and that early-life history must now (and forever hereafter) come to an end, in the truly adult generations of humankind. To this end, people should not be "concerned" about how much has to be done in order to bring about this universal human change that aligns human existence to the intrinsic moral law of right life and peace. Rather, each one who agrees with this call of mine to humankind must — from now, and forever hereafter — simply, actually, and consistently do what is necessary to communicate and serve this call and to directly, practically, and positively address all the grave issues that humanity now faces. In this manner, people everywhere must come to the point of fully accepting that this universal embrace of the global order of human (and truly cooperative, and really mutually tolerant) adulthood must and will be done, and that there is no other acceptable option. The collective human world must relinquish the confrontational disposition (or the political and social idea of mutually exclusive "opposites") and enter into cooperation (and the idea of inherent unity, unqualified relatedness, or oneness). Otherwise, the human species is risking its own total self-destruction — as well as the destruction of even all of earthkind, and of earth itself. To bring the cooperative global human community into existence is not a matter of creating some kind of monolithic "world government". Rather, it is a matter of global cooperation among governments (or among representatives of various collectives) — a global cooperative politics that is no longer based on mutual opposition, unmanaged competition, or strategic efforts to dominate. The politics of confrontation and competition must be disciplined by the real (and really exercised) mutual dependency of human beings and human collectives on one another. If that great shift of principle in the exercises of human collective life is made to occur (by a universal, formal, collective re-agreement), then humankind (and even all of earthkind) will have the possibility of a rightly realizable future. On any other basis, even the possible survival (not to mention the possible "future" or "success") of humankind (and even all of earthkind, and of earth itself) is already compromised and without reason for optimism. The Peace Law of cooperation and tolerance must be embraced as the necessary politics of the future. Cooperation and tolerance are the necessary and exact "price" for peace — the "treaty cost" for the survival of humankind, earthkind, and earth itself. This is the necessary "new paradigm" for the human design of future effort. The traditional game of "winning the spoils" must come to an end. If the competitive mode of history is continued, no one is going to win — and everyone can (and, inevitably, will) lose. Humankind must come together (cooperatively, tolerantly, and as a whole) to solve the dreadful mass of problems that are already really and concretely affecting (and, otherwise, set to affect) human lives all over the world. And, fundamentally, there is only one effective "medicine", one underlying law (or principle), one practical moral basis upon which all of this can be positively and successfully addressed: Cooperation + Tolerance = Peace. No one can win the separative wars of the tribes of human mind — but, in a truly cooperative global human community, all will win, everywhere on earth.
Let
everyone act on his or her heart-desire to preserve this world
of earth and its kinds of life. Let
everyone act on his or her heart-yearning to serve the rightening
of the world-civilization of human beings. Do
not allow this precious gift of human existence to be reduced,
degraded, and annihilated. Do
not allow this precious world of earth and earthkind to be destroyed. Preserve
these gifts — by doing and demanding what is right life and
peace. I
offer you these words as a thorn of warning and a breath of
new life. I say all of this in certain love — for you, and for every one. |
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