A Better Way

When it comes to economics, resource management, there are endless systemic possibilities. As economic systems are similar to eco-systems, balance is vital to their successful operation, imbalance cannot be long maintained. When we consider that we are one family and that the earth is our home and garden, we are bound by moral duty to administer the resources of our home and garden for the good and welfare of the whole family, anything else is theft.

One can imagine variously organised councils, mandated to manage the affairs of each community, region, or nation – an agreed collective – all of whom are answerable, at each level, to a recognised, fairly appointed, and properly constituted authority. All this would be pointless without a Grand Council of the Families of the Whole Earth, as our current models so abundantly, and tragically, evidence.

Eligibility for service should be dependent upon having first received adequate training for the role being undertaken, while successful service should be the passport toward advancing service in the higher councils; each member being nominated from within their various regional groups and elected by popular vote.

At present the ideologies that govern resource management are primitive, backward, ugly, violent, and selfish, reflective of the savagery from whence we have so recently emerged; but some day they will be forward looking, inspiring, creative, and service oriented. The social consciousness of that age will be permeated with the sense that this world has merely been loaned to us by our grandchildren, therefore will moral duty compel us to not diminish it while love compels us to enrich it.

The God of Abundance is more than comfortable with profit and prosperity, our problems lie not with abundance but with the harmful effects of yielding to selfish desire. Inequalities labour any system, giving rise to the wear and tear common to any inefficient system. When the selfish endeavour to dominate – a natural and instinctive urge – they put stress on the whole social ecology – political, economic, religious, military, education and health – and some one, some family, somebody’s son or mother, brother or sister, somebody is going to be ACTUALLY hurt, will be aggrieved through injustice – an inevitability of inequalities.

Western apathy toward the tragic injustices suffered by our brothers and sisters, our family, in the global south and east I term ‘Spiritual Leprosy’ – insensitivity toward how our actions and lifestyle choices works injustice and harms our family. Like the sufferers of leprosy, we do not ‘feel’ that what we are doing is damaging us but even though we don’t feel it, the damage is nevertheless real and, if not treated is fatal. It is for this reason that a global spiritual awakening is the only solution to the ills that currently beset our world.