Imagine

WE talk about reforming our schools, reforming our economic system, our society as a whole, because we realize that reform, change, is absolutely necessary. Its necessary because there are too many people living in poverty, too many people living in obscene levels of materialism, too many wars, too much violence.

And this is worldwide, for all time, yesterday, and today. And, seemingly, alarmingly, tomorrow, in all probability.


And at times it seems that we humans make progress, but that there is always much more progress desperately needing implementation. As writer Arthur C. Clarke said:


......"Imagine that you're an intelligent extraterrestrial, concerned only with verifiable truths. You discover a species that has divided itself into thousands - or millions - of tribal groups holding an incredible variety of beliefs about the origin of the universe and the way to behave in it.

Although many of them have ideas in common, even when there's a ninety-nine percent overlap, the remaining one percent's enough to set them killing and torturing each other, over trivial points of doctrine, utterly meaningless to outsiders.

How to account for such irrational behavior? Lucretius hit it on the nail when he said that religion was the by product of fear - a reaction to a mysterious and often hostile universe.

For much of human prehistory, it may have been a necessary evil,, - but why was it so much more evil than necessary - and why did it survive when it was no longer necessary?".......

With this mentality, this mindset, the mindset of humanity which engenders what Clarke was talking about, how is real social progress ever going to be possible?

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