Practical Thoughts

Dear Reader, “The nature has enough resources for everybody’s needs, but not for everybody’s greed”.(Mahatma Gandhi) Yes, the modern world today - at least that part influenced by Western thought - certainly rests on an attitude of primarily "Me, me" and licence to go for whatever is attainable. I know - in my ignorance I've done it! But I came to rue my actions and I know, after several further decades, that there is a much better route to follow.  In the 1970s I came to see the folly of the materialistic life as it was developing and which got worse, particularly from the 1980s. There was enough knowledge available by the 1970s to reverse the materialistic trend, but the Western powers-that-be were not interested, using their ostensible drive against Communism as the basis. By the time Communism had collapsed (by 1990), materialism had taken solid root. Economies were starting to thrive - "Why change this trend?", people thought. The United Nations’ Decade of ...

Dear Reader, It now seems to be the case that when a national financial crisis occurs and prices escalate, the automatic response in many is ingrained to clamour for higher wages to restore parity. It's a human situation that is understandable, but it also perhaps reflects the fact that there are many (not all) that feel that 'they' should keep us at least in a none-worse position financially, but must do so regardless of other considerations. And yet this is in the face of the whole  world being in such a challenging state. We want parity while the world is burning or starving.  The whole situation is the outcome of a western policy of capitalism without responsibility or compassion towards the Earth and its resources, an approach that has existed for many years but has grown as virtually fully-blown materialism in the past 40 years. We have followed its dictates like sheep. It is a way, a system, but its administrators only recently admitted the existence of a world crisi...