Reply #40: common cause [View All]

Great post Hannah, and thanks for this thread.

While it seems on the surface that we have two diametrically opposed warring camps on this thread, we actually share the same problem - we have common cause here and are in the same boat. Living in fear and denial of poverty and suffering and deprivation is driving us crazy. The price we pay for material well-being is spiritual sickness and insanity, and we are all suffering from this.

"We can't fix it in isolation." That is what we are trying to do.

"That's why, in disasters, people come together & so many people feel such a sense of camaraderie; they're working together to help each other."

All it takes to break through this stalemate is to recognize that we are already in a disaster. "Success" in modern society has come to mean insulating and isolating ourselves from that reality, so we can ignore and deny it. It has also severely constricted what we can and cannot do woith outr livs, since we must pacify and not offend this god we call "success." We then try to help people, and don't realize that we are forcing them to join us in denying reality. Were we to join *them* in accepting reality, we, too, could all be working together with that sense of camaraderie.