Starting with the premise that it is at least possible to have vastly more peace and plentitude on earth than we have today? The question becomes: ‘how we might realize this?’ Churchill would remind us that “Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time”
Humanity can live in a vastly more peaceful and bountiful way, by simply adopting the wisdom that almost all of us already agree with – the Golden Rule; treat others as you wish to be treated. None of us want to be involuntarily aggressed against, yet we
Humanity has available to it an upgrade; a paradigm shift towards bountiful peace, simply by recognizing the immense power of an idea you likely already agree with. An idea that is hiding in plain sight, that reconciles even the most polarized of groups accept as Live and Let Live. It’s the golden rule of treating others as you wish to be treated!
It’s in the name
Moving from ‘polarized other’ to ‘sister and brother’
Before I go on, let me say that we’re not suggesting Live and Let Live is some utopia. We expect some people to continue aggressing, as they do today, particularly as life is on ‘hard-mode’ right now, and the shift to ‘easy-mode’ will not be without birthing pains.
It also sounds obvious, and to those of you who are thinking… “well I already don’t aggress against people… are you really suggesting anything new here”
It’s radical, only in the sense that that word stems from the Latin ‘radic’, meaning ‘root’ – Live and Let Live gets to the root of the problem, which is that all countries, democracies and autocracies alike, allow institutionalized aggression. The ‘Social Contract’ was not voluntary entered into… we were born into a coercive system, with no break clause. But Live and Let is not drastic, in the sense that it doesnt require much new – the l
C.S Lewis says
“Virtue is not in obedience, but in choice.”
Let’s imagine someone who thinks prostitution is immoral, for example.
