The Competitive Exclusion Principle predicts a dark outcome for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but that future can be averted if the world adopts a view of human civilization as a "superorganism."
Clearly, the tenets of Humanism would be ideal for everyone to follow. Humanism seeks the flourishing and happiness of all humanity and devoid of religious dogma.
Loved this article. I actually explored a similar idea through the lens of recognising our common humanity in contrast to the rising trend on dehumanization playing out on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I think the dehumanization aspect compliments the grand systems perspective you have presented by zooming in to a particular psychological construct that fuels separation of social organisms and bypasses evolutionary empathy circuits that allows for people of moral character to unwittingly sustain support for violence. You can read it here:
Love "unifying worldview" "global brain" "global ethos" "coherent superorganism." But the problem isn't that Israelis and Palestinians have different worldviews -- They share the same worldview of tribalism, religion, maintaining difference with relatively closed, protective boundaries to maintain tried-and-true traditions. But within both camps there are people without that worldview at all. Older people who remember when they all lived happily in the same towns. People interconnected on the web to a wider world. People who see more similarity than difference among people. The transcendent worldview that you call for is emerging everywhere. Paul Hawken wrote about it in his 2008 book, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World. Grounded in the earth, literally, with no manifesto, no leader, people worldwide are growing their own systems, but are deeply interconnected by shared knowledge. Now we'll see which worldview will prevail -- Will we fall into the amplifying feedback loops of closure and distrust, or will we stop it and balance it with love and reason?
I absolutely agree with you, except I think to properly counter the dehumanizing effect of religion and capitalism, we need more than a new ethos. We need a new mythos.
I would say that historically there wasn’t anything called « Judeo-Christian, » as much as « Judeo-Islamic. »
European Christians killed Jews in the tens, in the hundreds, and in the thousands all over the continent for centuries before the Holocaust. Jews historically were much more integrated in Islamic lands (and actually before 1948 there used to be something called Palestinian-Yiddish, and for centuries many important works were written in Judeo-Arabic).
I am sorry I paid for half a year. Glad that I reduced it to one month with easy options. Sometimes things that seem too good to be true are. And I kick myself for my foolishness despite the attractive art. Looking for a magical fix in "consciousness" is a dilatants privilege. The truth elided is technological innovations without genuine social miracles will not save us. * (P2PF) Intellectual masturbation no matter how erudite is still masturbation and changes nothing for our brother and sister creatures.
Clearly, the tenets of Humanism would be ideal for everyone to follow. Humanism seeks the flourishing and happiness of all humanity and devoid of religious dogma.
🔸Religion: 'Pudding is the only way' 'Pasta is the only way' 'Salad is the only way'
🔸Spiritual: 'It's all food'
Mystics are the root and trunk of the same tree, the branches of which are different religions.
From youtube film "With One Voice"
https://youtu.be/r3o2kltX7RI
Loved this article. I actually explored a similar idea through the lens of recognising our common humanity in contrast to the rising trend on dehumanization playing out on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I think the dehumanization aspect compliments the grand systems perspective you have presented by zooming in to a particular psychological construct that fuels separation of social organisms and bypasses evolutionary empathy circuits that allows for people of moral character to unwittingly sustain support for violence. You can read it here:
https://open.substack.com/pub/unityunderground/p/the-crisis-of-dehumanization
Love "unifying worldview" "global brain" "global ethos" "coherent superorganism." But the problem isn't that Israelis and Palestinians have different worldviews -- They share the same worldview of tribalism, religion, maintaining difference with relatively closed, protective boundaries to maintain tried-and-true traditions. But within both camps there are people without that worldview at all. Older people who remember when they all lived happily in the same towns. People interconnected on the web to a wider world. People who see more similarity than difference among people. The transcendent worldview that you call for is emerging everywhere. Paul Hawken wrote about it in his 2008 book, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World. Grounded in the earth, literally, with no manifesto, no leader, people worldwide are growing their own systems, but are deeply interconnected by shared knowledge. Now we'll see which worldview will prevail -- Will we fall into the amplifying feedback loops of closure and distrust, or will we stop it and balance it with love and reason?
I absolutely agree with you, except I think to properly counter the dehumanizing effect of religion and capitalism, we need more than a new ethos. We need a new mythos.
If life is a game, this region would be for those wanting to play in the highest difficulty. There are so many factors.
I would say that historically there wasn’t anything called « Judeo-Christian, » as much as « Judeo-Islamic. »
European Christians killed Jews in the tens, in the hundreds, and in the thousands all over the continent for centuries before the Holocaust. Jews historically were much more integrated in Islamic lands (and actually before 1948 there used to be something called Palestinian-Yiddish, and for centuries many important works were written in Judeo-Arabic).
I am sorry I paid for half a year. Glad that I reduced it to one month with easy options. Sometimes things that seem too good to be true are. And I kick myself for my foolishness despite the attractive art. Looking for a magical fix in "consciousness" is a dilatants privilege. The truth elided is technological innovations without genuine social miracles will not save us. * (P2PF) Intellectual masturbation no matter how erudite is still masturbation and changes nothing for our brother and sister creatures.
"MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL" and How to Prevent It
❤️ Discredit totalitarian propaganda everywhere
🤣 Mock worship of dictators
❤️ Promote moral organizations
❤️ Actions by everyone creates freedom
https://youtu.be/09maaUaRT4M