Ten doors and
21 points to 21st Century global citizenship
First-Facts:-
1. International community cannot
afford to remain a mute spectator anymore though there are limits and
diplomatic hurdles to levels of interference in internal affairs of any nation
but involving for humanitarian causes or to be more precise
to literally save humanity from self inflicted destruction.
My humble suggestions. mostly idealistic, some of which may be
unpleasant to certain vested interest groups but sincerely meant to deliver a
happy and humane humanity, healthy and prosperous society and a livable planet
for posterity.
First and foremost we must lay the foundations of peaceful
co-existence and this cannot be brought about by pronouncing any
apolitical and nonreligious suggestions; nor spinning theories which do not
ensure material comforts and which do not include technology; nor through
continuing the business of poverty and victim hood peddling.
Life and nature work on interplay through many issues but we
convert issues into multiple problems and further complicate everything trying
to divert from addressing the core of the problems by extrapolating everything
with too much of too many political ideologies and trying to live a life through ancient scriptural
edicts which may not have answers and solutions for our newly generated problems and
pleasures.
2. Schooling for
mass literacy, anti-biotic medicines for certain diseases and democracy for
socio-political governance are inevitable and important factors of modern life for
want of better alternatives.
Left has not provided practical solutions nor can all solutions be
left to be taken care of by the Right.
3. Humanity is
not a pendulum to be made to swing perennially between the extremes of Left or
Right, Capitalism or Communism, ethnocentric pride or xenophobic deride,
megalomaniac greed or melancholic breed, nor can it be allowed to be caught
in the web of extreme religious 'isms' and ideologies.
Real values of life must value life in its totality devoid of any extraneous
identity.
Is that possible?
Is that possible?
While all of us
feel the need for unity what unity needs is feeling for all by
all.
4. We need to recognize
and respect
variety in all forms and spheres of human activities but we can
avoid over emphasis, outward expression or exhibition of any identity be it
religious, regional, racial, ideological and so on and worse still imposition
of it all on unwilling human beings.
Synergy is the need of the
hour in an interconnected life and world. Most vital, important and inevitable fact of
life, any life and all lives is that in all aspects life is inter-related,
inter- connected and inter-dependent.
5. So, resorting
to any over generalizing, over simplifying, homogenizing mode on the
presumption that humanity can be controlled uniformly through any single model
can never works out because there doesn't exist a single perfect, problem free or fool proof system. We all need to
humbly accept that nothing in the world is a panacea.
Second-Agenda for change in perspective:-
6. However, we can develop
an agenda within these systems, in political domain it is democracy and all its
institutions, with a realization, though it may sound too idealistic, that we
are one among the many species sharing the space for sometime on this
planet-wrongly called as earth when 70% of it is water.
Third-Advantage as a species-a simple realization:-
7. We are
endowed, compared to many other species, with many additional faculties, senses
along with documented records of centuries gone by for our reference and very
advanced technologies to make life a more comfortable, happy and peaceful
journey of harmony.
Fourth- Incubation centers of change to be targeted:-
8. No religious
edict, identity or practice must be imposed on any individual unless he/she
decides to follow them voluntarily.
9. Humane
attitude of caring, sharing, tolerating variety along with prioritizing the
necessity of following rules that enable the practice of such lofty ideals must
be taught scrupulously in all countries in all languages primarily at family
level; schools and societies must reward children who practice such attitudes.
These suggestions may sound naïve but necessitated by problems that emanate from individuals and extend beyond any
definable borders. So, policing them becomes tough but may be
preventable if stopped even at the centers where they get fertilized.
10. Basic humane
values and means of harmonious cohabitation must be nurtured at family level
for which some international organisations can symbolically distribute batches to all girls and women
across the world because no women would like her child/children, husband or
father to kill another or get killed.
Fifth-Issues to be addressed:-
11. Violence, especially physical violence
manifested in any form without any provocation must be accorded a very severe
punishment after subjecting the perpetrator to school for reforming.
Sixth- Implementation of severe measures:-
12. Any
institution be it political or religious which is found to harbor ideas or
activities of instigating or inflicting violence against any other must be isolated
and deprived of all facilities by every state and any state that is found to
fail to implement such measures must be imposed with sanctions.
Seventh-Arbitrators or umpires or referees to
implement the measures:-
13. A team of
retired lawyers, socially respected persons locally, diplomats, and religious
leaders- all must be women [ women from local communities] from the
areas where disputes arise along with similar experts from another continent to
adjudicate as and when such crisis emerge rather than having a statutory body
in place before, because if there is a static statutory body in existence, then,
the chances of influencing the verdict of such bodies becomes easier as we are
used to subverting the systems through
bribes, corruption and manipulations which can be greatly minimized as it will be difficult to carry manipulations over night. Despite all these, still, corruption, manipulation, misuse and all
other negative things will emerge in the new proposed systems too, but they can
be less and easily monitored.
Eighth-Evolve a sort of wisdom acceptable to all which
could be broadly stated as follows:-
14. There could be
multiple versions of wisdom in various
forms imparted through myriad scriptures and religious practices.
But real universal wisdom in my humble opinion may be like this
whether sanctioned or sanctified by either social mores or religious morality.
Wisdom is the work shop where works of evolutionary trends and
experiences of everyone in it emerge to express wisely the essence of
everything to engage with and enlighten everyone;
Ninth-The
wisdom we need could be:-
15. We need a
wisdom which prioritizes living in the present context and along with
practicing certain time tested values which have relevance in present context
but with global perspective to bequeath a livable planet, a lovable society
with lovely infrastructures and improved living conditions;
16. we need a
wisdom that evaluates everything and everyone with contextual relevance and based on
the inherent attributes or merits of what or who is being evaluated without
extrapolating any presumptions, opinions, judgments, perceptions,
expectations, ideologies, doctrines, identity based ideology and so on;
17. We need a
wisdom which is willing to make minor adjustments, small compromises,
spontaneous cooperation to create compatible and conducive atmosphere with
humility devoid of any egocentric pride;
18. We need wisdom with the
realization and a perspective that must be aware that life is a constant process of learning of the
multiple dimensions of many things and the various dynamics of those dimensions
involving the constant interaction and interrelationship with everyone and
everything.
19. We need a
wisdom that is willing to accommodate multiple methods or means of life with
some overall tolerant attitude embedded on humanitarian concerns towards all
human life and environmental
or natural concern towards all other species.
20. We need a
wisdom that gets its clarity of understanding through a churning process that
takes into consideration several aspects from the practical to the
philosophical and extending even to all the fantasies of the mind.
Tenth- Stop encouraging willful destroyers of peace
and prosperity:-
21. No country
must allow or enable looters of wealth from other nations to be hoarded
anywhere as in the case of some nations and institutions.
If all the above are followed then we stop:-
converting every comment into a controversy ;
every statement into some sensitive issue;
every event into a scandal;
every observation as having an hidden agenda;
stop dealing with others with ulterior motives, lurking suspicions, simmering discontent;
stop conducting everything ritualistically without real involvement;
stop treating religious activities with obsessive competition as if the number of adherents and places of worship are meant for Guinness book of world records;
stop allowing politics and politicization to dominate every discourse from beliefs to creating bofinology;
stop misusing natural resources;
stop looking at others with bias when in fact, there are no others as we are all inter-related and interconnected in several ways.
converting every comment into a controversy ;
every statement into some sensitive issue;
every event into a scandal;
every observation as having an hidden agenda;
stop dealing with others with ulterior motives, lurking suspicions, simmering discontent;
stop conducting everything ritualistically without real involvement;
stop treating religious activities with obsessive competition as if the number of adherents and places of worship are meant for Guinness book of world records;
stop allowing politics and politicization to dominate every discourse from beliefs to creating bofinology;
stop misusing natural resources;
stop looking at others with bias when in fact, there are no others as we are all inter-related and interconnected in several ways.
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