21.08.08 - Thought of the day

I would be extremely curious to know where the world as a global culture would be if true reconciliation existed amongst all human persons. The words creed, culture, ethnicity, beliefs, national identity, colour, race and religion would still exist, but I would imagine they would bare and carry quite different meanings to what they do now. Their definitions would not be tainted as they are now, they meaning would not carry burden, verbalizing these expressions would bring about peace and a celebration of simple diversity with an intertwining of oneness. The words would not spark up resentment, discrimination, prejudice or pain. The term scope of justice would not exist in its entirety. Because all human persons would be included in humanity, we would actually live up to our name, “the human race”, “humanity”, these words stem from the word “humane” we would perhaps finally live up to that as people.
The joy of understanding others, no matter how different they appear, no matter how different they act, the simple act of being gracious in accepting another’s way of living, believing. The eradication of fear amongst all beings, too not be sacred that another will take “my land”, my land wouldn’t really exist as such. It would be openness to all, sharing, understanding and being generous of life and supporting fellow human beings. How beautiful this sounds on paper, to live truly free of the worry of fear, “yuk” words such as invasion, terrorism, threat would mean nothing and would seldom be used. But on paper anything is possible, in the mind anything is possible, but in the mind is where it all begins…
For this to physically manifest, much effort would be needed and reconciliation in its truest from would be required, as Susan Oppotow says; Reconciliation is not simply saying sorry for past wrongs, violent acts, acts of discrimination and prejudice or inhumane behavior, reconciliation is a work in process, it is something that must be recognized by all and practiced by all, but not superficially, it must be practiced whole heartedly and with sincere intent, this can be shown by perhaps giving, by sharing material wealth, by not placing economy and money at a higher status than human life, health and basic survival. The world works in sync with itself, all that are part of this global economy and culture are connected one way or the other. For the world to function peacefully all must work together and most importantly have a common goal and understanding of why, why are we different, and does it truly matter that physically we are different by appearance, that our cultural beliefs and practices differ, does it truly matter? I believe not, not in grand scheme of events. The common goal must be unity, a unification of understanding each other as diverse human persons yet part of the same family.
As stated previously, this is problematic at the present because of global history as a whole. For thousands of years “humanity” (not that we live up to that name) has judged each other based on appearance, based on their own insecurities and fears, based on the greediness and need to own and posses. Because of all of this, the human race has been highly conditioned to take what it wants as it wants, power is the goal, not balance and equality, the hunger for power drives the human person to take without thought, to self justify their actions through exclusion of various groups and peoples. To undo this train of thought, this embedded ness of belief in most of us, is not impossible but an arduous task which requires great effort by all, especially world leaders. This effort is strongly tied with the process of reconciliation. Each human person, even major players in regards to countries and world leaders on the global scale cannot reverse the past, and all the prejudice and all the discrimination that has taken place, but what we can do now, as a collective and unified people is take control and be responsible for our own thoughts and actions, self check and reflect upon our behaviors, attitudes, thoughts and actions. If we all could do this and constantly work on ourselves at an individual level with one common and collective goal at mind, over time, attitudes would change, minority groups would become extinct, and power of voice would be equal and dually represented, and majority groups would not exist and be measured by power, monetary wealth or even numbers based on race or global perception of a certain group of persons.
A start must be made, and it must be made with ourselves, many parts make a whole…