I know that all things are connected, all life, all matter, all thoughts, all actions. Everything is connected. So when I look at anything, I try to look at its connection to everything, as best I can. The big picture not just some microscopic section. People make decisions about how they live according to the way they see the world around them. Humans on this planet are ego driven and see themselves as individuals, separate from nature, separate from each other. This leads to the mindset of man against nature, survival of the fittest, dog eat dog. This idea of separateness could be traced back to the idea of God i.e. creator, created. This notion invades our every thought and effects the way we see the world around us, and none are immune. All things that live basically want the same thing, to be happy , healthy and comfortable. We don’t want to see or think about bad things because it is uncomfortable for us to do so. We ignore and disregard facts that might effect our comfort zone.

The people that control the resources of this planet, through religion, government and media have encouraged and promoted this way of looking at things because it enables them to achieve their control over us. Being instinctively good, there is a conflict with in us to want to make things better. So we give to charities, or work for a cause we believe in, or vote democratic, or whatever. However when you look at history, people have always done this. There have always been groups and individuals that have tried to make things better. Has it worked? Are things better? Fact is that percapita more people are starving and homeless or being killed than ever before, not counting times of epidemics, world wars etc. The only effect I can see all these things having on the big picture is to ease the conscience and make the individuals involved feel better about themselves, but it really isn’t doing anything to fix the problems. It is like putting a band aid on a hem raging gash, you my stop some of the blood flow but you do nothing to repair the damage. Now I am all about helping people and I do it all the time on the individual level, but if it lulls you into a sense of well being and you then ignore the facts of the world situation, then you are doing more harm than good. With our technology and abilities there is no legitimate excuse for hunger, homelessness, or untreated illness anywhere on this planet. America alone wastes enough food to feed the hungry of the world. We waste enough resources to house and supply energy for the poor of the world. This is all fact and if you do not believe it, you are not looking around and you are ignoring reality.

So what is to be done that can actually help? I believe that the first and most important thing we can do is change the way we look at the world around us. We are born into this universe as part of it. We are not alone or separate from it in any way. If we do or allow wasteful things to happen, it has an impact on  everything from that point on. Right now I am doing the only thing one person can do. I am trying to get as many people thinking about all of this as I can. Because the only way things will ever get better is when we make the change in mass. And the real change that needs to happen first is the change in the way we think.