The recent global survey, conducted by WIN/Gallup International, polled residents in 68 countries on everything from the global economy to politics and living conditions.
According to the poll, 24 percent of the surveyed countries ranked the United States as the greatest threat to world peace today, followed by Pakistan at 8 percent, China at 6 percent and four countries (Afghanistan, Iran, Israel and North Korea) tied at 5 percent.
Conclusion
Psychiatrist John Mack asserted the simple, stark reality that the existence of life on our planet hangs by a thread and that: "Unless we act quickly to take responsibility for our fate, we [all] may well be - like the 'good Germans' of the 1930s and '40s, permitting the final holocaust to be committed in our names."
Clearly, we need to teach children, in both our homes and our schools, the benefits and capacities needed for critical thinking. Workplaces need to reward divergent thinking. And we need to intensify our own self-awareness, as well as call out distorted thinking and conclusions whenever it is possible.
We have been given the evolutionary gift of a pre-frontal cortex capable of self-awareness and complex thought. Will we use it?
It would seem that many at the pinnacle of power think of the population as stupid, gullible, "useless eaters." Whether we accept and live out these designations is up to us.
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