A Global Community Project

Unity of Values (part two) March 2, 2023

“You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”.

John Lydgate (1370-1451)

This writer admits it is impossible to imagine how complex and difficult it is to oversee and manage a nation.

It is impossible to satisfy all the citizens of a nation, each of whom have their own ideas, opinions, and passions. As Lydgate wrote 100% satisfaction is very elusive and possibly impossible unless the people affected share an overarching commitment to a common ideal.

An overarching bond and loyalty can be a spiritual foundation, a monarch or an inviolable agreement such as a constitution, Each of these enables people to set aside their individual preferences for a sense of the common well-being.

Contributors to this impossible task are advancements in technology, education, communication, true and false information sharing, the elevation of independent thought and rights as well as the increased ‘me first’ attitude infecting individuals, communities, societies, and nations around the world.

Because of these advancements people around the planet are beginning to recognize that the current systems of social management are not working and the burdens of economics, climate change, deterioration of social values, etc., are making life in general more difficult for everyone.

The question that thinking people soon will be asking, is how much of this deterioration be tolerated? How long until human civilization as we know it begins to unravel? Even more frightening is what will human society be like if the current safeguards, as fragile and inadequate as they are, dissolve completely.

Regardless of where you live it is not difficult to see examples of this deterioration and not be affected by its influence throughout human civilization.

But wait! There is hope.
If we act quickly, there is hope. Our first question must be what organization in our global society has the power and influence to direct change that will benefit everyone?

Truthfully there is only one answer to that question … ‘Us’. The community of all the people of the world, the collective ‘US’. That is the only influential group that can effectively bring about a global change.
How? You might ask.

The answer to that question is a little harder to formulate but since it is our job to pontificate, we will try.

‘The people of a nation get the government they deserve!’. It is true. A government reflects the general attitude of its citizens.

This is a difficult concept to accept, especially for individuals living under unpleasant regimes. But if we drill deeper into the reasons for this, we propose that the unpleasant regimes took advantage of confusion, conflict, corruption or apathy within a nation where the people had elected representatives with diverse and uncompromising points of view or carelessly accepted at face value what corrupt politicians were telling them regarding solutions to short term problems or allowed aggressive leaders to usurp weak government officials.

UNITY

Unity is a powerful force. When people are unified things are accomplished. When they are unified around a set of values that benefit the common well-being the outcomes include the following: health, happiness, prosperity, and a sense of security. Within the boundaries of a unified set of values the individual may not get everything they want, BUT they can take comfort that they and everyone else will benefit to some degree and that tensions will ease and methods of resolving other issues can be resolved to some degree of mutual benefit thru a unified set of values.

The question is, where can an individual find a common set of values that will be acceptable to all people.

The answer to that is nowhere! A person can search the whole earth and not find an answer acceptable to everyone.

So what is an individual to do?

Perhaps the answer is to find a source that belongs to no one individual, organization or nation. A set of values that everyone can abide by for the sake of unity. A set of values that provides an element of benefit to all participants. Perhaps not 100% but sufficient benefit to raise up or resolve some degree of discomfort to all . This of course requires an element of compromise from everyone affected. Once there is an agreement some compromise will be required it becomes easier for the community to formulate a vision of an outcome that will benefit all. People will coalesce around the objective to be achieved and contribute time, energy, and resources towards its realization.

Throughout history we see the major unifying influence was religion that provided this kind of unity. People adopted the laws and teachings and bonded by its sense of community. Of course, because of limitations to travel, language, and human capacity religious influence was very regionalized and loyalties to traditions developed over years and centuries resulted in conflicts on boarders or in territorial disputes.

Today, because of our advancements in mechanics and technology and intellectual capacity, all the barriers to travel and cultural integration are being removed. What we have not found is a common set of values acceptable to all people Therefore quite possibly the answer again as in the past the answer can be found in religion. Not a religion of the past but a new forward-looking religion that encompasses all past religions and can incorporate all past traditions while providing a comprehensive code of conduct.

imagine if the leaders of nations around the world could find a common set of values around which to agree. What would be the result of this common unifying attitude. Imagine what results the human race could achieve.

Imagine the changes that would come about if the greater population of the world could raise its consciousness to view our planet earth as one human community composed of many unique nations. View the human-race as one race composed of many unique and diverse cultures each with their specific needs, languages, boarders, environmental conditions with a fundamental value that all deserve equal consideration when it comes to global resources, economics, education and elevated living conditions.

Imagine the advances we could make as a human race if the competitions currently tearing the world apart were totally replaced with globalized economics, globalized resource and environmental management combined with a fundamental principal of fair trade valuation from source to market as well as an enforced code of fundamental human rights. Guided and administered by world leaders first chosen by good character then by capacity working together with a view of the true station and capacity of human realty. With this fundamental foundation of global management, Earthly existence, Science, Education, Space exploration and finally our human capacity would have no boundaries.

End of part two

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