"The ultimate explanation of all things is a state of consciousness." Emmet Fox
All of us have to endure what Shakespeare called "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune," the vicissitudes of life, trials and tribulations, ups and downs, failures, successes, and triumphs. Each of us must deal with this reality. You can run, but you can't hide from life!
We are living in an era of accelerated change on all levels: personal, familial, social, moral, technological, and economic. While change is the essence of life, change can be disruptive, damaging, difficult, and often calamitous. Much of the calamity in our lives are situations we've brought on ourselves through our own thinking and actions. Other issues/circumstances are due to outside forces. For example, the age of European expansion and colonialism brought about disastrous changes everywhere they set foot on this planet from the fifteen century on. Everywhere they went, social and ecological disruption and upheaval followed. Their ruling elites rationalized their plunder and genocide by saying they were bringing "civilization," "spreading Christianity," and saving indigenous people from the ravages of benightedness, isolation, and savagery.
This, of course, was a made-up justification for what they were doing. That consciousness was based upon what I call reverse or anti-Ubuntu, where the Caucasians (Arabs and Europeans) felt it was their birthright to take whatever they wanted from others, "what is mine is mine and what's yours is mine," and might make right were their mantras.
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