The Dead Dog.

The dead dog of our conflicts.
There once was a community, they dug a well for the water and lived around it. One day a dog fell in it and died. When water started to stink everyone got worried, so they gathered up and one of them went down in the well to investigate. He found a dead dog and yelled from the well, that there is a dead dog in here. People looked at the mayor with questioning eyes. He said, take about fifty barrels of water out and then start using it, but make sure you take the dead dog out first.

Today we have a world which keeps on living without taking the dead dog out. From medicine to social systems, everyone is looking for a band aid solutions to buy time. If you have a headache, you take an aspirin regardless of the reason. Our problems persist and evolve into our major issues of life. From health problems to our local social issues to international conflicts. We have built an attitude to sweep everything under the rug and keep going. There is nothing wrong with it, but the problems don’t go away on their own. We as a humanity has to work towards removing the dead dogs of our personal and communal wells.

I am a self-employ yet personally, I believe the solutions for the poverty is not in the charities, it helps, but there should be a poverty tax in all over the world so the help never dries up. Since us as an individual can be insecure and at times, we don’t give anything to charities. That can make the donations, not only go up and down they can completely dry up which can leave a black mark on the face of the humanity when someone dies of hunger.

The religions preach to help the poor, but preach the religion shamelessly so it becomes a help with the strings attached.
Any human social system is a political system. When people get together with their fiver (read five bucks) the politics starts, whether we like it or not. Since all religions are group of people, the politics can’t be avoided unless it is strictly about the spirituality. Religions can claim that they stay away from the politics because of the nature of the business.

No matter how much I believe in the spiritual living, as an entity we can’t just live on the spirituality alone. We have to have our political systems to keep our governing systems going.

We are in the process of continuous evolution thus can’t put caps over our political systems. An evolving entity can’t practically freeze the evolving knowledge so we can’t claim that we can’t change constitutions or religious rules because they came from our fore fathers or God.
We need our political systems to run our affairs, but if a political system is designed to exclusively cater a particular group of people it lacks the spirituality and spirituality is needed to create peace, whether it is inner peace for the individual or external peace for the community, society or in general for the world.

We have been trying to get there by our politics without the spirituality, so the compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice and love is not involved thus our constitutions and even religions could not get the job done.

We have united nation with the veto powers to a few, Geneva Convention commission against the human right violations, but can’t do anything against the violations because all over the world it has been and is still happening. The democratic process with the back benchers because they can’t stand against their own party manifestoes, because of the sense of belonging to their party over rules their personal ethics or the interest of their constituents whom they represent.

Democracy, better than what we have had for thousands of years. For sure better than the kings and dictators but far from perfect.

The reason behind all that is the powerful human phenomenon yes, the old sense of belonging to a group but not to the humanity as a whole.
Religions say they are the cousins of God and they will take you to the heaven, everyone else is going to hell regardless of their help of humanity.

A mullah could be alive because of the insulin, but curses the western knowledge shamelessly. We as an individual should have the personal ethical protocol and system we believe in and credit where it is due, our sense of belonging should counter and balanced by our personal sense of freedom. Human being is blessed with the free will for a reason, God gave us the responsibilities to run God’s affairs.

Humanity is a jambalaya of the genes, you could be white and against all the other skin colors but your ancestry could have black in it. You could be a Muslim with the genes from Ganges Khan or you could be an American Muslim fighting against the Muslims all over the world.

Can’t you see that it is not the race, nation or the religion what makes you a human being? Your genetics can tell you a different story, and we all have the same genes. If you are different from the color, nation or the religion, genetics and spirituality brings you to the humanity, just ask anyone who has received an organ from a match but form different race, gender, nation or religion. So start with yourself to remove the dead dog of the sense of belonging to your particular group, one person at a time to create inner and external peace.

What happens if the climate changes? Oceans rises to sink the land of certain part of the earth, it is happening as I am writing. Would the countries on the higher lands accommodate all the displaced people or protect their borders and let the humanity suffer.
The face of the world has been changing for a long time, if we don’t change to belong to the humanity from the group mentality, it can be chaotic.

You can’t practically live together if your legends are with your respected clan, race, nation or a religion. Optimistically thinking, if we can live in the western countries as melting pot societies, we can do that at a larger scale as well. We just have to evolve to the next level of our evolution scale and that requires us to cross the lines of the sense of belonging to a group.
All circumstances are pointing towards the necessity of the evolution to the next level.
From internet to global warming, gender liberation and sexual freedom to space station to human rights are all signs of the changes we all have to adopt.
If we don’t change with the changes, we are going to end up facing the predictions of the holy books but with our own choices.

If you spend all your resources fighting each other, how and what are you going to do to manage the real problems looming in the near future, where every fiver is going to count.
We rob each other of that fiver by killing the individual belonging to the other group, but the net loss is to the humanity which keeps us behind and slows us down to reach our potential.
Imagine if the whole humanity chips in with their fivers to build the bridges. I whole heartedly believe, we can protect ourselves from the global warming because we have survived the ice age. We can conquer the poverty and hunger as well as we can stop killing each other on the name of our nations and religions.