News travels faster than ever before. You can live in absolute peace while hearing constantly about tragedies engulfing other parts of the world. There’s so much information about the bad stuff happening that you might miss the fact that humanity is more peaceful now than ever before. If you consider it your duty to be informed of the difficulties in the world, remember that what happens out there is based on the collective consciousness. You can’t rush the consciousness of others, but you can lead the way. If you want optimal results…
Focus on peace.
Jarl and Steve
Very intriguing! I do consider it a form of “responsibility” to try to be aware of what’s happening around me, almost as a manifestation of what’s happening within me, but there is naturally an awful chasm between news “events” and what humans report through their own perceptions, and what we think we are seeing from them. I do agree with your arresting remark that humans are more peaceful now than ever before. An excellent notion to keep in mind, while human awareness and reportage seem, like the weather, “out of control!”
Yes, I loved the way I heard Bill Gates, of all people, talk about it. He said it feels like the world is such a violent place because, in addition to the pervasive reporting about all the tragedy, our tolerance for violence decreases even faster than the level of violence does.
Steve