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My Comment To
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"Surround
Yourself With Successful People"
Edition
Me, to "+khalil aliy" -
I'm
in the richest. per capita nation "Astrayliar" [Australia],
where materialism is 1st in being successful.
So your
description of poor people in poor countries is tragic, like an
ever-down-spiraling path, which must feed on it'self to the end.
Terrible.
But I think we in
the "rich" nations are heading that way too.
The dominant
paradigm of our modern culture, as fueled by our crazily avaricious
elites, and every aspiring person below them, is blind to the wider
and longer-term damage the materialist culture is doing, now to the
planet.
I have no doubt,
that materialism, which is the dominant culture today, destroys our
own Intellect, thus our ability to know when to say "no more",
of bad personal, social and cultural things and beliefs.
Our Indigenous
Peoples are so marginalized by the whites, that they too, like your
"poor people", suffer badly, and the Aborigine children,
so often the most astute and happy, likable kids, have the highest
suicide rates on earth.
Yet all our
mainstream politicians ignore their plight, bowing instead to the
land-grabbing mining cartels, and real estate corporations, mainly
owned by Britain and China, and of course, agricultural
multinationals, of, the white elitist culture of greed and "success"
in wealth and social standing.
Success is not
success if it ignores a moral and ethical position, of an equality in
the people, and Respect of life on all levels - [ except demons. ]
That kind of
"success" is in reality "failure".
None of our, or
of any other nations today, as represented by our false leaders, most
of them from church, ie., "false religion-false god"
educations, for that matter, have anything near what they need to
stop the down-slide of the "Quality" and "Community"
of Life, that certainly existed in pre-colonialist times.
I accept that
then, life was as likely very brutal, when push-came-to-shove, but I
know in Australia, the Aborigine had the Highest Quality in terms of
"Respect" of others, and of the world, of life, and am
inclined to think that most pre-colonial Peoples had that innate
connection with a Common Spirit, thus an Intelligence with which they
knew when certain ways and material things were not healthy for the
individual but more, were not healthy for the whole Group.
As you infer,
"the personal is cultural".
However, of
recent centuries, the west, the western, selfish, I believe quite
insane, elites, have popularized "individuality" thus
selfishness, thus ignorance in general, purely for their own
sustenance of their privileged lives, so people are deluded to
believe they are their own person, etc.
"NOBODY
TELLS ME WHAT TO DO!" etc.
They cause most
of the wars.
This "NOBODY
TELLS ME WHAT TO DO!" etc. is not true at all, and so is
dangerously wrong, as it's a spell which spreads with each argument
for it, and destroys the Common Good, and peoples' knowledge of when
to say "enough!"
As for the drift
of the posts to "being positive", I think that too, has
it's dangers, for being positive more often is for fear of reality,
and ignores the sadder, harsh negatives of life, and the
"worst-case-scenarios" a wise planner knows must be
considered.
Being successful
is not the same as being positive, in either sense of either word,
methinks.
Both obviously
have merit, but in "success" Ethics is a must, which
demands we deduce what "success" really is, as I put in my
earlier post, and if the goals we aspire to do not stomp ethical
fundamentals.
And positivity
too, for it means also to be wise to the unseen threats to any
"positive" path we take.
Positive people
very often ignore questions of morality, in their want to climb
higher on the ladders tr\hey are on.
And some of them
can be very hard, cold, negative things, making the thinking less
than "positive".
But, it IS
realistic, which often means accepting one's fate, being less
avaricious, more humble, True to your Highest Self, and, in the end,
of a more Honorable, Noble and Peaceful mind. The last being crucial
when your time to pass on has come.
So I say we must
be very wary of these simple, catchy clichés.
They are very
attractive, but can be merely more of those "good intentions
which pave the road to Hell".
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