A huge first step would be for abusers to take a lesson from one of their own: the late transnational CEO, Ray C. Anderson. In his autobiography, Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: Profits, People, Purpose--Doing Business by Respecting the Earth, he shows how he woke up from being an abuser and developed empathy and compassion.
In the United Kingdom there is a program for abusers to learn how to accept responsibility for their actions and reform their ways. Perhaps they can take their program to corporate headquarters around the world, Wall Street brokerage firms, and government offices of obstructionist politicians.
In the meanwhile, we can each develop our own state of life. I feel inspired by these words of Daisuku Ikeda, president of the lay Buddhist organization, Soka Gakkai International, which I jotted down during his 1990 live-simulcast speech from Los Angeles, California:
"When you feel entrapped by the chains of society, stand up with courage (compassion and wisdom) and your life will be as huge as the universe."
Article comments
1 - Dr. Joseph S. Maresca
Americans need to consume less, waste less, eat better quality food and pay excess consumption taxes
to make sure that the junk food is taxed literally out of existence. In additon, we need to stay away
from costly foreign entanglements that do little except to fuel more terrorism.
2 - Glenn Contrarian
In the United Kingdom there is a program for abusers to learn how to accept responsibility for their actions and reform their ways.
Whaaaaaat? That's socialist! And communist! And Nazi! And Fascist! Worst of all, that's LIBERAL!!!! How DARE you suggest such a thing! It's our constitutional right to abuse everyone and everything - that's what made America great!
3 - Lynette Yetter, author of 72 Money Saving Tips for the 99%
Glenn Contrarian, thanks for the belly laughs! :D
4 - Igor
This morning I was listening to a talk by a Doctor of "Doctors Without Frontiers" in Africa who was trying to intubate some small babies so he could feed them formula. He looked out the window at acres of green plantings and reflected on the reasons that there was no food from those lush fields for his starving babies. They were guarded by Police: Private Property. The IMF and World Bank had convinced locals to raise cash crops like tea so they could join the cash economy and pay for formula. Of course they had no money so babies starved while tea was grown for the leisure class where they used to grow yams and sweet potatoes and all manner of good food for themselves and their babies.
5 - Lynette Yetter, author of 72 Money Saving Tips for the 99%
Yes, Igor, travesties like this are happening everywhere in our global home. Talking about them, while educating ourselves and others, are first steps to creating a more mutually beneficial future for all. Thank you, Igor.
6 - Lynette Yetter, author of 72 Money Saving Tips for the 99%
Thank you, Dr. Joseph S. Maresca, for your excellent suggestions.