The Only Hope For the World

[Pharaoh]

by Doug Soderstrom, Ph.D.

The world has gotten itself into a real jam. I mean a humdinger of a jam! As in John Paul Sartre’s existential drama, No Exit, which so nicely portrays the inescapability of self-chosen evil, the inevitability of a self-made Hell, there seems to be no way out for the world; no way for the inhabitants of planet Earth to escape what appears to be the inevitability of a hell of its own making….. World War III!

Perhaps Jesus, as well as Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha), said it best when each proclaimed that we “should not do unto others that which we would not have them do unto us.” Put another way, if we want to learn how to get along with others, it is absolutely essential that we be willing to place ourselves into that of our brother’s shoes. That we ask ourselves how we might feel if our adversary were about to do to us that which we have been planning to do to him. And, of course, if having come to the conclusion that such a thing would be inappropriate, then, as a moral fellow (a moral nation that is), it would behoove us to act appropriately in regards to our brother (that of the other nation).

Alas, such is not the way of the world. Rather, it seems that according to our country’s foreign policy- the way we have, in fact, chosen to deal with other nations of the world- we have been inclined to put ourselves first, to look at things from our own rather petty, no doubt provincial, and nearly always biased
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[misternormal]

1. From the time that my children...

... could understand a sentence, I have provided them the wisdom of the "Golden Rule"... I can only hope that they go through their lives with a rememberance of it...

[European Socialist]

2. GOP Golden Rule--He who has the gold, rules.