When Did We Stop Caring?
This beautiful young girl was only a few steps away from her father when a speedboat drove through an area designated only for swimmers to drop people off on the beach, and the propeller slashed her vital organs. Of course there are manslaughter charges and legal proceedings going on, but nothing will bring back this family's daughter.
I have one simple question for you today dear readers - are these things random occurrences or is there a reason for them?
I have one simple question for you today dear readers - are these things random occurrences or is there a reason for them?
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My Commentary
If we fail to reach mutual care in our times, then we can expect ourselves as a humanity to regress, rather than progress, as we head into the future.
Any current progress we make is for profit purposes. If there were no thirst for money, would medicine and surgery continue developing? Nothing would develop. We would live as if in a primitive society.
But now, after everything we've been through, we will feel a growing awareness of the need for mutual care. For the time being, the modern world does everything possible in order to obscure it, even though it is crucial to our survival.
Today, human egoism—the desire to enjoy at the expense of others—undergoes immense exponential growth, and we cannot object to its demands. Our overblown egoism could lead us to all kinds of disasters and we only have ourselves to blame. It's all order for us to agree to reach an agreement: to invert our attitudes to each other, to only consider the other's benefit without taking ourselves into account.
By making such a fateful shift in our attitudes—to become more caring for each other—we would see the dark picture of the world fade away, and a new harmonious and peaceful world open up to us.
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2 年Thought provoking as always. I don't actually think that profit motive (monetarily) is the only reason progress gets done. A lot of research is driven by a desire to make a mark and comes out of universities. While there is a profit motive there too (which is a bad thing in my view), I don't think it drives the process. I think we also need to recognize that people solve problems that matter to them collectively and therefore progress is very much a cultural construct. Regarding mutual care, though, I think one basic truth is none of us survives infancy by ourselves, nor do we make it far into old age without the care of others. Along the way, perhaps we have the privilege to care for others, be they our elders or our children. Mutual care is something that makes us human and in fact we cannot survive without it as much as we like to hide that fact. And so we get the fundamental conflict -- we need both some degree of control over the things we do (autonomy), but we also need the care of others and so we need to give that care also. Those two things define the fundamental tension of human society. And often in losing on one side, we end up losing on both.