How The USA Shootings May Influence Others

We live in an integral system that's interconnected and interdependent. Events in one part of the system affects things elsewhere.

Here's a hypothetical example of how this integral system can work. I'm not saying this is what happened, I'm just using it as an example to show how we're interconnected.

1. First Event:
• On Nov 22, 2014 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, police officer Timothy Loehmann kills 12 year old Tamir Rice. [1] 
2. Second Event:
• Taliban militants in Pakistan read the news about the events in the USA and get new ideas about killing children.
• On Dec 16, 2014 in Peshawar, Pakistan, Taliban militants kill 132 school children and 9 adults, 141 people in total. 
3. Reaction:
• Hypocrisy:
• Not knowing that the two events are interconnected through the influence of our social environment, that the first event is responsible for influencing the second event, the same people who support the police officer shooting in the USA, condemn the Taliban shooting in Pakistan. If the shooting in the USA had never happened, the shooting in Pakistan would never have happened.
• Both events are deplorable and shouldn't have happened, yet in both cases, those responsible find their own ways of 'justifying' the killings.
• The details of the events are different, but they're similar in that children are dead at the hands of a police officer and Taliban militants.
• If I slap someone and somebody sees me do it, then - having influenced them - they go slap someone and I condemn them for it, I'd be a hypocrite. Instead, we should seek to do good to others and to benefit them in positive and constructive ways. By so doing, we'll influence others to do the same.

We have to change from personal selfishness (seeking to benefit ourselves) to mutual bestowal (seeking to benefit others).

Through the influence of our social environment (family, friends, colleagues, acquaintances, school, work, hobbies, radio, TV, movies, the internet, magazines, newspapers, books etc.), when we behave in negative and destructive ways, we influence others to do the same, and when we behave in positive and constructive ways, we influence others to do the same.

We live in an integral system that's interconnected and interdependent. Events in one part of the system affects things elsewhere.

Instead of influencing others in negative and destructive ways, we should seek to influence others in positive and constructive ways.

In everything we do, we should seek to benefit others instead of ourselves.

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References:

1. Shooting of Tamir Rice. www.en.wikipedia.org. Retrieved Dec 19, 2014.
2. Pakistan Taliban: Peshawar school attack leaves 141 dead. www.bbc.com. Dec 16, 2014. Retrieved Dec 19, 2014.

Copyright © 2014, Carter Kagume. All Rights Reserved.

Economics - A New Paradigm Is Required

The economic crisis that is affecting the world today is happening for two reasons.

First, the world economy is integrated but the people are not, they're still immersed in the quality of selfishness, pursuing individualistic profits. This gap creates the crisis.

Second, the tools that are being used to solve the economic problems are based on traditional models that no longer apply today. New economic tools are required.

The world is going to go through a major transformation. Our internal qualities are going to change from selfishness to bestowal/love of others/altruism. We're going to seek to benefit others instead of ourselves.

As such, economists, politicians and sociologists will be called upon to embrace this change so they can be actively involved in the process.

1. People Have To Change

Today, we're all immersed in the quality of selfishness, everyone's seeking personal profit and gain even at the expense of others.

However, the economies of the world are now integrated. They're completely interconnected and interdependent.

The gap between today's integrated economies and people's selfish individualistic tendencies is what's creating the crisis.
  
Our internal qualities have to change from selfishness to bestowal, we have to seek to benefit others instead of ourselves. We have to become integrated with each other in mutual concern and responsibility.

Once we become integrated with each other, we'll match the way the world economies are now integrated. This will create harmony and balance and the crisis will disappear.
 
2.  New Economic Tools Are Required

Traditional economic tools are being used to try and solve the current economic crisis:
a. Monetary policy, which is connected to interest rates, and
b. Fiscal policy, which is connected to government spending and taxes
 
These traditional economic tools are over 100 years old and they were developed when the world was a different place - countries and economies were more autonomous and self-sufficient.
 
Today, due to globalization, countries and economies are more integrated and interconnected.

As such, the traditional economic tools that were originally based on economic autonomy, no longer work in today's integrated economies.

New economic tools and models have to be developed:

• They have to be based on the integrated economies.
• They have to integrate information from all systems, not just from a few systems. For example, they have to incorporate behavioural economics, world wide trends and events etc.
• They'll have to incorporate the change in human behaviour that will happen when our internal qualities change from selfishness to bestowal.

3. Economists, Politicians And Sociologists
 
As our internal qualities change from selfishness to bestowal, professions that are closely linked to human society, such as economists, politicians and sociologists etc. will have to embrace this change personally so they can be actively involved in the process.

They'll be called upon to actively participate in organizing the new society, based on the principles of mutual concern and responsibility. This will ensure a smooth transition from the quality of selfishness to the quality of bestowal.

Summary

The world is going to go through a major transformation. Our internal qualities are going to change from selfishness to bestowal. We're going to seek to benefit others instead of ourselves.

As such, people will become integrated with each other in mutual concern and responsibility. In this way, we'll match the way the world economies are now integrated and the economic crisis will disappear.

New economic models will have to be developed based on the integrated economies, incorporating information from all systems and accounting for changes that will happen in our behaviour when our internal quality change from selfishness to bestowal.

Economists, politicians and sociologists will be called upon to embrace this change so they can actively participate in shaping our new society. This will ensure a smooth transition.
 
Copyright © 2013, Carter Kagume. All Rights Reserved.

Change from Separation to Unity