Now a days the Fundamentalism is more dominating to humanity thinking. The terrorists attacks on the innocents has increased considerably. Let's discuss the solution of this problem. The common man has to live peacefully.
Dear Ashok.
I follow you when you say that nowadays Fundamentalism is becoming a dominant ideology and that terrorists' attacks on innocent people have increased considerably.
How can we deal with this dramatic reality? Some think that violence should be combated via violence. I am afraid that this procedure leads to a circle of an endless violence. So, instead of violence we should appeal to dialogue and to a reversibe exchange of perspectives. Another way to deal with this dramatic state of affair is education. As I see it, only education can save countries and even individuasl from possible collapse, be it violent or gradual. I know that education is costly, but is far less costly than its alternative, ignorance.
Best regards,
Orlando
Waiting for the discussion. It seems that no one is interested in this discussion. Meanwhile the Shrilanka series of bomb blasts happened. Please, post your views.
I think you could gain much from the writings of Erich Fromm. From the standpoint of a concerned survivor of WW2 he had many observations to make on the specificities and causes of the attractions felt by some substantial part of the population to being ruled by authoritarian sovereigns.
From another culture and another time, the 17th century Confucian philosopher Yan Yuan gives a kind of field theory of human motivations, a characterology unlike those known in the West, and much clear thinking about how imbalances in what we would today call character structure can make even good talents work to the harm of both the individual and his/her society. You can get this book and my comments on it from http://www.china-learn.info/Philosophy/CunXingBian_translation.pdf
A third main component are the philosophies that aid people to understand and acquire the practices of life that act to keep people from falling into the war of all against all that is at the center of authoritarian societies.
One of these philosophies (or relevant components of larger philosophical systems is that of "Social Contract." The Confucian philosopher Xun Zi had seen the crux of the matter around 200 BC. Enlightenment philosophers caught on much later, possibly via influences from China.
Being born into a relatively eufunctional society it is easy for individuals to believe themselves to deserve all the advantages of living in an ordered society while simultaneously believing that they owe nothing to anyone and in fact are entitled to behave as a parasite or even a predator. They are in fact at war with society, but they disguise themselves from society and excuse themselves by saying to almost any objection to their behavior, ""It's a free country, isn't it?" In fact the contract that one is expected to opt-in to is one in which the individual gives up the absolute freedom of a solitary human roving through nature with nobody being able to limit his/behavior except by brute force. In exchange for not being subject as prey to other members of a society one must give tacit acceptance to the duty not to prey on others.
People like Hitler have another solution. They make themselves the leader of a militia that exists within society and eventually forces society to capitulate to it. At this point the wolves farm the human population under their domain.
To almost all Americans, "social contract" means, "the government will take care of you." In accepting this simplistic idea they expunge from their minds any idea of responsibility to that society. They go so far as to imagine that the government should supply a substantial part of their needs, especially in terms of the infrastructure, without their having to pay for it. Did you ever wonder what makes deficit spending the sword hanging over our heads.
There is a bigger sword, of course, global heating., Again, nobody wants to take responsibility for fighting it. Rather than investing their money and efforts to ameliorate the problem they would prefer watch negative developments and simultaneously have an eye out for someone or some group of people to bear the blame for the continuing degradation of Earth as a home for humans.
On several fronts, the key attitude, the most problematical attitude, is shown by people who say, "Just tell me whom to hate."
Teaching empathy, teaching social responsibility as necessary investment, and teaching objective observations and analyses of all significant problems are, in my opinion, the key factors needed to reverse the current plunge toward a world troubled by militias and mass migrations poleward.
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