(Continued from Part 1, yesterday.)
Armed with our survival skills, right/wrong people set out to win in a zero-sum game.
There’s only so much to go around and I want to make sure I’m one of those who gets it.
This is strictly win/lose and I’m gonna win.
I’m looking out for Number One. You snooze; you lose. Some shark ate your lunch.
This is the kind of world we create. At worst we have the untermenschen, the superior race, and extermination.
I’m willing to bet that there has not been a decade in human history without a war being fought somewhere arising out of an argument over who is right and who is wrong.
No one wants to be wrong and yet the paradigm dictates that someone must be right, which means that someone must also be wrong. Such is duality.
We can tinker with the paradigm. We can come up with no-fault insurance. No blame, no fault, etc.
But the paradigm itself dictates that we engage in self-serving behavior. And we do until we feel the emptiness of such an approach and begin to look for something different.
We find that the real rescue lies not in repairing the paradigm but in transforming us and the circumstances.
(To be concluded in Part 3, tomorrow.)