Human civilizations arose and grew because of human cooperation and organization
Not through the will of one man or a small group of people
You can claim kings, emperors, divine rulers, czars and god men who led entire groups of people … but it was masses of people cooperating with another that made it all possible.
We may be disillusioned, distracted, manipulated, controlled, coerced and taken advantage of … but it is still and will always be masses of people that make our world possible.
Buddhists would say that if you look closely, you find no distinction between yourself and everyone else. We are made of each other. Empathy and compassion are our nature because nothing happens to just me or just you. It’s one shared life, and we suffer when we fail to recognize this.
Even those leaders are just avatars of the shared humanity they lead and represent, they persist only as a creation of a shared culture and by permission of those people whether or everyone involved is cognizant of the fact.
The masses create everything, even those leaders because nothing exists in a vacuum
Human civilizations arose and grew because of human cooperation and organization
Not through the will of one man or a small group of people
You can claim kings, emperors, divine rulers, czars and god men who led entire groups of people … but it was masses of people cooperating with another that made it all possible.
We may be disillusioned, distracted, manipulated, controlled, coerced and taken advantage of … but it is still and will always be masses of people that make our world possible.
I love the African philosophy of ubuntu: ‘I am who I am, because of who we all are’
Buddhists would say that if you look closely, you find no distinction between yourself and everyone else. We are made of each other. Empathy and compassion are our nature because nothing happens to just me or just you. It’s one shared life, and we suffer when we fail to recognize this.
This is a really good perspective too!
Wait, is THAT the origin of the name of a specific variant of Linux?
It is indeed!
Neat!
Even those leaders are just avatars of the shared humanity they lead and represent, they persist only as a creation of a shared culture and by permission of those people whether or everyone involved is cognizant of the fact.
The masses create everything, even those leaders because nothing exists in a vacuum