Life - How Should It Be Viewed?

[Bob Armstrong]

Private Life in relation to World Affairs

The Microcosm

We cannot exist in a bubble, no matter how attractive this may be, and cozy.

Our life definitely is one microcosm; but microcosm's are affected by the issues in the macrocosm. Some refuse to accept this....isolationism rules!

I can only warn that it will eventually come to bite you! Biblically, the quote is: Stay awake! You know not the day nor the hour of the Bridegroom's arrival. It applies to both the good,,,,,,and the bad.

The Macrocosm

Politically, in recent years, we have experienced the rise of the right. The recent re-election in the USA of the Republican Party government/Donald Trump Presidency continues this trend.

There is certainly legitimacy to both centre right and centre left (Though perhaps not the corresponding economics). But the Microcosm, as shown by history, has not done well under either extreme right or extreme left (I personally do not place Democratic Marxism among the extreme left of politics, though this is disputed).

My point is not to plump one politics over another. It is simply to recognize that politics, and depending on the nation, can create great problems for those of us attempting to live a "good microcosm". In fact it can be so disheartening re human nature, to lead one to want to despair, even while attempting to hide, and live the good life, within our microcosm.

Hope

Look around at your family and close friends........do you see a general character of love in your life events with them? Do you feel you express true love regularly?



It is this "love" in the microcosm which founds our "hope" for the macrocosm in darker times.

Mother Teresa, who spent her life helping the poor of society, taught (And this is not necessarily out of her own personal "Religion"; it is secular in nature):

"Do not be overwhelmed by the negative statistics re the world's problems.

Just look close around you..........is there someone you can help? Is there someplace you can help?"

There is sometimes great benefit to just beetling along under the radar, doing your own thing!

Bob A (Hopefully, a "realistic optimist")

[Bob Gillanders]

Thanks Bob A.
Too much time in the macrocosm can be toxic these days.
In modern parlance the phrase is "step away from the keyboard"

Instead of youtube videos on politics, I try comedy, SCTV, Monty Python, etc.
Much more relaxing. Signing off for hopefully another week, relaxing in my own microcosm.

Peace, goodwill and all that stuff. Later.

[Dilip Panjwani]

Private Life in relation to World Affairs

The Microcosm

We cannot exist in a bubble, no matter how attractive this may be, and cozy.

Our life definitely is one microcosm; but microcosm's are affected by the issues in the macrocosm. Some refuse to accept this....isolationism rules!

I can only warn that it will eventually come to bite you! Biblically, the quote is: Stay awake! You know not the day nor the hour of the Bridegroom's arrival. It applies to both the good,,,,,,and the bad.

The Macrocosm

Politically, in recent years, we have experienced the rise of the right. The recent re-election in the USA of the Republican Party government/Donald Trump Presidency continues this trend.

There is certainly legitimacy to both centre right and centre left (Though perhaps not the corresponding economics). But the Microcosm, as shown by history, has not done well under either extreme right or extreme left (I personally do not place Democratic Marxism among the extreme left of politics, though this is disputed).

My point is not to plump one politics over another. It is simply to recognize that politics, and depending on the nation, can create great problems for those of us attempting to live a "good microcosm". In fact it can be so disheartening re human nature, to lead one to want to despair, even while attempting to hide, and live the good life, within our microcosm.

Hope

Look around at your family and close friends........do you see a general character of love in your life events with them? Do you feel you express true love regularly?



It is this "love" in the microcosm which founds our "hope" for the macrocosm in darker times.

Mother Teresa, who spent her life helping the poor of society, taught (And this is not necessarily out of her own personal "Religion"; it is secular in nature):

"Do not be overwhelmed by the negative statistics re the world's problems.

Just look close around you..........is there someone you can help? Is there someplace you can help?"

There is sometimes great benefit to just beetling along under the radar, doing your own thing!

Bob A (Hopefully, a "realistic optimist")

You make a very valid point, Bob A, that Microcosm is where love thrives and charity begins...
and in a Libertarian society, the key ingredients of Macrocosm are enforcement of the Natural Law and 'co-operation' to build bigger and better, not the majority bossing over the minority, like the not-so-wealthy majority forcing the wealthy minority to pay humongous taxes!
In other forms of government, while the taxation occurs, the absence of enforcement of the Natural Law makes the wealthy minority collude with the politicians to enable themselves to exploit the not-so-wealthy majority, and the result is a society where 'wrongs' become the norm, and as everyone knows, two wrongs cancelling each other can never be as satisfying as one right...