We are the ones who uphold the very system we complain about. We are the ones who vote the parties that we complain about day in and day out. Without individuals, there is no society; society is just a group of individuals. They are not two different entities.
Yet, many people believe that the world can be changed without changing the individual (which is a subtle expression of the entire world).
What do you think about this? Can we impose a system using the top-down approach, like we have always done historically, and expect the drastic transformation? Or do we need to transform the individual at the fundamental level since an individual is the driver of the society?
I stand for drastically changing the individual at the core, and whatever system emerges from there will be far better than the ones we have been trying since ages.
We can keep modifying the outer body of the car without fixing its engine and wonder "Why the car doesn't run smoothly?" That's what we have been doing historically.
And I liked your idiom "Watch your own side of the street."
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YES!!!! Unless the individual changes himself, the world will not change for the betterment of humanity. Change ALWAYS begins with the individual.
Or as I like to say, “Watch your own side of the street.”
We can keep modifying the outer body of the car without fixing its engine and wonder "Why the car doesn't run smoothly?" That's what we have been doing historically.
And I liked your idiom "Watch your own side of the street."
(Renee, if you think this newsletter has some value, would you consider becoming a free or paid subscriber? If not, that's fine too. I appreciate that you came and had a discussion :)