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| Why Forgiving Ourselves and Each Other is the Path to Global Justice |
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So once we stop blaming others, we start to see that, in reality, no single person, group, organisation, country, religion or culture can be singled out. We start to see that even those who benefit hugely from the status quo are in no position to actually change the system and we start to see that we are all caught - to a greater or lesser extent - in the vicious circle of globally destructive competition: a "prisoner's dilemma" from which there is, ordinarily, no way out. In short, we start to see - finally - that we are all in the same boat. From a collective realisation such as this, we would have gone a long way to creating the pre-conditions for building a genuine global community: the conditions of forgiveness and non-judgemental acceptance of ourselves and each other; the inclusiveness necessary to beginning our collaborative search for global solutions. After all, it is upon such a state of genuine Global Community that any properly functioning global democracy must surely depend. In short, we would have created the conditions in which we could recognise the reality that we are ALL ONE; all one in the recognition of our common human fallibility and 'brokenness'; all one in the celebration of each others' differentness, all one in the brother/sisterhood of humanity and all one in the eye of our respective God.
Fortunately, this latest and most essential of humanity's evolutionary journeys has already begun through the work of a number of organisations around the world whose perspective has moved beyond the 'first-tier' mode of protest, blame and 'either/or' thinking to the 'second-tier', non-judgemental, world-centric, 'both/and' thinking needed to solve global problems. For as Einstein rightly suggested, "no problem can be solved with the same thinking that created it".
One organisation that seeks to embody this new thinking is the International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO) which offers us all - activists and business executives alike -a means by which we can firstly take back control of our present, hollowed-out pseudo-democratic processes and, secondly, how we can co-create the policies necessary to achieving environmental sustainability and global justice. Finally it offers the crucial means for citizens the world over to bring our politicians and governments to implement them without any nation, corporation or citizen losing out. It thus turns the destructive, competition-led politics of globalisation on its head by offering global citizens a practical and peaceful way out of the 'prisoner's dilemma'; a veritable way for all of us to take back the world with a new politics of citizen-led, international co-operation for our emergent – but yet-to-be-born - sustainable global society.
References
[1] The Crisis of Global Capitalism - Open Society Endangered, George Soros, Little, Brown and Co. 1998.
[2] When Corporations Rule the World, David Korten, Kumarian Press & Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1995.
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