Nicholas Truske's Comments

In our dynamic cooperative cumulative endeavors; our knowledge, creativity, strength of character, human goodness, integrities need to be drawn upon so that we can live in productive, nurturing peace—together. So please for your own well being and for all of us, do your own crucial political work by learning from history, cultivating oneself, meditating, facing your own fears, caring for yourself — without doing harm to others. Body work such as massages, exercises, Yoga, Tai Chi and Qigong are very helpful—even necessary. Also be responsible and do your own intellectual work to do no harm (ahimsa), intentionally or otherwise, to others while avoiding being harmed yourself — a great challenge in these very harmful times since, for example, the taxes citizens all around the world are forced to pay include many harmful, corrupt aspects.
An ethical response to all the political corruption; in the tradition of Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the Dalai Lama is the Libertarian Pledge:
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT I DO NOT BELIEVE IN OR ADVOCATE THE INITIATION OF FORCE AS A MEANS OF ACHIEVING POLITICAL OR SOCIAL GOALS.

We are foolish to depend on government or religeous representatives to do our own work in this regard, since historically they have been the main agents of the long history of war. There is no peace with strong governments and weak people. There is no power vacuum if we each realize our own power and responsibilities—perhaps re-inventing something like the Chinese Self-Strengthening Movement of the late 1800’s at the individual self level of society. (The Chinese people would do well to instill in their leaders the compassion displayed by the Dalai Lama.)
from: Words of Truth A Prayer Composed by: His Holines Tenzin Gyatso The Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet
“... Those unrelentingly cruel ones, objects of compassion,
Maddened by delusion’s evils,
wantonly destroy themselves and others;
May they achieve the eye of wisdom,
knowing what must be done and undone,
And abide in the glory of friendship and love.”

“The change now required must come from within ourselves, within our thinking--a shift in our attitude toward information itself. The information we choose is the information we serve. Like electricity, information is polarized; it is either creative or destructive. Destructive information is not evil; it is simply programmed to destroy ... ”The human mind ... is designed to operate on the creative, energy-rich currents of living information. Destructive informational currents distort and eventually block its perception . . . . “We are embodiments of the universe’s truth, products of its creativity, interpretive mechanisms it has placed here to experience and enjoy dimensional life. Our human biocircuitry is designed to create, but until we clearly understand the vital distinction between forms of truth and truth’s living reality, our bodies’ higher creative functions cannot be activated.”
Ken Carey, “Where Do We Draw the Line?,” from Solstice Shift, edited by John Nelson (Hampton Roads, 1997)

Let’s get to work, we’ll all feel much better—then we can more truly enjoy being human while singing and dancing together and caring for widening circles of loved ones . . .
As Robert Heinlein says in Time Enough for Love, “The more you love, the more you can love---and the more intensely you love. Nor it there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just.”