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border-less world, buddhism, Christianity, crowdfunding, Hinduism, Islam, Janlokpal, Jasmin revolution, Occupy Wall Street, Religion and Spirituality, Social media for social service, Social work, Tahrir square, Vasidhev Kutumbakam, Washington Consensus
Let us imagine, a border-less world. A world where
Border-less world
1. people can move from one place to the other without Visas
2. goods and services can be bought and sold without import/export duties
3. education is free (at least basic education)
4. people would be free to do what they want to do (not taking law in their hand though)
I believe both the leading economic “-isms” and many spiritual/religious “-isms” have been trying to do that for years.
The economic “-ism” are capitalism and socialism. Socialists want this by making a world a single big society where everyone is working for the society. Capitalists are trying to do it through Washington Consensus and IMF. Until now the results have been failure. Russia failed, China becoming a capitalist USA (being protectionist) walking on the way to become more socialistic. Seems There could be a middle path where both these -isms are together.
Religious groups “-ism” are Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism etc. Christianity wants the world to be Christan, Islam talks about Universal brotherhood. I am not sure about the other two asking people to convert to their religion though. However, Hinduism talks about Vasidhev Kutumbakam. Vasidhev Kutumbakam means one world family. But the idea all over the world is unity and unifying the world in different ways.
All this is failing because – the ulterior motives are money or fan following (I mean increasing number of followers of the religion). Since both they ways seem not working, what if we turn to something else, no politician, no economist and no religious group to lead. People leading the people’s movement!
Take the following case – Social media for social service, crowd sourcing based funding (crowd funding) and initiatives such as Janlokpal (India), Occupy Wall Street (USA), Jasmin revolution (Tunisia) and Tahrir square (Egypt) etc. If people are empowered yet are asked not to encroach on others freedom. What if we really become an educated world, without politics, without divisions, without borders.
This may happen if we remove ego and greed from our society!
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