STARTING DOWN THE TRACKS OF HUMANITY'S RESTITUTION
Since the two impediments to peace and love are fear and ignorance, we can safely say that, "It's the Fear, Stupid." What we need to recognize to get started on the journey to global recovery. My friend, James, stopped by the coffee house today (my office away from home-office--Peet's café in San Anselmo, CA) and confirmed what I had suspected are the biggest impediments to a successful and healthy society… I had shared with him this passage from Bill Bradley's' book, The New American Story where Bill says, "The only things that can stop us are fear, ignorance, self-centeredness, and greed." James' top two picks of the week for the main villains dragging humanity around in the mire of disease, destruction and suffering were fear and ignorance. So how does one or how do we, as a collective, diffuse the fear and educate the ignorant, especially when the ignorant are too frightened to be educated or to ignorant to know that they are run by fear? T...