Martin Collins response to correspondent from Minessota

Hi!,
I very much agree that "everyone" suffers under the current system and the prevailing value system warps the potential for growth and choice for high and low alike.What modicum of hope and freedom of thought and choice we enjoy has been won by a combination of enlightened members of elites and (more recently) through "pawn pressure."

A successful dynamic and organic society would envision a value system that includes different kinds of people and their interests, enshrines difference, though may transform the economic, cultural and class differences we have known to date in a new hierarchy.

Regarding the Karmic ideas in your comment, (I've been living in Thailand and Buddhist ideas are in my face and head of late) you point out the dilemma of whether helping others would affect their Karma. "Liberating one in an onerous position" I believe could never be a mistaken interference in a vengeful Karmic progression , as , by failing to act one would contravene the Buddhist values of charity, compassion and the equality of value in all living things.

No man suffers alone, and the family or beloved of one smitten with misfortune suffer with them , and sometimes more. The "bad Karma" or "cosmic pay-back" to an individual for past crimes or sins , thus spreads like a cancer , a social virus ,poisoning all it touches and spreading the dark seed of more bad Karma.

I find the notion of a "fate," an "intelligence" or "omniprescent redistributor of justice" which is so generous with its misery quite repulsive.

The very notion of the omniprescence , or awareness/purpose of the decisions taken and implied by Karma , must surely be "back door Theism." It certainly implies a controller.

Yours compassionately , Martin Collins