Three remarkable TED talks which I shall summarize and make my own applications.
1. Social alienation [cultural PTSD] is widespread in this nation and is as destructive as physical/emotional trauma [individual PTSD]. I think social alienation is a driving factor behind legal and illegal drug abuse.
Another way of stating it: the American trinity of hyper individualism, hyper materialism and hyper ethnocentrism is destroying community, creating loss of social meaning and purpose. Extreme capitalism, the Wall Street 1 percent, is behind it all.
2. A woman doctor who has worked overseas in Third World countries where there are civil wars and terrorism; she says these are fueled heavily by an abundance of cheap small arms such as AK 47s.
The primary sellers of this explosion of small arms are countries that are permanent members of the UN Security Council, countries such as the U.S. and Russia. Those who are supposed to keep world peace are fueling another type of terrorism. Those who are complaining about one type of terrorism are themselves terrorists driven by profits from sales of guns.
3. War or non-violence
If the U.S. was founded on Christian principles---Jesus was the Prince of Peace---:
why were none of our founding father apostles of peace and non-violence.
why were there no Memorial Day honorees of peace and non-violence.
why are there no West Points training Americans in peace and non-violence.
why are there no Purple hearts for Americans dying for the cause of peace and non-violence.
Why are we going to spend a trillion dollars modernizing our nuclear weapons when that trillion could be much better spent on education for the world's poor and solar energy panels for sustainable energy.
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