๐๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ข๐บโ๐ด ๐ด๐ฐ๐ค๐ช๐ฆ๐ต๐บ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฅ๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ค๐ข๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ฏ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ. ๐๐ง ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ช๐ด๐ฎ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ง๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ญ๐บ ๐ญ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐น๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข ๐ง๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ญ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข ๐ฅ๐ช๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ง๐ข๐ช๐ต๐ฉ, ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฏ๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ด๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ณ, ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต ๐ค๐ณ๐ฐ๐ด๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฃ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ค๐ข๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ ๐ข๐ค๐ค๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ?
The political protests in Russia and Belarus, the Covid-19 riots in Western Europe, the disputed presidential election in the US, and the coup in Myanmar mirror the crisis in governance that the entire world is experiencing. People have lost trust in their governments, so they take to the streets, take up arms, and try to force their opinion on their countries. But the days of forceful governance are coming to an end. If people have no trust in the government, the government will not be able to govern. We are on the doorstep to a new era, where connected societies will govern themselves. Not without administrators, of course, but society will call the shots and not elite groups of manipulators who preach one thing and do another.
Todayโs society is divided because it is in the interest of politicians to divide. They sound divisive rhetoric into every microphone that gives them voice, and the hatred they spew sets people off against each other for no reason at all.
Think about this for a minute: If you never heard about racism, and you and your family lived next door to a family of a different faith, ethnicity or skin color, would it cross your mind to doubt their decency because of these differences, or would you relate to them according to the people they are? We are approaching a threshold beyond which the vitriol of hate-politics will stop working. People will gradually begin to see that hating other people for their ethnicity, faith, political view, color, or culture does not do them good. It hurts them and benefits the politicians who use this technique. When this happens, people will truly be willing to connect, and true popular leaders will rise.
They will not be politicians; they will be people who are true servants of the public, who make sure everything runs smoothly only so that people can engage in what really makes them happy: being together, socializing, forming bonds and uniting.
Connection is a power in and of itself. Connection is the engine of reality. Everything we see around us consists of countless parts and items intricately connected in perfect harmony that enables them to work flawlessly together. Every animal society also works this way, as do the animal societies within the overall ecosystem where they live. Only we, humans, through our hate-politics, strive to part what canโt be parted, break what canโt be broken, and we become frustrated when the work of our hands, the society weโve built for ourselves, does not function and does not provide for our needs.
When we give up on the lunacies of hate-speech and cancel-culture, and embrace the different elements that make up who we are as a society, we will find that there is abundance for everyone, and for anyone who wants to join. The only criterion for good living is connection among the individuals that make up a society. Thanks to opportunist politicians who seek to profit from our division, we have now learned that hatred doesnโt pay. We have broken everything and we are not happy. Therefore, now we can begin to build. Now we can begin to establish a society that follows one and only principle: connection. Everything else will fall into place naturally. And that governance of connection will be the real governor of society.
[Myanmar protesters residing in Japan hold photos of Aung San Suu Kyi as they rally against Myanmar’s military after seizing power from a democratically elected civilian government and arresting its leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in Tokyo]