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This Monday I was asked to give an impromptu invocation at our rotary meeting. No problem, but I had to think of something quick. I had read a story about North Korea in the LA Times that morning, about how there was no personal freedom in that country and how the outside world is starting to infiltrate into closed societies like China. How long can a government keep freedom of information away from billions of people? When will information become so readily available that the minds of people collectively begin to see the differences in people and make us not be afraid?
Of course as we live in this world, our views of the world and our understanding of the world change. More of us continue to move forward and see progress. Many cannot cope with the world changing, so they turn to fundamentalism in politics, society, or religion. Fundamentalism may lean to the right or the left, it makes no difference. As the extremes move the rest of us along toward understanding the world is changing, ideas of the world are changing, and we need to change with the world if we are going to move forward in life.
Of course, that is the purpose of Life Motivations: to discover how to be more personally successful. How this is accomplished is to understand that the world is changing, the people in the world are changing, and that no amount of people working against change will stop it.
Georg Hegel the German Philosopher took a page out of Aristotle and talked about the dialectic of life, and how the left and the right, the up and down, all become the center at one time, and then the center becomes the left or the right or the up and down.
What are you? I myself am proud to be part of the free world where we can think and discover truths that change as we and the world get older.
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