What can we do to alleviate sadness, anxiety, uncertainty and fears about the prospects of military conflict?
The key thing is to realize that the history of mankind is a history of one military conflict after another. The Pentagon realizes this by defining the word “peace” as a time between two conflicts in which to prepare for the next conflict. History is a series of dates, battlefields and victors. Remember history is always written (rewritten) by the winners, never the losers. I do not believe that the nature of “self-interest” is going to change suddenly, rapidly or positively. Second, recognize that you are a microcosm, which lives within a multi-leveled and multi-dimensional macrocosm. According to the mystics, in order to remove ourselves from any negative section of that macrocosm and to find peace, serenity and joy, we must find our values deep within, and when we do, we find-wondrously and marvelously-that we are in a whole new section of the macrocosm. We should not feed the emotionality of the moment. The one recurring theme that I have heard is that Americans will have to give u
