But, through knowledge, we are connected. Knowledge, the overlapping of this knowledge, and its significance to our lives. Kant's Categorical Imperative can be universally held true given a time scale, a measured moment, probabilistically. May be the chances of this happening is 1:1000,000. The existence of energy, unified field theory, the Tao; knowledge converges, synergies blend and inter-subjective thought evolves.
This connectedness can, then, further be reduced through deductive reasoning to assert that we carry a part of others within us. So I am a little bit of my friend Michael and he is a little bit of me. And if a part of us is present in others, when we meet them then are we not partly within our own company? Therefore, also, then this connectedness has nothing to do with our race, or our colour, or our age, or our nationality, or any other attribute which makes us physically different from others.
This a priori idea then, to me, strikes as one which is beautiful and yet profound, surreal yet transcendental. We are like one big collective that shares, so to speak, metaphysical DNA which makes us simultaneously unique and predictive in nature.
Thus if we are so closely bound together, then why do we fight each other? Our Planet's liveable area is shrinking as the icebergs melt increasing water levels while our population is growing at an exponential rate. Some countries like Fiji Islands are deemed to disappear underwater by 2050. Someone observing us from outer space would be scratching his/ her head as these acts defy common-sense.
I hope that we can come together and promote peace, starting with United Nations at all of their gatherings. The G20 could make it their top agenda to propagate peace and harmony, and then benchmark their goals in the next year. Notable intellectuals, academics and philosophers like Edward Said, Noam Chomsky, Mother Theresa, Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Desmond Tutu and Hamza Yusuf Hanson, to name a few, have spoken for the need to make tranquillity a ubiquitous phenomena.
For without peace, there can be no real direction to where we need to head collectively. Beginning at its ideation, more than ever, we need to define a destiny that is without prejudice, without borders, that is inclusive, that will prevail. Let us embrace ourselves in each other, let us leave a legacy for our children to pursue until our objective is met, the objective of a single community existing in perfect peace - the ideal imperative.
