We and they

The world is a mess now. More than 50 armed conflicts are ongoing on different fronts. They are reported every day in the news. We are bombarded with real news and shameless propaganda, and it is often hard to tell which is which. People seek power by whatever means, by distorting facts, belittling others, and exaggerating one's own understanding. 

There are two sides to every conflict: us and them. One side is right, and the other is not. It is important to study and identify the inner mechanism that leads us to feel we are on the right side. 

It's easy to notice and correct our obvious mistakes, but we lack an appropriate instrument to evaluate our deep convictions. Logic doesn't work for them; our conscience stretches enormously, and even intuition can be wrong and dangerous. 

In my book RIGHT NOW, I suggested that our worldview is based on a false assumption of separateness. Our second misconception is that life takes place in time. I presented that life is a live broadcast, where every action shapes the world and becomes part of history. You can study the past, but it is ash in the deep and often unreachable recesses of the mind. 

 Life is what is actually happening to you and me right now, not how we interpret it. What matters is how we treat others and what we see. Bad treatment and reckless behavior have become the new normal. The biggest human challenge is to see the world correctly, as it actually is. Most people's worldviews are based on the beliefs they have been fed. These beliefs create a person's identity, their perception of themselves. The basic nature of self-image is that it is distinctive and different from other people. Each person has their history and identity. What matters is what meaning you give it. If a person considers himself better than another, he promotes himself. If he considers himself inferior to someone else, he lowers himself. If he takes himself as he is, he allows others to be just as they are.