We heading into a World without critical thinking. To have any chance of any identity worth while, you must experience what you identify with, without distractions.
If you want a life worth living there is nothing that requires your attention more than learning how to enhance your ability to recognise the values that you are going to need to live your life in the first place.
For example the beauty of the natural world, both in birth and death.
Unfortunately these days most of us do not having attention span long enough to really appreciate the importance of exploring an experience.
We belong to a world which is more connected on one hand and on the other more distracted than ever before.
To turn attention into behaviour is now extremely difficult due to the traction of the smartphones.
We live in a world full of distractions most of which are designed to waste your time.
We prioritise the easy things to do making it almost impossible to develop an identity of any sustainable worth.
You are not the content of your consciousness, your identity is built around awareness.
In a world that is becoming more and more defined by not your thoughts but by data becoming the sort of person one wants to become takes not just education but hands on experience, this is why travel is so important.
So if we are allowing yourselves to become digitalised data we losing the purpose of living your life.
Just because we see life we do not stand above it.
Your future is not the metaverse but your own imagination stimulated by living experiences.
And at this very moment let me tell you the above is a statement that could not be truer as I am being prepared for a bypass surgery.
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ITS TIME TO EITHER UP DATE THE UN OR TO REPLACE IT.
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FOUNDED 80 YEARS AGO THIS IS A WORLD ORGANISATION HELD HOSTAGE BY A FEW POWERFUL NATIONS.
AS WE ARE ALL WITNESSING WITH BOTH THE UKRAINE/ RUSSIA WAR AND THE ISRAEL/ PALESTINE MASSACRE.
THE UN AND ITS RESOLUTIONS ARE IRRELEVANT.
In a world beset by problems – climate change, disrupting technologies, biodiversity losses, new wars, geopolitical conflicts, instability of leadership, mounting debt, all that underline the shortcomings of the UN.
In an age of rampant impunity it no longer has any real clout.
Although it still does incredible good it has not keep pace with the shift in technology power.
Non of the vying powers want to be restricted or consternated.
Indeed if we look into the stated objectives of the United Nations and the results in the world, then we can summarize that the many meetings and events of the UN lead to no effective results, and it is quite simply a waste of time.
This is because it is not meant to succeed in bringing about friendlier relations between nations, but it rather serves as a platform for international political manipulations and power struggles under the guise of concern for human rights, food and water problems, and climate change.
Over time it became a snake pit of political interests, which made it deviate from its stated objectives.
Instead of acting meaningfully, positively and effectively, it became a podium for making empty speeches and sanctimonious declarations.
In addition, another reason for its ineffectiveness is non-accountability within the organization: no one is held accountable if its agenda is not realized.
The question then becomes, what could the UN do in order to become effective?
Simply put, it needs to rise above the political interests that have become intertwined into its workings, and operate for the sake of humanity’s common unity and benefit.
If it truly functions in such a way, then it should be given the needed authority to enact its decisions.
I think that the UN, the way it currently operates, should be discarded, and in its place should arise a worldwide educational institute that primarily deals with raising awareness of humanity’s interdependence.
In mid-July, Congress passed the Trump administration’s rescissions package, pulling back about $1 billion of previously approved UN funding.
And further cuts may be forthcoming: The administration’s budget for fiscal year 2026 proposed ending UN peacekeeping payments and pausing most other UN contributions.
U.S. and China are charged the highest dues for the United Nations’ 2 main budgets
Top 10 assessments for the UN’s regular and peacekeeping budgets, 2025 (amount in U.S. dollars)
Regular budget ASSESSMENT Peacekeeping budget ASSESSMENT RATE AMOUNT RATE AMOUNT U.S. 22.000% $820,385,984 U.S. 26.158% $6,539,598 China 20.004 679,786,970 China 23.785 5,946,278 Japan 6.930 235,499,085 Japan 6.930 1,732,500 Germany 5.692 193,428,686 Germany 5.692 1,423,000 UK 3.991 135,624,366 UK 4.745 1,186,343 France 3.858 131,104,685 France 4.587 1,146,808 Italy 2.813 95,592,919 Italy 2.813 703,250 Canada 2.543 86,417,630 Canada 2.543 635,750 South Korea 2.349 79,825,015 Russia 2.490 622,451 Russia 2.094 71,159,464 South Korea 2.349 587,250
With the Israel/ Palestine war this is the position the world now finds itself.
Yes Israel had and still has the right to defend itself however it does not have this right to the point of exterminator.
This is outside the boundaries of any civilisation, chosen people or not.
What of remains of Israel in the eyes of the world is now a tragedy. A shocking narrow society of religious unliveable with freaks starving people to death.
With half of Israel land now illegally occupied its destiny as a country is to suffer guerrilla warfair for years and years to come.
Unfortunately we in the west have produced the Donald Trump that has little moral integrity other than the dollar.
Israel now stands in a different place Hamas is not going to negotiate its own demise.
For Israel, the moral and strategic imperative now converge into one undeniable fact: only by helping catalyze a viable Palestinian governance alternative can true security take root.
A demilitarized, economically supported Gaza under Arab and Palestinian stewardship is not impossible.
For the first time in over a generation, this solution is within sight—and more importantly, within reach – if courage and clarity align.
Of course, Iran is not finished.
Of course, terror networks will adapt.
Of course, regional jealousies remain.
Certainly, internal political divides will not dissolve overnight. This isn’t pessimism. It’s realism.
I see a brand-new sunrise, including a chance for security reborn, a region realigned, a civic life renewed, and a culture reimagined.
This can only be the result of the war because at some point there has to be a return to a political process.
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Religious beliefs have separate us into Catholic, Jews, Muslims, Hinduism, Buddhism you name it down to Marxism or Zionism. From the Evangelicals Billy Graham to Micky Mouse.
When they don’t need evidenced they become miracles.
They have caused humans to destroy what is believable with beliefs that are absurd that have kill thousands down the centuries
The very word religion in many parts of the world creates division.
However it remains central to today’s society because humans need belonging, purpose and meaning to provide restraints.
This is why they worship supernatural power.
Eat a stake on a Friday and you went to Hell.
A Catholic belief.
Reincarnation.
A Hindu belief. That’s one of the oldest beliefs.
Cows are sacred, and slapping on Cows urine is good for you.
A Hindu belief
Noah ark was a wooden boat that carried two of every animal on earth.
A Jewish belief
Jewish are the chosen people.
A load of rubbish. They were exiled by god.
The only reason there are any Muslims, Jewish, Catholics, Hindus ect in the first instance, is because of an accident of birth.
Most of us have some holy book based in first century philosophy written by a god governing our livelihoods.
Islam beliefs are totally governed by submission to Allah who is god with Muhammad the messenger-for the Quran
Neither Allah or Jesus had last names.
Protestants designed their beliefs to suit their ideology.
Religion beliefs have killed millions and have been on the whole detrimental to the world but with Artificial Intelligence they will become less relevant. This is the world we are heading towards. Knowledge will be power.
How can the world stand aside and watch the destruction of PALESTINE.
Have we all become so desensitised with the amount of violence we consume daily that we no longer care providing it’s not us on the receiving end we turn a blind eye.
How can we allow a people to be killed by another group of people just because they live in or on a strip of land called Palestine.
If we give up on humanity we give up on a future.
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The human race has always carried both beauty and grief in the same breath.
However these days our young generation’s are not fodder to stop or start wars that can no longer be won by human sacrifice – world war 1 & world war 11.
Israel was and still existence because of terrorism. To have religion as the bases of who owns what in the twenty century is absurd.
Hamas is only twenty years old.
Weaponising religious beliefs seems to be a Jewish art .
Any form of fundamentalist should be is unacceptable in the twentieth century.
It leads to indoctrination of young minds to a state of brain washing.
However if we’re to have a world worth passing on to the next generation we must come together to redefine what it is that makes any of have a real value during our short time on earth.
This question is thundering down the tracks in the form of climate change.
What is important is that the next generation is educated before it becomes a void of moral values.
Israel will learn that life cannot be terminated without consequences and history will not just condemn those who commit the crimes but those who remain silent.
If you want to understand what’s happening in Israel listen to the below.
Violence exists because it’s the fastest form of communication within the animal kingdom.
We’re still animals. One has only to look at what is happening in Gaza to see how civilised we have become.
However our place with in the natural world has never been more important but unfortunately we continue to have little comprehension of what that position really is.
Unbelievable we are still unable to cooperate with each other- climate change by.
Our history, down the centuries is full of violence, to such extent that our offspring see more violence than any other animals.
From the day we are born we are fed on it as a form of entertainment.
The more violence we are exposed to the more violent we are, till we become desensitised to it. 90% of our video games are to do with killing.
There is a high probability that if we don’t get a grip that we will see another world war.
Right at this moment we’re facing the biggest challenge to our own survival – climate change.
What if any thing are we doing about it other than talking about it.
If don’t take action we can kiss our sorry assess goodbye because it affects all of us and once the hornets nest is stirred, violence pours out.
Not co operation.
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Governance refers to all processes of governing, the institutions, processes and practices through which issues of common concern are decided upon and regulated.
Good governance adds a normative or evaluative attribute to the process of governing.
From a human rights perspective it refers primarily to the process whereby public institutions conduct public affairs, manage public resources and guarantee the realisation of human.
On the other hand, without good governance, human rights cannot be respected and protected in a sustainable manner.
The implementation of human rights relies on a conducive and enabling environment.
This includes appropriate legal frameworks and institutions as well as political, managerial and administrative processes responsible for responding to the rights and needs of the population.
When led by human rights values, good governance reforms of democratic institutions create avenues for the public to participate in policymaking either through formal institutions or informal consultations.
They also establish mechanisms for the inclusion of multiple social groups in decision-making processes, especially locally. Finally, they may encourage civil society and local communities to formulate and express their positions on issues of importance to them.
In the realm of delivering state services to the public, good governance reforms advance human rights when they improve the state’s capacity to fulfil its responsibility to provide public goods which are essential for the protection of a number of human rights, such as the right to education, health and food.
Reform initiatives may include mechanisms of accountability and transparency, culturally sensitive policy tools to ensure that services are accessible and acceptable to all, and paths for public participation in decision-making.
The above is more or less the UNITED Nations definition however the measure stick I would use to establish good governance is what does the government provide for free.
Education and Health would be on top of my list.
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