What Next?

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Syria is not a problem now. What is the next problem?

Iran and North Korea may be.

In a few more years, nuclear problems too, would not be a problem at all.

And then the question also rises:  What Next?

There might be some regional conflicts. England and Spain, China and Japan, African oil, etc. Conflicts are bound to happen, as the economic situation falls. But those are never big problems. Some wins, some loses. Smart people will keep an eye on all that, preventing someone in winning too much, and break the balance.

The one and lasting problem is the terrorist groups. Will they sooner or later decrease to a harmless situation?

There are two factors behind it. One being poverty, the other is culture element. Culture element is the ability to think. If you can help them to think properly, they will become rich and will not resort to terror acts.  But that is the basic human problem. People cannot even help their own children to think properly, how can they help other nations?

Ancient Chinese rulers had a very pragmatic technic to handle the problem. They work according to the philosophy of Lao Zi:  Keep every one away from knowledge, and then there will be lasting peace.  And that was no joke. They meant it. To encourage students to study only one moral subject, all students would become obedient civil servants (employed by the rulers) and would not be thinking astray.

And the modern leaders (Mr. Obama and his followers) were thinking in a similar way:

Spread the idea of democracy to the whole world, problems would be solved.

But democracy was only a technical means for the ancient Greeks; they had more subtle inner wisdom above the technical means.

Democracy is useful to wise people only.

If you encourage a group of pigs to select their leader, they could have no other option, but to select another pig to lead them. They will not be thinking wiser, and poverty will remain. Poverty seems to be more eternal then other issues. When they have no other means to earn a living, there will not be peace. We can only hope, terrorist thoughts are not eternal.

How can you encourage the world to “think”?

Yes, if people are wise enough, they will find a means to make a living, and settle every thing peacefully.

We have to stop here. As the problem is too big an issue and we have no other choice, but to guess, what other issue would arise somewhere in the planet and need attention to.

And our question remains: “What next”.

If I say, the next issue is philosophical, you will laugh.

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