ANSO(83) — Truth
If your Goal is Profiteering, then there is no need to tell the Truth.
And there is no need to be Honest, since your only Goal is to Win while the other party doesn’t Win.
One must Compete to Win.
However, Competition promotes distrust.
We must therefore recognize that Competition and Profiteering fit hand-to-glove. Winning with Dishonesty and Lies is acceptable, it’s okay.
We live today in a very Competitive Society, where Success is measured by accumulated $Wealth — the more $Wealth, the more Successful, we believe.
But what if your Goal is to always be Truthful?
Is it then logical to assume you could never be a Profiteer? Never Lie? Never be Dishonest? Never have a desire to Compete, to Win at the expense of another?
Does it also mean you would need a different measure of Success, different from accumulated $Wealth?
We know that group Co-operation fosters or promotes Truth and Honesty in a Small Group setting — a setting that works together, plays together and supports each other, especially in times of need.
So what is needed then, is a new definition of Success, one that is not measured by $Wealth, but rather by something else.
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Something where Co-operation, the ability to work with one another for a Common Goal is recognized.
Where Truth and Honesty have more Value than telling Lies and being Dishonest.
When people Co-operate with one another, they tend to share the positive as well as the negative.
For example, when our distant ancestors returned from the Hunt empty-handed, with no prey to eat, everyone ate less (although given our nature, they most likely favoured the young, the Tribal leader, and in some cultures, the elderly).
And when food was plentiful, it was Feast Time, time to celebrate and perhaps even invite a few neighbours.
Perhaps Co-operation and Sharing also fit hand-to-glove. Where Success meeting Goals is rewarded. Where always telling the Truth is rewarded. Where always being Honest is rewarded in this New Society, this New Social Order.
So now perhaps we can define Success, instead of by $Wealth, we could measure it by Value — by esteem, by recognition, by praise, by one’s Honesty and Truthfulness, as determined by our neighbours, our friends, those we Trust and work with every day in our Small Community.
Competition or Co-operations?
Profiteering or Sharing?
What works for you?
(This is a Series of articles/posts on what I/we believe would be a suitable Plan B — A New Social
Order — A New Society Organization — A New Shared Organization (ANSO) for all of us.)
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