This was emailed to 17 US Senators, Republican & Democrat, and tweeted to CNN & MSNBC TV personalities, and others yesterday:
I am writing to share a message of urgency and hope—a vision for global unity and prosperity that aligns with the values of service, peace, and collective responsibility. As someone with significant influence and a platform to inspire change, I believe this message resonates deeply with the challenges and opportunities of our time.
“It is hoped that private firms and entrepreneurs will have the ambition to serve their nations, dedicate themselves to development, abide by the law, conduct business ethically, promote common prosperity, and contribute to the advancement of a modern, equitable society.”
Imagine if every private firm and entrepreneur across the globe—East, West, North, and South—embraced this goal as part of our shared humanity. In this era of unprecedented global connectivity, for the first time in 6,000 years of human history, we have the tools to unite and work toward a common purpose. This is not just an ideal; it is a necessity.
As a Canadian closely observing the unfolding events in America, I am convinced that if we, as a global community, can align our efforts with this vision—guided by divine wisdom—we can achieve what has been prophesied for generations:
“They shall beat their swords into plow shares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.” (Isaiah 2:4)
This is the Hope of the Ages, and it is within our grasp—but only if we act now.
The Stakes Could Not Be Higher. Powerful forces are at work to prevent this vision from becoming reality. The rich and powerful, entrenched in a pyramid system that prioritizes their interests, are resisting the change we desperately need. This system, with its narrow base of wealth and power at the top, is inherently unstable. It is like the inverse pyramid, teetering on its tip, ready to topple—a symbol of fragility and impending collapse, pictured in the Israeli Star of David.
However, there are signs of hope. The proposed cuts to the Pentagon budget by Trump’s America First Christian Nationalists, while controversial, could be a first step toward redirecting resources from war to peace. This is a necessary disruption, no matter how challenging.
The approach matters. The current strategy of Shock and Awe risks a hard crash rather than the more manageable, though still difficult, hard landing. The people must have a voice in this process. If we fail to cooperate, the pyramid of power will collapse under its own weight, taking everyone down with it.
The Time to Act is Now. As President John F. Kennedy once urged, “Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” This timeless call to collective responsibility resonates now more than ever. We must rise above self-interest and work together for the greater good.
We cannot afford to wait. The choices we make today will determine whether we fulfill the ancient prophecy of peace or succumb to chaos. Let us come together, across borders and ideologies, to build a world where prosperity is shared, where nations no longer wage war, and where humanity thrives as one.
This is not just a dream—it is a call to action. The future is in our hands.
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Dear Ray,
Thank you very much for publishing your latest post entitled “HAVING EYES TO SEE”!
How admirable of you to have “emailed to 17 US Senators, Republican & Democrat, and tweeted to CNN & MSNBC TV personalities, and others yesterday”! However, good advice often falls upon deaf ears, unless the following issues can be addressed.
Rejection of Critical Thinking and Objective Reasoning with Seven Insidious and Corrosive Conditions
As the third decade of the third millenium dawns, the skill and resolve for winnowing truth from falsehood have become more wanting in humans than ever before. Falsity trumps probity; fallacy swamps clarity. In short supply and chronic retreat are the cognitive tools and intellectual acumen necessary to recognize the errors or defects propagated in quotations, statements and claims from numerous sources, including the media, academia, luminaries, dignitaries, celebrities, ideologues, politicians, pundits, stakeholders, advertisers, influencers, Internet users and bloggers, particularly in the era of misquotations and disinformation, numerous instances of which seem to be intractably stoking people’s partial or utter ignorance as well as growingly courting their emotional drives, biased attitudes, cardinal urges, primal impulses and tribal instincts. Riding on these naked vulnerabilities, the unprincipled, ambitious, acquisitive, illiberal, ruthless or predatory opportunists, ranging from (those who are) wrongdoers, miscreants, malefactors and reprobates to profiteers, disinformers, obscurantists, hatemongers, extremists, plutocrats and despots, are able to thrive with greater gusto, impunity or even savagery because there simultaneously exist four of the most insidious and corrosive conditions fuelled and intensified by media manipulation and Internet manipulation, whilst frequently exploited and exacerbated by a sizeable number of ideologues, demagogues, provocateurs, influencers, conspiracy theorists, corporate entities, state agents and political elites:
(1) The prevailing anti-intellectualism
(2) The cult of anti-expertise sentiment
(3) The politicization of science
(4) The prevalent manifestation of populism
These four social conditions along with social inequality and social polarization, unprincipled opportunists, media manipulation and Internet manipulation have coalesced to signify a widespread and deepening rejection of critical thinking and objective reasoning, and a significant rise of conspiracy ideations, political misperceptions and illiberal values, resulting in the erosion of civil liberties, democratic principles, civil societies and social norms, whilst highlighting consequential aspects of social inequality and social polarization, all of which are cumulatively distorting people’s opinions and judgements about, and progressively affecting their roles and participations in, some of the most important matters in their lives. As well as being intellectually and culturally deprived or polarized, many segments and cohorts of the population can be easily convinced or manipulated to defend, support or purvey the interests, beliefs, agendas and actions of those who propagate problematic quotations, statements or information intended to be factually inaccurate, misleading, erroneous, spurious or conspiratorial.
SoundEagle🦅
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Dear Ray,
Confirmation Bias – how to get out of the Echo Chamber
This detailed infographic shows the role of Internet giants and information, the prevalence of filter bubbles and echo chambers, plus the “ONE UNDERLYING HUMAN FLAW” fuelling “[t]he crisis of fact that permeates throughout social media”, namely, the confirmation bias, which, as depicted, can be avoided by practising mindfulness and emotional intelligence through self-control, self-awareness and empathy; engaging in informed and respectful debate through curiosity, scepticism and open-mindedness; and using good research skills such as taking online or local courses on news literacy and getting news as directly as possible from the source.
Confirmation Bias – how to get out of the Echo Chamber
SoundEagle🦅
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Greetings Soundeagle! It would take a long time for me to reply in detail to your comments on my post, ‘HAVING EYES TO SEE.’ As you can see from the Old Testament image, that is only the beginning the title is based on.
Christ Jesus repeats it more specifically in the New Testament of this Year 2025 of THE COMMON ERA Christ Jesus ushered in.
‘For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.’
The question remains? How to behave in these UNCOMMON TIMES?
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Dear Ray,
The answer(s) to your question(s) can be found in this post, which meticulously analyses salient matters and perilous issues that have both caused and defined “these UNCOMMON TIMES”:
The crux of such matters and issues can be outlined as follows:
Disinformation 101 Infographic
In an attempt to debunk the disinformation tactics of science deniers and climate change sceptics, Australian cognitive psychologist Dr John Cook, the founder of the science platform SkepticalScience.com and the creator of the comic character “Cranky Uncle”, introduced in 2013 five denial techniques encapsulated in a catchy acronym FLICC to stand for Fake experts, Logical fallacies, Impossible expectations, Cherry picking and Conspiracy theories. Collaborating with the SkepticalScience.com team and Hamburg illustrator Marie-Pascale Gafinen, the “leading German-language online resource on climate communications” providing up-to-date reporting, conferences and workshops at klimafakten.de has developed the Disinformation 101 Infographic to serve as a “vaccination” against disinformation campaigns.
That both misinformation and disinformation can pollute people’s mind not merely by virtue of their problematic contents and their being championed by fake experts but also on account of people’s reasoning fallacies and cognitive biases that predispose them to unrealistic expectations, cherry picking and conspiracy theories can hardly be overstated, considering the ubiquity, vehemence and abject absurdity of contrarian claims that defy or denounce empirical accuracy and ethical integrity even to the point of thwarting, stalling or stifling worthwhile policies and beneficial measures.
SoundEagle🦅
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I should have known in your awesome exclusive expansive personal Blog you have written about almost everything. Just the numerous links on the side are evidence of that.
Reading ‘Disinformation 101 Infographic’ we generally have the same POV.
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Dear Ray,
SoundEagle🦅
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