The French philosopher Luc Ferry* is speaking of the revolution of love, which has been going on a couple of centuries, especially in the western world. He describes the change of the marriage of convenience into a marriage of love. He describes how the first humanism: room for thinking is making room for the second humanism: room for social services, the neighbors, voluntary work. He is speaking of how the attention for our own family is making room for the focus on fellowmen. He even says
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In this world of crisis and pollution, pessimism and apostasy, of stock exchanges raping human standards, Luc Ferry is saying: mankind can have hope, man has developed love in an higher level, especially in Western countries.
What these Western countries have been doing in the rest of the world, how they have become rich in poor countries, how dominantly they have imposed their will, out of pride and arrogance is a subject for another blog.
In this world of crisis and pollution, pessimism and apostasy, of stock exchanges raping human standards, Luc Ferry is saying: mankind can have hope, man has developed love in an higher level, especially in Western countries.
What these Western countries have been doing in the rest of the world, how they have become rich in poor countries, how dominantly they have imposed their will, out of pride and arrogance is a subject for another blog.
But for now I say:
Western society has built a network of facilities for vulnerable, unemployed
and poor fellowmen. One has protected disenfranchised by laws, one heals the
sick and houses the elderly against cold and hunger.
These societies have
understood the message of Christ very well. They put into practice what Christ
impressed on man:
" You have visited the sick, you visited Me. You
helped the poor, you have helped Me, because what you do the least of Mines,
you do to Me"
In fundamentalist
Christian circles, for example, one thinks the Netherlands
is a country of Sodom and Gomorrah
But We in the spiritual world have a different perspective. This country has blown up some taboos, and has created by trial and error a loving society, with the least number in the world of unwanted pregnancies of young girls, not by abortion but by good information on contraceptives, where men no longer dominate women, where a gruesome dying may choose a gentle death. The country with the most volunteers in the world taking care of strangers with a charity, in the rest of the world only practiced within the family.
But We in the spiritual world have a different perspective. This country has blown up some taboos, and has created by trial and error a loving society, with the least number in the world of unwanted pregnancies of young girls, not by abortion but by good information on contraceptives, where men no longer dominate women, where a gruesome dying may choose a gentle death. The country with the most volunteers in the world taking care of strangers with a charity, in the rest of the world only practiced within the family.
Luc Ferry has a
legitimate message. Independent and free thinking through education and
political freedom, social services and good laws , and a severe attitude on
corruption have made the Netherlands into a land of milk and honey, and from Our
perspective a cradle of love and respect for fellowmen and for the free will.
" You have visited the sick, you visited Me. You
helped the poor, you have helped Me, because what you do the least of Mines,
you dot to Me. "
Luc Ferry is calling
Luc Ferry may be blessed, his writings may be blessed, his readers may be blessed.
My blessings to you all
* About love . A philosophy for the twenty-first century
