People with meaningful purpose just have more natural incentive to take care of themselves, as well as their connections; not only to each other, but to all of the natural systems that make life possible in the first place.
Right now we let work create our values; by the cold logic of counters, net gain, and personal accumulation . And little could be more at odds with balance.
The right stance should be to have already found our values (both spiritual and practical), by personal investigation, learning, involvement, and loving interaction; those very values that we wish to work for, and towards, to preserve the structure that could continue to foster the stability to pass it on forever; together, fully engaged with each other, so that difficult consensus can be maintained. Not the easy path by any means, but surely the better path.
Think about it because we could structure a way to do this. We must first recognize that it needs to be done. We must then make the commitment to do it. Then we must begin the negotiations, and compromises, to make it happen.
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