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POPSGlobal goodwill necessary for human survival
Continuation: ... As the one humanity, we are working out our mutual destiny and evolving to give expression -- with our different nationalities and talents -- to the extraordinary variety of divine life but in the form of unity. This is obviously a major problem for humanity; the world is so divided, competition is so rife today. It is the very nature of our political and economic systems, based as they are on market forces, commercialization, aggrandizement and power. If we would survive it must be changed. ... Competition, I believe, is based on fear. If we look back at our history, we can think of competition as it relates to the animal kingdom. It is natural for animals to compete for food in the struggle for survival. There is an ongoing competition between the wolves and the caribou, between the lions, tigers, pumas and leopards and the various branches of antelope and deer. All of these are in competition. But they do not think of it as competition. ...