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Si le monde désaxé court à la dérive, c’est en grande partie parce qu’il y a trop de mouvements, pas assez de prière, trop d’action et pas assez d’adoration, trop découvres et pas assez de vie intérieure. Toutes les œuvres extérieures, toutes les activités ne sont efficaces que dans la mesure où Dieu en est l’animateur.
Marthe Robin

“It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community – a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the earth.”

Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist teacher

3 years ago now I posted a note on the Mexican People’s need for justice.
Justice was obviously flouted. In a country with one of the worst Gini coefficient in the world, violence is quite likely to proper.
Same reasons, same consequences.

No Justice, No Peace…

Related video: Return to Juárez

Letter of James 2:14-18.
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?
If a brother or sister has nothing to wear and has no food for the day,
and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,” but you do not give them the necessities of the body, what good is it?
So also faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
Indeed someone might say, “You have faith and I have works.” Demonstrate your faith to me without works, and I will demonstrate my faith to you from my works.

Lettre de saint Jacques 2,14-18.
Mes frères, si quelqu’un prétend avoir la foi, alors qu’il n’agit pas, à quoi cela sert-il ? Cet homme-là peut-il être sauvé par sa foi ?
Supposons que l’un de nos frères ou l’une de nos soeurs n’aient pas de quoi s’habiller, ni de quoi manger tous les jours ;
si l’un de vous leur dit : « Rentrez tranquillement chez vous ! Mettez-vous au chaud, et mangez à votre faim ! » et si vous ne leur donnez pas ce que réclame leur corps, à quoi cela sert-il ?
Ainsi donc, celui qui n’agit pas, sa foi est bel et bien morte,
et on peut lui dire : « Tu prétends avoir la foi, moi je la mets en pratique. Montre-moi donc ta foi qui n’agit pas ; moi, c’est par mes actes que je te montrerai ma foi.

pp20-21
[…] we are living in the middle of a remarkable increase in our ability to share, to cooperate with one another, and to take colective action, all outside the framework of traditional institutions and organizations.
p22
Now that there is competition to traditional institutional forms for getting things done, those institutions will continue to exist, but their purchase on modern life will weaken as novel alternatives for group action arise.
p47
[…] prior to the current era, the alternative to institutional action was usually no action. Social tools provide a third alternative: action by loosely structured groups, operating without managerial direction and outside the profit motive.
For the last hundred years the big oranizatinal question has been whether any given task was best taken on by the state, directing the effort in a planned way, or by businesses commpeting in a market. This debate was based on the universal and unspoken supposition that people couldn’t simply self assemble; the choice between markets and managed effort assumed that there was no third alternative. Now there is. Our electronic networks are enabling novel forms of collective action, enabling the creation of collaborative groups that are larger and more distributed than at any other time in history. The scope of work that can be done by noninstitutional groups is a profound challenge to the status quo.
The collapse of transaction costs makes it easier for people to get together - so much easier, in fact that it is changing the world.
pp133-134
There’s an increasing amount of evidence, in fact, that specific parts of our brain are given over to making economically irrational but socially useful calculations. […]relying on nonfinancial motivations may actually make systems more tolerant of variable participation.

Page numbers are from paperback edition - Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); Reprint edition (February 24, 2009)