How to live in society...

I sort of getting a feel for how to develop this issue of how to live in society. Our mandate is to relate and live with fellow people and creates in peace and harmony. But these channels of interaction and communion are only the means by which we enact the higher spiritual path. I won't discuss that here, but its about Goodness at root.

So we may be British, we may be Christian we may live in an aggressive nation who has been warring and killing for centuries like England. But this should not concern us because it is illusion. We have an army governed based upon this illusion. We have a complex government and legal system that is governed upon this illusion. But these things should not trouble us. It is the people we meet that should be our concern. A soldier enacts his duty and we do not judge his motive, how do we know why he does this. We seek only to relate to him in peace. Maybe he does the same, maybe he is hostile. Our point is to treat him as a human being with respect and love, to entertain his fantasy about being a soldier by all means. If you argue he is not a soldier that is just another fantasy. If all the worlds people are stripped of their roles in the game, what will we all do stand around aimlessly and naked? We play these games, we wear these uniforms, we always will but they are at the same time illusions, and make believe just like kids playing doctors and nurses. It is the point of all these to seek a harmonious relation with this soldier. It is just as probable that he is doing the same - using his make believe status and his uniform to enact his own humanity. When the horrors of war become too much each soldiers humanity will begin to cry regardless of his uniform and stripes. And so it goes for all society and all our lives doing. In the endless theatres that we play out our lives the goal is to use these roles as channels to transmit Gods goodness, to transmit peace and happiness to all beings.

I think I am disillusioned because I've looked at this differently. Why after all these centuries can't we just get it right now. Stop being compromised in this clockwork mechanism of politics which means that bad regiemes get supported because thay are useful in the bigger game. And, the same in our lives agreeing to something that is wrong because it is useful for other means. Temptation and compromise these are the mediocrities that keep the poison flowing forever. If it is wrong like a disease stamp it out. But we are selfish and we compromise the greater good for personal profit again and again. But it is not the society, or the people that are bad. We can't change that. It is only ourselves and the goodness, peace and welfare that we profit the world that matters, and for that reason society is our goal. Something like that anyway... lets try it out see what happens.