Us and Them

W-5 day2.
"... If whole gamut of experience of our species each individual may express, even so much it is an instinctive act, it stands to reason that our mind also, in broader terms is representative in nature. Holding a viewpoint (ref: W3, D2) would mean each individual takes note of his or her own immediate objectives in time and place against a landscape that has certain characteristics unique to him or her. For example Mahatma Gandhi resorting to non-violence was understandable. Being born and bred in a land that had given birth Buddhism and Jainism is it to be wondered at if Bapu had embraced Ahimsa as his weapon? It must have seemed so proper -and right too, to the masses more or less weaned on spiritual truths taught by so many savants of yore.
Vladimir I. Lenin was a child of his times and place as Gandhi was."
How Lenin transformed his experience as an ideologue (helped by his mentors) has is own distinctness. 'The end justified the means': so killing and disinformation were all permitted. For Gandhi whose credo was 'Truth always triumphs', the Bolshevics must have seemed like a devil's brigade. Martin Luther King Jr. was inspired by the Gandhian idealism but set in American context.

It must be ego who puts one at the driver's seat but if one cannot drive carefully and take passengers to the destination the driver merely wastes everybodys time including his own.
benny