The Difficulty of Thinking bigger

Perhaps people should at last make a real effort to think bigger, I mean, all of us, Peter told George in a pondering kind of way during their lunch break. If we all kept our views and interests to ourselves wherever necessary, i.e. when we notice that someone else isn't really interested, and this happens more often than not, then we'd avoid difficulties between one another forever and a day.

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This applies to ideologies of all sorts, he added. If someone else wants to hear about them, fine, but may the narrator keep from being overbearing. If others don't, that should be fine, too. Accepting this would mean real tolerance, wouldn't it?

Maybe we should even all settle for one world language and speak our own native or favourite-for-whatever-other-reason languages at home or amongst our closest friends who share it, which is to say we shouldn't restrict our understanding of friend to common languages.

So what's the problem with humanity? There are the incurable bullies, for one; there are the people who enjoy controlling and dominating others, for another; there are people who are simply too aggressive for various reasons, there are all sorts of damaging characteristics out there, Peter shouted, that one could endlessly go on about.

George sighted assuming Peter had again witnessed something on his way to work in his train compartment in the morning. George didn't sigh for Peter telling him, he genuinely sighed out of compassion, and for knowing all too well that there was too much unnecessary trouble around.

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The problem is, he said, it often starts already with an inconsiderate neighbour and his aggressive dog that barks at just about anything, for the most part for no particular reason other than its own aggressiveness.

And when you kindly ask the neighbour to be more mindful of others, George added raising his voice which told Peter that this was about George's own experience, and to do something about the nuisance or even a potential risk to others, and the answer you get is "I can't do anything about it, you've got to live with it.", then that's it again, and you will find yourself compelled to do something about the problem on your own accord.

Doesn't this tell you once more, it is very unlikely the bigger problems, most of them man-made, will ever be solved? And doesn't that also keep holding you down and preventing you from getting up in the morning full of vim, thinking big by default?

I don't know, replied Peter despondently. You tell me where this is going to end.... We've come this far and we're still the ancient old stone-age people, aren't' we....