About Tolerance and Common values
(The article was published in www.thejakartapost.co.id)
In retrospective examination, during the last 200 years, - nationalism, throughout the world, made much more harm than good. Any division of humanity based on religion, ethnicity, and nationality, caused more hatred than love, more discrimination than equality.
I prefer a situation where states are being used only as administrative division of humanity, the same way as New Jersey and Pennsylvania are.
Linking any country with certain fixed values is causing legitimate minorities to feel excluded and it prompting hatred toward any citizen who is not sharing the 'common' values. By product, it stopped any progress in values. Attempts to find shared values for the society are attributed to the same darker sides of human psyche that lead to totalitarian or theological regimes. Any totalitarian regime started with a fight for common values…
We have to stop encouraging our kids to be proud of their nation, religion, and ethnicity. We must ask them to be proud of their personal (and their own kids') achievements only, - to be proud of their love and assistance to every human being without discrimination.
For everyone who want to see brotherhood among humanity, less hatred, and less wars, - any new split between human groups will just make the fulfillment of our supreme target take more time.
Intellectual elite everywhere should starve to promote tolerance instead of finding 'common' values. They are absolutely two different paths. Wherever there are 'holy' 'common' values, - there is less tolerance, and by product, more hatred, division, and discrimination. It's true for Europe, and it's true for Indonesia too.
I prefer a situation where states are being used only as administrative division of humanity, the same way as New Jersey and Pennsylvania are.
Linking any country with certain fixed values is causing legitimate minorities to feel excluded and it prompting hatred toward any citizen who is not sharing the 'common' values. By product, it stopped any progress in values. Attempts to find shared values for the society are attributed to the same darker sides of human psyche that lead to totalitarian or theological regimes. Any totalitarian regime started with a fight for common values…
We have to stop encouraging our kids to be proud of their nation, religion, and ethnicity. We must ask them to be proud of their personal (and their own kids') achievements only, - to be proud of their love and assistance to every human being without discrimination.
For everyone who want to see brotherhood among humanity, less hatred, and less wars, - any new split between human groups will just make the fulfillment of our supreme target take more time.
Intellectual elite everywhere should starve to promote tolerance instead of finding 'common' values. They are absolutely two different paths. Wherever there are 'holy' 'common' values, - there is less tolerance, and by product, more hatred, division, and discrimination. It's true for Europe, and it's true for Indonesia too.
(The article was published in www.thejakartapost.co.id)
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