When humans have to exist in terrible conditions – it is clear that survival is a collective (and not an individual) activity. Therefore, physical and psychological strength must be distributed throughout the group and cannot be the exclusive property of any single person. This demonstrates that before the development of advanced human society – hardship and communality was (and remains) the basis of human evolution. The modern emphasis on individuality is a cult-like worship of a temporary (artificial) state of affluence. It is hardship that is the normal condition as this possesses the resources for every species to potentially develop given the right conditions. Affluence is the product of the intelligent use of human greed. The above video carefully navigates its way through the true story of North African slaves captured by the pre-Revolutionary French during the 18th century which became stranded upon the Isle of Sand – now termed ‘Tromelin’ Island.
However, what is collected through this greed can be lost through war, illness and natural disaster. At the moment, the Western world exists in a post-imperialist situation where its wealth is the product of hundreds of years of theft from all over the world. Modern science has given the West the advanced weaponry which currently protects this amassed wealth and guarantees the political power that naturally flows from such an accumulation. Zionist Israel, for example, being (illegally) given half of Palestine by the British, is currently striving to steal the other half with Western-supplied weaponry and political endorsement of mass murder. The Palestinian people most definitely comprehend the tenuous nature of human (collective) existence and the danger the cult of individualism represents to all genuine human endeavour.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 