To be happy, when everyone is miserable, is an inherently generous act, both to oneself and to others.
In my own little imaginative mind, I tend to look to Central Asia for the authentic Old School spirituality. To Tibet and its monasteries and caves. To the ‘stans and their Sufi saints.
But us, we have little connection to all of this. Idries Shah has written some useful stuff. He was an Afghani. And everything Tarthang Tulku (The Saint or Incarnation of a Master of Tarthang monastery) has written has been fantastic. Useful to me at least, although I continue to have my doubts about the people responsible for teaching and spreading it.
But I think for most of us, in this materialistic–and I mainly mean the philosophical aspect, although of course the consumeristic aspect is omnipresent–age, simply living each day with respect for, and a connection with, the life that springs out of us at every moment, is perhaps the single most useful, and revolutionary act, we can commit or offer.
If you can feel the life in you, and feel the life in a tree, then you are getting close, I think, to what is possible now, in this ThoughtSphere, in this Collective Unconscious.
And in the same sense that meditation consists in finding, identifying, and focusing and expanding something good, so too as nations and people we need to find the goodness within us, focus on it, build it, expand it, and see where it leads.
There is really no good path to a good future being guided by morally blind sociopaths, which is what we would get with a world government, at least at this point in our moral evolution. The people need to lead the way, and the task of our leaders is to keep the path open.