Conversations With God : An Uncommon Dialogue (Book 2) by Neale Donald Walsch

Author:Neale Donald Walsch [Walsch, Neale Donald]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: himmels-engel.de
ISBN: 9781571740564
Amazon: 0340765445
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing Company
Published: 1997-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

I’ve been waiting for this. This is more of what I assumed You were promising me when You told me that Book 2 would deal with planetary issues on a global scale. So, can we begin our look at our human politics by my asking you what may seem like an elementary question?

No questions are undeserving or unworthy. Questions are like people.

Ah, good one. Okay then, let me ask: is it wrong to undertake a foreign policy based on your country’s own vested interests?

No. First, from My standpoint, nothing is "wrong.” But I understand how you use the term, so I will speak within the context of your vocabulary. I’ll use the term "wrong” to mean "that which is not serving you, given who and what you choose to be.” This is how I’ve always used the terms "right” and "wrong” with you; it is always within this context, for, in truth, there is no Right and Wrong.

So, within that context, no, it is not wrong to base foreign policy decisions on vested interest considerations. What is wrong is to pretend that you’re not doing so.

This most countries do, of course. They take action—or fail to take action—for one set of reasons, then give as a rationale another set of reasons.

Why? Why do countries do that?

Because governments know that if people understood the real reasons for most foreign policy decisions, the people would not support them.

This is true of governments everywhere. There are very few governments which do not deliberately mislead their people. Deception is part of government, for few people would choose to be governed the way they are governed— few would choose to be governed at all —unless government convinced them that its decisions were for their own good.

This is a hard convincing, for most people plainly see the foolishness in government. So government must lie to at least try to hold the people’s loyalty. Government is the perfect portrayer of the accuracy of the axiom that if you lie big enough, long enough, the lie becomes the "truth.”

People in power must never let the public know how they came to power—nor all that they’ve done and are willing to do to stay there.

Truth and politics do not and cannot mix because politics is the art of saying only what needs to be said—and saying it in just the right way—in order to achieve a desired end.

Not all politics are bad, but the art of politics is a practical art. It recognizes with great candor the psychology of most people. It simply notices that most people operate out of self-interest. So politics is the way that people of power seek to convince you that their self-interest is your own.

Governments understand self-interest. That is why governments are very good at designing

programs which give things to people.

Originally, governments had very limited functions. Their purpose was simply to “preserve and protect.” Then someone added “provide.” When governments began to be the people’s provider as well as the people’s protector, governments started creating society, rather than preserving it.

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