Matrix of Commonality

Matrix of Commonality

The key to resolving many complex conflicts all at once is not in attempting major, sweeping changes, but instead in careful analysis and arriving at small compromises that are sustainable, and agreeable to all. These can perhaps be suggested more clearly from a distance, but at last may be implemented only by persons who live within the bounds of each conflict itself. Certainly this is a very simplistic assumption, but clearly the answers to all conflicts can only be found thus, if we intend to dissuade the use of violence, coercion and robbery. 

Using the model of 77 conflicts described above we soon discover these have more in common than they contrast one another; so thus it suggests that individual people around the world share this characteristic. Also in common is the fact that close and personal problems are inevitably more difficult to find reconciliation than those seen from a distance as more abstract and impersonal may be. Every individual conflict between nations, or between persons, is a tapestry of woven threads, some fully contained within its own borders, but others that extend outside of them. 

This complexity itself may indicate or imply that the problems are unsolvable, but in a larger perspective these inter-connected strands of conflict hold important avenues into compromise and solution. Even though each cause of a conflict may be chiefly or wholly internal, often these avenues result from outside, abstract reckoning. The very fact that so much injustice, and so many conflicts are deeply rooted in past events, even sometimes ancestral in origin, lend truth to this assertion.

To presume that this chronological aspect can make an intractable conflict impossible to resolve denies the infinite aspects contained in every person. In fact I suggest that all conflicts in common share the minimization of the value and the potential of the majority affected by each conflict now existing in the world. Thus I assert this is the result of the cynicism of the minority holding wealth and power; this cynicism is not natural, but is the result of the post-traumatic stress caused by the past constraints of limited regional resources imposed by our past pre-technological civilization. It is only now that the equalizing influences of modern communications, transportation and technology all allow us the promise of reconciliation by means of Variable Universal Happiness. 

 I wish to acknowledge the terminology after Carlos Castaneda in his wonderful books relating the teachings of don Juan Matus. They gave me an understanding of many past events in my own life and they will do that for you as well.