1. On Dangers to Ageing Western Culture
Major cultural episodes seldom last more than five-hundred years. During their advanced years, many cease to be vigilant in guarding their founding principles and succumb to despotic rule. Now five-hundred years old, Modern Western Culture appears in danger of succumbing to such a fate. Enlightened, forthright and courageous action will be needed, particularly at levels of intermediate authority, to ensure that such a thing is not permitted to happen.

2. On Global Dilemmas
As Western Lifestyles have spread around the Globe, troubling side-effects have emerged. Weapons and means of pollution that have the potential to destroy the Earth’s capacity to sustain animal life have become an expanding universal threat. Cultures that resist Westernisation are being subjugated by political, financial and military means. Competition for limited resources could turn nasty.

3. On Man and Reality
In the simplicity of the primeval Universe and in the way it has evolved into today’s Reality, I see a work of genius. In Humans, which from a speck of that Reality are creating an astonishing World of their own choosing, I see an imperfect but evolving reflection of that genius. In the magnitude of the Universe, I see room for the evolution of countless such reflections.

4. Response to Callum, Question 3
Callum asks: "What need to be priorities in New Society? What can be appealed to in the average person to point him or her towards enlightenment? How might one encourage people to take good paths?"

5. The Present-Day Relevance of Siddhartha Gautama — "The Buddha"

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One Man's View - Robin A McQueen