Leslie D. Week 9 Blogpost
Beyond Neoliberalism: Spirituality in Business Ethics and Sociopoltical Systems
Although religion can teach people how to take care of people, the land, and nature with compassion, religion differs from spirituality, because spirituality builds the foundation of anti-colonial values by training the individual to self-govern themselves by being respectful towards nature and land (Gandhi, 36--37; Ritskes, 23.) If politics and economic policies ignore the self’s impact and protection of the land, then political systems and major decision makers will corrode the “bridge between the living and the dead,” especially since land symbolizes the bridge (Ritskes, 23.) After reading Eric J. Ritske’s essay “Connected: Indigenous Spirituality as Resistance in the Classroom,” I realized that the United States’ social, political, and economic systems need a revolution that places the preservation of land as a form of maintaining people’s well-being and respecting the spirits that inhabit the earth. For instance, the expansion of neoliberal economic policies and loans from the World Bank enable the destruction of environments through unregulated pollution and labor abuses of factory workers in developing countries (connected to corruption from multinational corporations.) Seizing the means of production, reminding the public masses to choose ethical consumer decisions that preserve the future of the future generations of their families, training the military to defend the Earth, and ensuring that multinational corporations practice business ethics are all forms of spiritual practices that protect the land and the connection between the living and the dead.
Question
What historical events have to happen before national militaries focus on protecting the Earth rather than destroying the Earth through warfare?
Although religion can teach people how to take care of people, the land, and nature with compassion, religion differs from spirituality, because spirituality builds the foundation of anti-colonial values by training the individual to self-govern themselves by being respectful towards nature and land (Gandhi, 36--37; Ritskes, 23.) If politics and economic policies ignore the self’s impact and protection of the land, then political systems and major decision makers will corrode the “bridge between the living and the dead,” especially since land symbolizes the bridge (Ritskes, 23.) After reading Eric J. Ritske’s essay “Connected: Indigenous Spirituality as Resistance in the Classroom,” I realized that the United States’ social, political, and economic systems need a revolution that places the preservation of land as a form of maintaining people’s well-being and respecting the spirits that inhabit the earth. For instance, the expansion of neoliberal economic policies and loans from the World Bank enable the destruction of environments through unregulated pollution and labor abuses of factory workers in developing countries (connected to corruption from multinational corporations.) Seizing the means of production, reminding the public masses to choose ethical consumer decisions that preserve the future of the future generations of their families, training the military to defend the Earth, and ensuring that multinational corporations practice business ethics are all forms of spiritual practices that protect the land and the connection between the living and the dead.
Question
What historical events have to happen before national militaries focus on protecting the Earth rather than destroying the Earth through warfare?
References
Gandhi, Mahatma. Hind swaraj, or, Indian home rule. Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, 1939.
Gandhi, Mahatma. Hind swaraj, or, Indian home rule. Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, 1939.
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