Political Compassion

Social problems ranging from poverty, homelessness, racism, crimes involving hate and violence, to fear, stress, depression, drug abuse, and suicide, to international conflicts that lead to wars of annihilation do not originate with the individual but rather are caused by the values of the political system that a culture imposes on the lives of the individuals it governs. A society's rule of law is derived from the conscious and unconscious moral principles that the governing body and its constitution ascribe to. If we continue on the path we're on now, these social problems will become much more complex and intractable. Current world population is approximately 6.5 billion, and if it increases at the rate of 1 percent per year, it will reach approximately 100 billion people three hundred years from now, and the magnitude of suffering will increase exponentially.This book proposes that all social ills are the consequences of political oppression caused by societal political structures that produce human relationships of aggressors and victims, and that political oppression and its aggressive nature can be attributed to and results from the will to power, ego, and hate.

-- Mohanad Hadid