Sport, Politics, Big Numbers, Ruling and Service

As usual I don't know what other stuff might be but I'll just
throw it in there in case it comes up.

So first big numbers.  Now I'll just throw a few out there,
but of course billion is big, million is big, and 5 can be big.
You know sometimes you can feel bowled over by 1.

Now 7 or 8 billion is of course a big number, and it is hard
to imagine, but there are 7 billion people on earth and that
is hard to take in.  It is very hard to imagine what all those
people are doing, and it's even harder really to imagine
them all doing it at the same time, nevertheless that is the
way it is.   Of course you might wish to look at it anyway
you want but, that is what is going on, on our curious little
globe.

So, you will see that sport is very popular throughout the
world, physical education, and playing with one ball or
puck and when you play the game it's all about the one
ball, which makes sense and this very sensible idea of a
game, throwing and hitting the one ball, or grabbing and
running with that ball, or however it goes.  The one ball,
and the one guy with that one ball somehow will achieve
the victory.

Some how this idea of sport has been maintained and
encouraged greatly in our political thinking and life and
the sense of one ball, and one person who has that ball
achieving the victory.

The idea that we can achieve some victory together may
be a bit hard for us to imagine or visualize how somehow
that the game can be played in some kind of co-operative
or collective way, and that the victory might be somehow
a collective victory is hard to imagine.

It seems to me that this collective nature of our environment
is really important to consider and how co-operation can
be achieved and how success can be achieved collectively
is quite important to accomplish some of the very difficult
problems and issues that we face now.  It comes down to
this simple idea.  Can a group achieve a success that the
individual might find extremely hard or impossible to
achieve, and how the group can collectively deal with that
success.

Now there is an interesting notion to be considered here,
which is the notion about ruling or service.  The idea
is that if you have a lot of people these people have to
be managed or controlled.   Now I think the more important
idea is that people need education first.  And if everyone
can see clearly  possess the skills necessary to achieve
good collective results, then controlling becomes less of
an issue.  Key to this all is the idea of service which becomes
very important to this whole conversation and concept and
the role this plays in our interactions and behaviors.  And
it is not a static but evolving notion.  As we experience this
the horizon expands.

Simply this requires some effort to consider, but it seems
this issue is at the heart of the concepts that have
repeated themselves throughout this blog.