and so, in an attempt to further understand this
idea of the “quality of life” we try to focus on
what the left see’s as quality of issues…
we see in addition to just putting food on the table
and clean water and shelter, but we see quality of life
issues in education and medical care…
as someone who has dwelt with medical issues all my life,
from hearing loss to multiple surgeries, I can attest to the fact
that part of the quality of life is good health…and during my last
health issues, my medical bills ran to roughly 360,000 dollars
even with medical insurance, our part of that bill was over 70,000 dollars…
we received medical bills for a couple of years after my 3 surgeries and
a roughly 4 separate week long hospital stays…and how those immense
medical costs impacted our quality of life cannot be underestimated…
we were able to pay those bills but just barely… and what of families or
individuals who cannot afford to pay those medical bills? they are forced
to declare bankruptcy and ruin their financial life… and why? because of
unavoidable health issues… the left see’s health as a quality of life
issue and it is…we see the medical needs of people as being as important
as putting food on the table or getting clean, drinkable water or finding
shelter……
and the other quality of life issue we see is education……… one of the goal’s
of human being is to discover their possibilities, to discover their potential
and one of the major ways to discover our possibilities or potentials is by
education…but to force people to go into debt to discover their possibilities
is simply wrong… to force people to limit their quality of life to discover their
possibilities is cruel and unnecessary… we can do better and we must do better…
so we include medical care and education into the lower physiological needs of food
and water and warmth and rest… and the right does not……
the right denies that people even have the possibility of quality of life because the right
is willing to deny people the basic needs of life, food, clean water, shelter… little less the
basic fundamental needs of education and medical care…
and the right does so based on ism’s and ideologies like capitalism and religion…
but if the question of Jerusalem is to obey the word of god/religion
then the right must obey the values of Jesus in terms of loving thy neighbor or
following the 10 commandments… thou shall not lie, thou shall not kill,
thou shall not covet…whatever…
and the path of the Buddha is also the path of thou shall not covet…
for it is desire, that is part of the reason for suffering in the world
on the Buddha road to understanding… it is desire that leads us
to suffer and by not coveting, more easily can we achieve our
victory over suffering and find the path to salvation and god…
the road for Jesus and the Buddha is the same road… and the path
to a quality of life is the same path…for it is by desiring our own
wealth and our own happiness that we increase income inequality
which decreases the overall quality of life for human beings and other
life on planet earth…and we must be mindful of the quality of life
for ourselves and for other life on planet earth…….
for part of the equation of life must include an understanding
of the quality of life for all concern…
does some action of mine improve or decrease the quality of life
for people and life? that must become part of our equation for
our own personal actions and beliefs……
hence we include education and medical care in our understanding
of human needs and include education and medical care into the
bottom run of our needs… the basic and lowest level of Maslow’s
hierarchy of needs…
so make every valuation of life and every action based on some
understanding of the quality of life for yourself and/or other people…
that is one path… that there are other paths is clear…
so what path of understanding are you taking?
Kropotkin