INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 873 Amsterdam, July 9th, 2020 THE CORONA CONSPIRACY - Part 8: Coping with Corona: The Cautious vs. The Reckless - FRANK VISSER I think some common sense might work wonders in this general atmosphere of hysteria on the one hand and paranoia on the other. Is the cure worse than the disease, as lockdown-skeptics claim? It all depends on how the risk of the pandemic is estimated. For that we need real science to guide us. And is it misguided to fight off the virus, as alternative health medics tell us? We are not really fighting the virus, but preventing it from multiplying itself through social distancing and other measures. Or should we rather simultaneously seek for a cure, and strive to increase the general health condition of the population, so people are less susceptible to viral diseases? And, let's not forget, look more closely at what we are doing to the natural habitats of bats and other animals that are known to be reservoirs to a host of viruses. Easier said than done with the current overpopulation. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser176.html IMPORTANT IMPLICATIONS OF CHINESE HUMANISM FOR HUMANITY - China's Contribution to an Integral World View, Part Four - JOSEPH DILLARD While China has historically turned morality into an academic and intellectual study in addition to an expectation of day-to-day human relationships reinforced by the practice of Li, Mao and Deng demanded that officials demonstrate it through years of laboring among the lowest and weakest citizens. To this day in China, top officials are promoted based on their previous accomplishments at raising standards of living and solving the social problems first of towns, then cities, and then entire states. Xi Jenping, the current leader of China, is a product of this policy, which represents a full-throated embrace of the Confucian ethic at the very top rungs of Chinese government, by viewing moral education as a product of service to the lifting up of the disempowered in society. In case readers assume that these ancient and philosophically lofty ideals have no relationship to current China, one need only examine the biography of its current leader, Xi Jinping. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/dillard46.html