The age of advantage is over

    

     “Today, in an era most of whose pressing problems are global in nature, persistence in the idea that power means advantage for various segments of the human family is profoundly mistaken in theory and of no practical service to the social and economic development of the planet.

     Those who still adhere to it—and who could in earlier eras have felt confident in such adherence—now find their plans enmeshed in inexplicable frustrations and hindrances.

     In its traditional, competitive expression, power is as irrelevant to the needs of humanity’s future as would be the technologies of railway locomotion to the task of lifting space satellites into orbits around the earth.”                               

~ The Prosperity of Humankind

The entire statement is available at:

http://statements.bahai.org/95-0303.htm

Photos courtesy traveling souls Kathy Gilman and Nelson Ashberger.