Ramblemuse Touch Points

We too often seem to live in a world in which few understand the method of achieving a goal by fostering conditions in which that goal would naturally occur. Groups opposing the rate of abortions try to reduce that rate by legal force rather than by working to create conditions of education and economic means that lead to other choices, including means of avoiding pregnancy. We attempt to create security by military force but ignore the policy choices and conditions that have led to a lack of security. We miss the truth that we gain security when more people have something to lose from a lack of peace than to gain from it.

Greg Mortenson has created an exception to this pattern, going from a failed ascent of K-2 to promoting peace by building schools and creating hope in the remote mountain villages of Pakistan. If it were fiction, Three Cups of Tea would be an amazing story. As a reality, it is stronger than any words I could coin to describe it.