The New Conciousness.

What is going wrong with the world we are living in. Why all this violence, this fanaticism those extremisms...?What happen to the human being loosing humanism and compassion and what is the solution?

J. Krishnamurti wrote following lines in his essay: A New Consciousness (1973)

A new consciousness and a totally new morality are necessary to bring about a radical change in the present culture and social structure. This is obvious, yet the Left and the Right and the Revolutionary seem to disregard it. Any dogma, any formula, any ideology is part of the old consciousness; they are the fabrications of thought whose activity is fragmentation - the Left, the Right, the Centre. This activity will inevitably lead to bloodshed of the Right or the Left or to totalitarianism. This is what is going on around us. One sees the necessity of social, economic, and moral change but the response is from the old consciousness, thought being the principal actor. The mess, the confusion, and the misery that human beings have got into are within the area of the old consciousness, and without changing that profoundly, every human activity - political, economic or religious - will only bring us the destruction of each other and of the earth. This is so obvious to the sane.