Thanks for your comment, John! I love how you highlight that any society has a mix of yin and yang--like liberal and conservative values, and that this is actually helpful to our societies! I totally agree that we're being pushed and prodded into viewing the world as a zero-sum game, in which there has to be a loser. This, I think, is simple-minded thinking. My point though, is that meditation helps to build the kind of brain that helps to break through this kind of thinking. I don't think we can change how we operate at a societal level until we change how we think at the individual level, and I think meditation can play a key role in this.