| We can have two kinds of worldly environments.
In one situation we each would remain individualistic and mostly self-centered, directing our attention towards our own personal goals and needs. We would desire to get ahead of others within the ranking systems of haves and have-nots. To compete for personal status inside that ranking order of the hen pecking barnyard of co-peckers. Taking pleasure when we can boast of our upmanship - cock-a-doodle doo.
Or we can put aside our individual ego and think as a collective. To think that everyone is part of that unity of oneness, and that as a unity we make sure each part that united identity is operating as well as our part of it.
For example your body is one unit even it it is made up of many individual cells. Now the brain would want the big toe to work as well as the heart or the lungs, so that idealistically the body would be 100 percent healthy and not in want. As a governmental unity we would think that everyone in that united state of being is like the cells that make up the heart, lungs, toes, and all the other parts of the 'body' of people. (in religion it might be called the body of Christ). One for all and all for one was a concept that failed to work well because people could not get into the spirit of unity that is requried to manifest as healthy body politic. Because personal egos became like cancer cells within that body which was distructive to the 'all-ness' structure of unity.
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