Kindness and understanding is greatly lacking and I don't know how people can obtain this consciousness on a mass scale without plugging a wet tap into someones brain and downloading it.
From what I can observe, obtaining this consciousness usually happens on an individual basis, with a combination of education and willingness to look at the world and our fellow humans in a different way. Unfortunately, a collective consciousness of violence is plugged into and downloading at phenomenol speed, through mass media, which by sheer volume threatens to overtake the masses and drown out the little voices of sanity that strain to be heard. (which is why I despair, just a little, as I said earlier.)
Through the great wars of our century, the common suffering of folks seemed to emit a collective consciousness that enabled governments to take in refugees, and help rebuild those devastated countries with the Marshall plan. The problem is, the public has a very short memory and the dynamics of our modern world continue to change. One language everyone understands for the most part is love. Words and knowledge are pure emptiness without a feeling of being connected to the rest of humanity.
I guess we have to get comfortable with paradoxes. In one sense, I can see a societal evolution of sorts towards greater social consciousness in our century. However, I can also see that extremism is alive and well (on both sides of the world) and often threatens to annihilate us all. Which will win out in the end? I watched a documentary on China recently where young Chinese university students were interviewed. They were unaware of the events of Tianemen square, less than 20 years ago. It has been effectively erased from the Chinese history books and replaced with the newest, government approved, collective consciousness (consumerism). Revisionist history at its finest. The WTBTS has no monopoly on this tactic.
Cog
ps: I have to stop solving the problem of world peace and go make dinner now!