No one who is at peace has a problem.
I don’t need to “wake them up.”
I may see disaster coming for them, but if I am sane, I can see that there is no problem now.
And if I see disaster coming, who is the one with the problem?
I’m the one with the problem.
When?
Now.
I may have the impulse to jolt them out of their peace (otherwise known as their “problemless state”) so they see the problem I see coming. I see this as kindness. I think I’m helping.
But what am I really accomplishing? I am comforting myself at the expense of their comfort.
No one would ever feel a need to deliberately inflict suffering on someone unless they were themselves suffering and trying to rid themselves of suffering.
Better to skip the middleman and address the real problem at hand: my own suffering. No need to trouble them. And when my own suffering is cleared up, what’s to stop me from celebrating their peace and joining them in it?
“But what about the looming disaster?” I might ask.
Well, let me look at it (since I’m the one with the problem):
Is it true that disaster is inevitable?
Can I absolutely know that it’s true?
How do I react - what happens - when I believe the thought that disaster is inevitable?
Who would I be without that thought?
Is it possible the opposite is true?
Do I see a reason to drop the thought and join my fellow peaceful human beings in their peace?