Unlike most organisms, modern human beings seem to be adept at leaving their fellow humans out of their awareness, except to condemn, ridicule or desecrate them. The reasons for this are many. Our leaders, the oligarchs and their media have decided that we do not have time to even use the full name of anything anymore. The British exit from the European Union, for instance is Brexit...Human beings are called J-Lo or Brangelina etc. We discuss crucial legislation in terms of bill number or worldwide "trade agreements" (which an infinitesimally small number of people ever agreed to) as mere acronyms. when we decide to short change human beings and their work by selling them short in this way, or diminish their importance for all creatures on the planet by naming things in false terms, we lead to a situation where those who don't know the lingo feel out of place. From political discussions to friends and family, we find ourselves being told, "Let's not discuss that." Instead of truly asking or caring what burdens other beings are carrying, we relegate all difficult subjects to the deafening roar of silence.
The recent shootings of innocent people by frustrated, psychopaths who have a negative self image prove repeatedly that our basic needs remain unmet. The values and beliefs that these damaged individuals have had to bear is insufferable, which tarnishes their estimation of civilization generally and the human race specifically. The final lashing out they choose to perpetrate upon the world is not caused by any logical process, it grows from their estrangement.
This is the same callous disregard for humanity that is spawned by those who shut the world out in other ways as well. The oligarch living in his penthouse apartment looking down on the masses is doing the same thing. Disrespecting their neighbors is a way of life for those who hold the resources of the planet in their hands. After all, their rhetoric validates our oppression. Their fear of us, perhaps well-founded, has led them to sequester their beliefs about us on the altar of Calvinism. The divine right of kings has never been overcome and they firmly believe that we would be worse off without them. There is a disconnect between their thinking and reality of course.
How many times have you heard of one, or another minority "breeding like rats"? How often have you heard well-meaning people, standing up for their rights being called "radical"? How many times have you heard people start out a statement by saying "I'm not a racist, but..."? How often have you heard a conversation that began "The problem is...", only to devolve into finger pointing at one group or some individual or another that is only asking the question, "Are we not human too?" The uberwealthy have a bested interest in all of us feeling separate and anything but equal.
We are seeing a situation when even the majority are forsaken for the price of fear and hate. We are living in a culture in which infants and children with legally owned hand guns kill more people than all the terrorists combined. Do we fear the impossible more than we love our children? Do we understand the costs of relegating everyone we see to the dustbin of perception as potential enemies?
Peace, love and understanding require us to care at least enough to understand that everyone we meet is worthy of their humanity. Abuse and neglect are the real threat to our culture, because they turn us one against the other in dismal ways. There is a great outcry at this time, in countries from the Arab World, to the East and from Britain to France. Across the pond here in the Americas, we see it too. Over one hundred millions of compassionate souls, lined up to seek change, but a handful of ultra wealthy media owners refuse to let us see the images of the revolution that has never been televised. Things are far more hopeful and we are far more empowered to change the problems we face than the oligarchs want you to know. more and more people are seeing, not only the problems, but the routes we need to take to solve them. It works in favor of doing nothing, becoming complicit in the great estrangement when we choose to hold our understanding and compassion inside. Caring for one another is one of the most revolutionary acts one can undertake these days. Compassionately giving what little we have to make the lives of others better is the greatest gift we can give future generations of our species.
When Donald Trump runs out of money, and I assure you it will be soon, he will not be remembered for ten minutes. When the shit really hits the fan, will we still be able to recruit Bernie Sanders to lead us out of the darkness? There are over one hundred million souls who are reaching out to change the world for the better in our nation alone, but as long as we allow the power and control, wielded by the oligarchs, to make off with even more power and control over individuals by their purchasing the representatives to Congress and the puppets they hire to the Oval Office, we will have no peace or security.
Talk to strangers.
The recent shootings of innocent people by frustrated, psychopaths who have a negative self image prove repeatedly that our basic needs remain unmet. The values and beliefs that these damaged individuals have had to bear is insufferable, which tarnishes their estimation of civilization generally and the human race specifically. The final lashing out they choose to perpetrate upon the world is not caused by any logical process, it grows from their estrangement.
This is the same callous disregard for humanity that is spawned by those who shut the world out in other ways as well. The oligarch living in his penthouse apartment looking down on the masses is doing the same thing. Disrespecting their neighbors is a way of life for those who hold the resources of the planet in their hands. After all, their rhetoric validates our oppression. Their fear of us, perhaps well-founded, has led them to sequester their beliefs about us on the altar of Calvinism. The divine right of kings has never been overcome and they firmly believe that we would be worse off without them. There is a disconnect between their thinking and reality of course.
How many times have you heard of one, or another minority "breeding like rats"? How often have you heard well-meaning people, standing up for their rights being called "radical"? How many times have you heard people start out a statement by saying "I'm not a racist, but..."? How often have you heard a conversation that began "The problem is...", only to devolve into finger pointing at one group or some individual or another that is only asking the question, "Are we not human too?" The uberwealthy have a bested interest in all of us feeling separate and anything but equal.
We are seeing a situation when even the majority are forsaken for the price of fear and hate. We are living in a culture in which infants and children with legally owned hand guns kill more people than all the terrorists combined. Do we fear the impossible more than we love our children? Do we understand the costs of relegating everyone we see to the dustbin of perception as potential enemies?
Peace, love and understanding require us to care at least enough to understand that everyone we meet is worthy of their humanity. Abuse and neglect are the real threat to our culture, because they turn us one against the other in dismal ways. There is a great outcry at this time, in countries from the Arab World, to the East and from Britain to France. Across the pond here in the Americas, we see it too. Over one hundred millions of compassionate souls, lined up to seek change, but a handful of ultra wealthy media owners refuse to let us see the images of the revolution that has never been televised. Things are far more hopeful and we are far more empowered to change the problems we face than the oligarchs want you to know. more and more people are seeing, not only the problems, but the routes we need to take to solve them. It works in favor of doing nothing, becoming complicit in the great estrangement when we choose to hold our understanding and compassion inside. Caring for one another is one of the most revolutionary acts one can undertake these days. Compassionately giving what little we have to make the lives of others better is the greatest gift we can give future generations of our species.
When Donald Trump runs out of money, and I assure you it will be soon, he will not be remembered for ten minutes. When the shit really hits the fan, will we still be able to recruit Bernie Sanders to lead us out of the darkness? There are over one hundred million souls who are reaching out to change the world for the better in our nation alone, but as long as we allow the power and control, wielded by the oligarchs, to make off with even more power and control over individuals by their purchasing the representatives to Congress and the puppets they hire to the Oval Office, we will have no peace or security.
Talk to strangers.
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