Monday, August 12, 2013

Cause and effect (#1655)

What we are seeing all around us is the effect of a somewhat dysfunctional society that cannot distinguish between why we are what we are as opposed what we could be if things were much better. I don't hear this from closed minded people who can only see the effects of despair and what being downtrodden can do to people. They don't realize that no one wants to be less than they are but the options life has given them have been wanting. They think that everyone should be better than what behavior they display and that when they act in ways that are disapproving to them, those others are just bad people who could have made better choices from a myriad of offerings. Not true! The people I refer to are those who only see the effect in people's behavior and not the cause. Somehow they are led to believe that noble intent only extends to their own choices and have little regard for those who have much tougher life decisions to endure. I am saddened by a class of people who can only find the wrong in people's lives without looking deeper to see what caused those wrongs. Institutionally, we can do better, but this concept is not a factor in how some people negatively view others. I can only take so much of a single perspective lacking in depth. Ignorance is not a value and those who cling to it are either in fear or are too selfish to do otherwise. Either way many of these types of people exist around us and living with them and their shortsightedness is always a challenge for me. I keep plugging away at them offering them some new ways to think but whether they even hear is me questionable. Onward ho though. 

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