Saturday, January 4, 2014

Protecting our compassion and curiosity (#1800)

Instead of celebrating our natural instincts to be compassionate and open up horizons for our curiosity, we are instead forced to protect what paradigms we have already established. There are those on the right who see humanity as cattle more than they see humanity as genius. The people who view the rest of us as similar to property, like to think that they are special and privileged due to some unseen and immeasurable calculus. Mostly it is their egos run amok while logic is allowed but only what they can squeeze out of it as it benefits them. Instead of furthering our capabilities on a scale that includes all of us, like universal education, health care and job opportunities, we are instead fighting against forces who would rather return to the ancient thinking that enslavement, regardless of form, is preferable to community. For a species like us for any one to presume to dictate inequality over equality is a form of narcissism that exults conceit above all else. We don't need illusory ulterior motive and or mental illness to be our template for a society, we need smart intelligent compassionate beings who know that the discovery in this existence has only just begun. We are at a tipping point in our society here in America and in the world generally, where in the next few years could well signal the direction our species comports to for the next few generations. I am well settled in my soul that we need to address our needs as a society based upon compassion and curiosity and not solely on myth/superstition and economic ethics. We are more than what we do to exist, yet we cannot discover the more until we are all allowed the entry into society with integrity and honor.

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