We are each and all ignorant
There is an ancient battle between the humus and the anti-humus, the organic and the anti-organic, the human and the anti-human.
More specifically, I am engaged in the battle against the anti-humus. I am pro-human, which means pro-diversity. Much of what we do in this age, from commercializing nature to demonizing whole countries and peoples, is anti-human. We can do better. Better means a whole lot better. We can get conscious and purposeful about it.
Example: how Trump speaks of others, how we speak of Trump. There is no compassion on either side. I for one do not want to show him any compassion, any fellow-feeling. See how I miss?
Example: politics has degenerated into two camps who will not meet, let along converse. They are all good guys/bad guys to each other. We seem to be headed to a break up of the country, even the world. Yet how do we do that, since we live together? Do we have a new civil war, till we are tired of death and maiming?
Example: we have a pandemic and people oppose doing anything about slowing its spread. They evidently see it as a conspiracy against their rights, their rights to ignore their relation to their neighbors. Their responsibility to their neighbors.
We are each and all ignorant of something of our neighbors. We can open our ears and eyes and learn of them. We can open to those who are not people being our neighbors. We can develop reverence for life.
:- Doug.
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