Oh yeah! Everyone wants to be different, wants to be noticed, everyone wants a different thing!
Everyone wants a good and long pension plan!
Everyone wants a good and lasting home!
Everyone wants a good and peaceful life!
Everyone wants to believe in his own religion!
Everyone wants to believe he is living a life of hope, a life that “could be better and will be better”.
Everyone believes in his race!
Everyone believes he is living the “good life”!.... (or what could be the “good life”)
Everyone believes in his own ideas!
So how do we come to believe in the same things?
So how do we listen to the different points of view from the media, the politicians, the different races, the pundits and public speakers?
So how do we develop a mutual “current interest”?
So how do we “just get along”?
If we believe there are different races, religions, ways of living…. How do we “just get along”?
True we are at physical war with a few. True we don’t believe that everyone wants the same thing? True that we believe in “live and let live” (except when we don’t!)
We appoint people to represent our thoughts and hope that those people have the time and brains to reduce the many different opinions and facts that continuously face us every day.
What if they don’t? ….
The mere fact that our contract can change every two or four years is too long in many people’s opinion. Is the uninformed “mob” a better choice? Is the “rule of the many” a cure? What does history say? If the students riot, does that make it right? After all, they are the many; but are they the most experienced?....
What has “the most experienced” brought us to?.....
Differences are a “natural thing”!
Racism is a “natural thing”!
Surely we “got along” mostly, all these centuries. There was a way! Then we became lawyers and began to investigate everything. But everything doesn’t have a ready made answer. Things we couldn’t answer or define, we couldn’t let go. We became suddenly of a conscious that wouldn’t “let go”. We turned our way into a constant examination. We thought everything was “understandable’. We thought we had words that could describe everything. We lacked the ability to say that we could not understand everything. That only through more study were we able to add to our understanding.
This is called the real “EDUCATION”!
Not “tools” to be memorized but the use of these “tools” to add to our experiences.
Yes! …..“Racism and Differences” are NATURAL things……
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