Sunday, May 31, 2020

Us and Them ...

At some point in its life, even the Sun grows so large that it collapses under its own weight. 

At seven billion, mankind is exploding and imploding at the same time. As we excel in science, medicine, technology; explore outer space and alien life; learn about nature and natural phenomenons;visit and marvel the unreachable corners of the earth... most humans suffer.

There are man-made wars, conflicts, injustice, hunger, disease, trafficking, exploitation, misery in every corner of the world. But still what is more baffling than the fact that we the "superior race", needs to oppress its own kind to feel empowered like a very ordinary group of hyenas, is that we give terminology to "our opinion" of these crimes against humanity and use these mindless terms to divide us

All blood that is shed is red. Pain, hunger and fear is universal. Empathy is not unique, but definitely universal to humans.

But wait. The terms...

No man of any color should die while being taken into custody.

It's not "black lives matter". It's opposite is not "Blues Lives Matter". It's not "All Lives matter" that was designed to weaken the warcry of "Black Lives Matter".

Its Wrong! Just Wrong. And that should be enough for all!!!

Because lives do not have color. Because injustice and callousness for someones life, does not wear a coveted uniform.

Just like Mourning and protests are constructed of pain, tears, anger, memories, resolve; even the public ones. Have you ever heard, someone looted a target because they lost a brother?

But why just unjustified violence, there are teams for everything. From moral bearing like 
Women's rights on their own body, rights of LGBTQ community, racism to financial decision like protecting the vulnerables of the society, the business of education and health care, the nexus of money and politics, .... oh and the biggest con humankind ever played and got played by... religion.

We are forever divided as socialist, comminitist, capitalist, feminist, republicans,democrats, gun activists, liberals, Right wingers, supermists, confederates, activists, pro immigration, anti immigration,environmentalists, hunters, animal activists, climate change deniers, flat earthers, conservationist.

The idea is to not use absolute terms of wrong and right. This way there is always a doubt on what action is warranted. A debate on topics which do not require one, allowing the unacceptable  to continue. 

It is almost impossible. No actually impossible to not adopt these terms because of the morality associated. Our love and respect for Science, nature, "our god",  our community, our opinions, our friends and family, force us to take a stand. Though the stand is pretty useless and only holds one purpose ...to make us "different" from the people who do not use associate with our terminology. It also lays burden to defend the imperfections of that group/classification. Like as a supporter of "right to bear arms" one should someone defend or ignore its fatal impact of domestic violence, mass shootings and active shooter drills at schools..

We are who we are, and others are wrong, stupid, immoral and corrupt. This is the general consenses and we are all losing to it.





1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Only thing right is that you are continuing to blog ☺️ After all Ek hi zindagi :)