The celebration of power for the sake of power - breaks apart what we know about humanity. The White Supremacy Movement which threatens to destroy human society is simply and yet gravely, a celebration of self satisfaction for those who have been unable to find any worth in themselves or their lives.
A long time ago I read Martin Buber's "I and Thou" in which he said something like - those who cannot find any meaning in their lives have chosen hate as a way out.
Unable to turn the political system into one of justice, compassion or fairness. They chose to focus on who was to blame among the different interests who were supported by the current class system.
Who are the privileged and what are the exercises and habits that return the focus on who or what is the final cause? Whatever that might be, we (being humans as a group) choose "the other" to blame, to vent all our fears and frustrations onto the margin and marginalized.
We blame those who have the least power in a society. In a frenzy of accusations, arguments and killing, we vent until we are exhausted.
Institutions are built to destroy them - the children of Indigenous people because we think they should be like us, the murderers of children, and we call it education.
We educate the marginalized because we are unable to educate ourselves.
The social system creates trumped up charges to enable rulers to kill others.
We take power away from people so that we can build narratives of race, gender, class, religion and a carefully proscribed economy full of confusing terms and rules.
Since the end of WWII a new class system has very successfully obfuscated social order by the economy. This economy has no human voice. It has a spread sheet or something, called the Gross Domestic Product. The highest numbers on a stock exchange that can be published by interests who need this.
Now justice, law, politics and religion - our human creations to monitor the well-being of our world, can simply ignore the health and well-being in our provinces and count the money.
This has produced new enemies. Socialism, compassion, open conversation, nutrition, education and leadership.
When we are led to believe we are isolated units competing for the most of what each of us wants. We are told we don't need civil society while giving the responsibility to care, to those who have no political power, while those who are given power can behave like toddlers of an aristocracy we currently call "influencers".
Every five years the world becomes more violent, shallow and morally corrupt. Because the marginalized and their unmarked graves speak volumes to the human heart and mind. But we must do the work of re-installing humanity into our consciousness, after centuries of progressive propaganda and indoctrination which worships power for the sake of power.
It's no accident that what we call strongmen are the products of a social disorder - raised and educated to feel contempt for their own humanity. Grief, sadness, regret are channelled into the dark hole of shame.
So we the people must find a way to comfort the bullied and the battered to the extent we can speak of what we really feel. We are more than job descriptions, executives and customers. We have the power to listen to another's pain, to affirm their right to be who they are, who they were born to be, someone deeper than their skin or gender, more fragile than a truck or bank account.
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