Painting by Belynda Wilson Thomas
Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual. Grace Lee Boggs
What if asking questions on social media becomes against the law? What if wanting to know what is happening and why it is happening is said to be none of the citizen’s business? This might be happening in Great Britain with the riots happening over the stabbing of three British girls.
The more the truth is repressed, the more people believe they are not being told the truth, the more distrust reigns supreme, and how do we rebuild trust in our institutions once it is lost? What is being hidden, what isn’t being told, what is the hidden agenda they don’t want us to know? There is probably no hidden agenda or big conspiracy, but there is a tinder box of animosity and fear. There is nothing to see here; let the authorities deal with it, and when the authorities have dropped the ball on other issues, this won’t work.
Whether injustice is true or only perceived it has the same effect, and we don’t all see things the same. Justice has to be done, and be seen to be done, and even then everyone is not happy with the outcomes.
We are living in a time when we are told things we don’t believe, men can become women, and women can become men. Societies should get along; there isn’t a problem with mass immigration, migration, asylum seekers, and refugees. If anyone complains they are hit over the head with an “Ism”.
Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect. Walter Gropius
We don’t live in utopia, and we won’t ever live in utopia, but we do live in a great country that has fewer problems than a lot of other countries, does it make me a bad person to want to continue to live in a country with fewer problems than most countries? Is it selfish of me to want a high standard of living? Is it wrong of me to believe if countries can’t solve their problems then the people who leave those countries are bringing their problems with them?
Is it wrong to believe that in the “West” we have some things right that make our countries desirable, and we want our countries desirable for our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren? Is it wrong to believe that all ideas are not equal, all change is not good, and perfection is the enemy of the good? Is it wrong to believe, we will never all get along, we will have differing ideologies, religions, and ideas about what will make society better? Is it wrong to disagree with where our leaders want to take us? Is it wrong to believe that the elites don’t face the same challenges as the common people and that common people are bearing the brunt of changes they do not want? More people for fewer jobs is not a recipe for harmony and hope. Are we creating people who have nothing to lose, and how can we guard against this?
We are creating the future our children and grandchildren will inherit, a good society doesn’t just happen, we create it, and we will be judged by the society we create.
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. James Baldwin
I believe we can change the world if we start listening to one another again. Simple, honest, human conversation. Margaret J. Wheatley
Whatever good things we build end up building us. Jim Rohn
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