RACISM A CURE OR CAUSE

RACISM

The practice of dividing our society through the rage and the noise of racism has created an environment of distrust, dislike and downright hatred.  No good can evolve from that environment, there is no good inherent included in it.  There is no method of mutual effort that can exist between any individuals or groups who believe they will be mistreated.  The beliefs that are generated through the clinging of past histories, factual or not, do not allow for the hope that mutual good can be achieved.  As long as groups continue to dwell and cling to negative and historical grievances, instead of the goals of agreement, discord and its counter-productive results will continue.  I am always cheered by the interactions of young children as the play together, free from the indoctrinations that affect the adult populations.  It is a beautiful thing to see the rainbow of colors, and nationalities forming friendships and actually enjoying one another’s company.  I find it so sad when those individuals living off the promotion of distrust, dislike, and implied discrimination refuse to find avenues to reach the mutual goal of successful lives for all.  A great dis-service to the next generations is being perpetuated by those who permeate young minds with the cancerous beliefs of no hope because of their color, or ethnicity.  Those who indoctrinate the young with the sickness of hatred are in fact criminals, committing a crime not just against their own group but against the whole of humanity.  How much better it would be if the goals were focused on acquiring better lives and futures rather than blaming some proposed enemy for their plight.

The dividers using race are expanding this into a clash between minority groups and the law enforcement community using the numbers game exclusive of percentage.  By denigrating the police they are hurting their communities.  The aberrant factions, in those communities, are allowed to flourish in a safe zone of political correctness.  This also has a detrimental effect on the economic and quality of life components within those communities. When businesses that normally cater to local populations are not safe to function, they don’t exist.  When these businesses no longer exist within the community it costs jobs within the community and it increases the cost of living and the quality of life.  I don’t believe that any normal person would be happy to have drug dealers and criminals setting up shop outside the doorways of their homes.  What is the quality of life for those who fear for their safety on a daily basis, who have been taught to believe they have no hope, have been taught not to trust the police who are supposed to protect them?  How do you get quality education, with no tax money to support the schools?  No quality teachers because they actually fear the students, and the odds of the students attending classes in at best minimal.   The real problems in these communities need to be addressed with a positive solution seeking approach.  Blaming a thousand yesterdays will not provide one viable productive change.

THE COST OF DIVISEIVENESS

I think our country is experiencing one of the most critical periods in its history since the Civil War.  Our country has experienced and has grown out of the hot foundries of disagreement but most generally it has involved separation of our populace by one or two subjects.  Not so today.  Our country and our society is being torn apart by the fragmentation caused by the rule of minority* thought and purpose.  (* groups of sync-think)

Through the megaphone of social media, entertainment, and political agenda we are being changed from the one strong nation woven as a strong rope, into a weak and vulnerable handful of individual threads.  We are no longer standing alongside our fellow citizens we are now excluding those who do not think, look or act in accordance with our choices of right and wrong, good and bad, beneficial and evil.  Somewhere along the line of time some of those in our society have chosen to pick and choose what part of our historical norms and mores should be passed on to those who will inherit the residual of what we once were.  We have been bombarded by factions striving for a hearing for acceptance of their particular activity or proclivity by the rest of us.  Right and wrong are being compressed, by each small group, into small boxes of acceptance rather than looking for a way to allow people to live and let live.

Patriotism, religion, family, law enforcement, military, international protectionism, traditional marriage, capitalism, fidelity, honesty, and the differentiation of the sexes are a few of the societal systems under the attack.  Some are pursuing their goals with a single voice and some find ways to yell out their demands within a larger alliance of groups.  The power of collective dissatisfaction is now able to be voiced in the language of political correctness, a tool being effectively used to silence any form of discussion.  One of the most important books in my life is “As a man thinketh”.  The premise is simply that we are each what we believe at our core.  Unfortunately our national society is no longer united which has resulted in a nation that no longer defines its greater purpose on our planet through agreement.  What the people think is no longer predicated on the “we” but the “me”.  Where we once prized difference of opinion, as a tool of growth and invention, our ingenuity is now stifled by political correctness.  The fact of the matter is this: The control of our future as a country lies in the hands of those shaping the belief systems of our children.  Those educating these young minds have an obligation to teach the facts, teach the ability to choose direction through discernment not through ideology and indoctrination.

The current state of our divided beliefs has resulted in an election process that is no longer for the good of all of us in our country but is not focused on those groups of “sync-think” that will help one or another get elected to office.  Elections are no longer about service to the whole but rather the benefits to the individuals as a means to obtaining votes.  In effect this is sort of a bribe system.  This has weakened our country economically, militarily, educationally, and morally.   Most certainly our interactions with one another individually and collectively have been damaged. 

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS CHANGING OUR SOCIETY

A NEW SOCIETY?  

Sometimes it’s difficult to get this old mind to wrap around how our society is being shaped by attitudes, regulations, hearsay, and particularly by what is called “political correctness”.  Our speech and our actions are no longer honest, but are instead governed by the loud noise of condemnation.  It’s kind of looking at a movie about the clique’s of school adolescents setting up rules of who to include and who to shun or abuse.  We can no longer determine what a person really thinks by their actions.   The individual’s need of acceptance is an important trait of our species and in our quest for acceptance we are like the chameleon, changing our speech and our actions to match someone else’s criteria.  The fear of rejection, the need to be right, causes most of us to put forth the persona required for acceptance by the herd.  We, in fact, are put in the position of lying about who we really are.

The use of “political correctness” as a societal tool of change, herding the majority into like-mindedness, seems to too be changing the mores, values, and ethics of our people.  We can see the effect of this method of group indoctrination in the growth of discontent throughout our society.  Changes in society are no longer many decades long but are now taking place with-in much shorter time spans.  The use of “political correctness” by educational facilities, media outlets, and social networking has allowed small groups to spread their sync-think much more rapidly than at any time throughout the history of mankind.  We no longer have the help of time to prove the validity of the changes being promoted or the unintended consequence that might be a part of those changes.  The pendulum is moving to rapidly to inspect, what we are doing, and the inherent consequence.  We can no longer determine if the voice crying wolf is real or false. 

Do we want a nation standing on the sand of lies or do we want one growing out of the bedrock of truth.