Power
Hate empowers only the one.
Love empowers everyone.
I’m here to tell you the fight is real.
It’s been going on for a long time and will continue on and on and on.
The fact is, we are born not caring about anyone else other than ourselves.
Kindness beyond ourselves has to be taught.
Compassion has to be practiced.
Some of us will pick up the skill and run with it.
Just like those who have natural inborn talents for running, math, art, and the gift of gab.
However, the vast majority will never know the joy of giving beyond self-gratification.
Very few have the natural talent to express love.
Face it, the human race likes sitting on the couch doing nothing.
Even if their house is on fire, they’ll let the neighbors call the fire department because…
Because they can’t be bothered with anything that interferes with their orgasm.
The majority of humanity is just that way.
Reality.
Self-centered, purposefully ignorant, non-helpful, non-volunteering, non-social beings.
The only thing that will motivate them to get ‘involved’ is what Carl Sagan said in his show Cosmos concerning ‘blockbusters’.
During WWII, the Germans dropped bombs on London, nicknamed by the English as ‘blockbusters’.
Bombs dropped from planes that would destroy a city block.
Once you had one of those bombs go off on your block, you quickly became aware of the consequences of war.
War from that moment forward would no longer be seen as a solution, but rather as a failure to communicate.
Carl Sagan pointed out that humans don’t react to a problem unless that problem directly interferes with their lives.
They actually have to have a blockbuster drop at their home to realize there is a problem.
The world, our humanity, has an issue with hate.
Hate is an affective blanket for the selfish person.
Hate gives comfort because it allows the person to believe someone else is responsible for the problems in the world, not me.
There are a lot of people around us all the time, not just on Pennsylvania Ave., who wrap themselves up in their blankets and point at other people for their failings.
They are with us all the time.
We all know that many people around us practice hate.
But what are we to do?
How do we empower the indifferent to stand for what is right?
I don’t have an answer.
I’m not the first one to not have an answer.
There are many before and many after who will recognize the problem, but have no solution as to why so many willingly refuse to hear people crying.
Those who refuse to see people starving.
Those who refuse to speak up when evil is done.
We who hear the voice of love and live what love asks us to do are like that proverbial ‘voice in the wilderness’.
We are like the dog that barks in the middle of the night, warning the sleeping people that danger approaches.
What we can do, what we have always done, is speak truth to power.
What we can do is live a life of happiness.
What we can do is have compassion for the lost.
What we can do is be the emissaries of love, greet everyone with a smile, and demonstrate that a life lived to care for everyone is far better than living for the one.
Peace
Daniel J Frey aka Toby