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Through the Looking-Glass
2021-11-10 22:02:52 (UTC)

Surface of our Society

A wing and a prayer, or the enemy
This has to stop
We have been left with intolerable ignorance, arrogance, willful blindness, bitterness, and resentment.
And I hope that we rise above the same faults and temptations.
I watched the news release a message, "There are terrible things afoot under the surface of our society, and the perpetrators are coming for you and coming for us"
And then I watched the government respond in panic and anger, saying, "There are terrible things afoot under the surface of our society, and the perpetrators are coming for you and coming for us"
Are there terrible things afoot?
Bubbling under the surface?
Is something coming for you, and for us?
Ask yourself how true that is of yourself and your own life
Have you addressed all that?
Are you concerning yourself with the dust in your enemy's eyes?
Instead of attending to the filth, that obscures your own sight?
Do we want accusation, suspicion, discord, derision, and hatred?
Or the peace and prosperity and happiness that beckons to us at this moment like never before?
Who's the enemy here?
It is the basket of deplorables?
It is the freaks and the queers?
Is it the plumbers and the carpenters and tradesmen and managers who work honestly and diligently during the day, and the soldiers who stalwartly defend the borders and protect us?
It is the artists and the visionaries whose expressions of unbridled creativity entertain and rejuvenate us and who continually offer to us an unending panoply of technological miracle?
Is it the institutions that guide and protect us that so many lived and died to erect and establish, which for all their faults have served us so well?
Do we want revenge or justice?
Do we want contempt or mercy?
Do we want war or peace?
And what are you aiming at in your heart of hearts?
I see even the best of people degenerating into the exchange of blows.
I see even the best of people identifying the enemy in our neighbours and friends.
I see even the best of people falling prey to cowardice and self-righteous anger.
It needs to stop.
I need to stop.
You need to stop.
Before it's too late.
Who is the enemy here?
The snake in your heart?
The lies on your tongue?
The arrogance of your intellect?
The cowardice of our refusal to see?
The enemy is that which divides to sow discord.
The enemy is the pride and the fear that stops us from lending a hand across the divide.
The enemy is the great and eternal adversary of mankind.
And if we demonize our people, our comrades in arms, do we not precisely call that dread spirit forth?
Have we not yet learned?
Courage, trust, truth, love, even unto your enemy, which is yourself.
May what is highest guide our vision
May what is highest open our ears
May what is highest guide our tongues
And may we reflect and recognize, fearful of the hell we could easily and carelessly create
Deliver yourself from evil
Shine a light into the corners of our dark hearts.

Einaudi (my hubby in another dimension, lol) - In a time lapse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MHsDNV9lgY




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