Differences

When we encounter different our conditioning makes us want to ridicule, or block, or judge or hate.

What if we were conditioned to seek to understand and to see what connected us rather than what separates us? What if we were to accept that having a different view was simply that a view, not right or wrong, just different to ours? What if we accepted that it is all a perspective?

Different doesn’t mean less or bad, it’s just different. If we seek what connects us and if we accept all humans are part of the one life, then we can bring peace within and collectively.

Polarisation

Worldviews have become so polarised into almost complete opposites with nothing in between.

The voice of the established order and those drastically opposed.

Neither hears each other, both are extreme.

What has been lost is any ability to discuss with people of opposing views without complete judgement of the other side.

Our lives are the poorer for it.

Having one voice and no tolerance of any other is a recipe for uncompromising authoritarianism and exploitation.