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Fear of different

Posted on by philipdodson

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As the industrialised world has blurred everything into a mass product, service, opinion and standardised almost all, we have become almost hysterically fearful of different.

Yet the thing that propelled us, from the hunter/gatherers on the plains of East Africa to settling all over this planet, and all that has happened in that 70,000-year journey as a human race, was the curiosity that drove us to be different and create new things.

Now we have settled for compliance, acceptance of one voice of the myth makers, no matter how wrong it sounds and no matter how much deep down it conflicts with our values. We accept war, racism, poverty, absurdly grotesque wealth inequality, industrialised agriculture causing unimaginable suffering to animals, the destruction of our environment and countless other seemingly obvious wrong doings.

Fear of different has paralysed the human race.

Has this 70,000-year journey been all to just do as we are told, to become a drone and trudge like zombies to our graves, just being a cog in their machine, removed and replaced with another when we are no longer fit for purpose?

The only way to break this paralysis is for all of us as individuals to do our bit, to question, to be curious and to strive to find new and different solutions to continue the evolution.

Different will keep this human race alive, not compliance. Break free, leave fear behind and be different.

We can all make a difference, none of us are too small. As the Dalai Lama said ‘if you think you are too small to make a difference try sleeping with a mosquito’.

Same action, same result

Posted on by philipdodson

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It seems as a human race we go round and round the same circles, never stopping to question what the F… we are doing.

We go around these same repeating patterns of hate, judgement, retaliation, war, violence, and then comment with surprise or condemnation when the event occurs. Well depending on what part of the world it happens in.

We listen to the voice of the media, which is run by the very people who are the cause of what is happening, and we take in the hate, the judgement and fear. That’s how they get us to accept what they do in our name.

Be curious, question and do not accept to be part of it.

We have been sold for decades this neatly package story of the good vs evil. Who decides what is ‘good’ and what is ‘evil’? Nothing is ever that black or white and it is all a matter of opinion.

In Syria, over 250,000 people have died and 12 million people have been displaced on the side of the ‘evil’. A neat word displaced that has been created by the media to anesthetise us from the reality. How about saying 12 million innocent people have had their lives totally ruined and fucked and for what?

We the 7 billion who inhabit this planet are being fed a crock of shit by the tiny elite who control us all. Stop accepting things, stop believing the good vs evil story and start believing in the human race.

The events in Brussels, Ankara (might not have heard about that one, no white Europeans involved), Paris, and the places that the so-called ‘evil’ live, only here it happens every single day, will keep repeating unless we do something different.

In 2015, The US dropped over 23,000 bombs on Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and other ‘evil’ people. What difference has it made?

Well, apart from the same people who profit from war, it has made things worse.

Same actions = same results.

It is time to stop supporting this and try some different actions.