After decades, or centuries, depending on how we perceive history, we have hundreds of different cultures, more races that we can catalogue and an untold number of religions all claiming loftiness over others. Is it, then, odd that we don’t like one another? Probably so. Odd is as odd does. I know, right out of Forrest Gump. No, it is actually Forrest who mimicked a saying as old as humanity. Incidentally, I love chocolates!
Perception is another odd fact of life. What is perception based on? That also indicates thousands of possibilities as foundational principles should not be based on vagaries. The foundation of civilization is, “civil.” Follow me here as I am not really smart enough to put this together in a cohesive primer. Civil is foundational and civil merely means getting along with one another. There, I made it as simple as my low IQ can. IQ, in my case means: It’s Quiet. Just so you know.
Quiet introspection (QI, IQ backwards), or consideration is the foundational aspect of civility. Not war, not killing, not beating the crap out of a person you don’t like. What happened to “Quiet?” You know, just shut the hell up and think for once! And, while you’re quietly thinking, what will benefit human kind rather than excoriate or set ablaze a race, culture or society? I said I was simple and I meant it. Unfortunately, when a person takes public office they suddenly think themselves superior to those who put them into office and then beats the crap out of those who elected he or her. Cruelty is public office gone awry.
I am going to leave this right here and continue on later. I won’t leave you hanging but it is better to introduce a thing than to type until you’ve lost track of what it was you were trying to say in the first place. It is about us and that is never easy to write about without beating the crap out of one person or another. In fact, this is what being human is in reality.
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