Indoctrination. The lost hour of sleep. Obesity. Homophobia. The KKK. World War II. Hate. Love. The church. All of these things have been on my mind lately and have consumed my thought process. I feel like one of the middle school kids I work with: a wandering mind, easily distracted by thoughts of problems at home or with life in general.
Problems. That is what all of these things are. Or perhaps they have problems with them. Either way, they bug me, simply put.
Is there any way to prioritize the problems of society? Certainly we cannot deal with all of them at once, can we? We are all too busy to care about racism, discrimination, sexism, and all of the things in between, right? We should only have to worry about our life and how we plan on getting from point 'a' to point 'b'. After all, the earth has only heated up .6 degrees in the last 50 years, right? That isn't even a whole degree. Why the hell should we care about it? We'll be long gone before that reaches 2 or 3 degrees.
So many things wrong. So many. Things. Wrong.
Isn't it about time that we re-member? Re - Again. Member - A part of a whole.
Take the parts of this world, the good and the bad, the successes and the problems, and re-member. Isn't it time to say that we cannot only focus one problem at one time? Isn't it time that we stop 'saying' and start 'doing'?
Out with the apathy.
Re-member: our self, our community, our prejudices, our hatred, our passions, our dreams.
Re-member the connectedness of this world.
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Hmm... I'm supposed to call you today to set up a coffee date. Definitely need to do that.
Anyway, you're absolutely right--we can't afford to focus only on healthcare, jobs, our mothers, global climate change, poverty, hunger, war, equality, earthquake victims ...the list is virtually (but thankfully not actually) endless.
Nor can any single persons afford to take on all of those responsibilities. Or even many of them. Probably not even two or three of them, if they really intend to make a significant difference. "Apathy is murder," "saying" isn't much better, and doing everything for everyone is suicide. Keeping that in mind, your emphasis on "re-member" takes on additional importance.
As a secular humanist, I have to believe in the human potential to solve all of our world's myriad of problems. As a life-long pessimist, I have to recognize that the probability of that eventual reality is slim. But it doesn't matter; we have to try. And we have to try together, each picking our few injustices to target, finding our niches, and working with developing networks of activists to cover all the issues--"the connectedness of this world."
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