I woke up coz I was having an awful nightmare about a dystopian world with no end in sight.
It was too much. Too brutal violent uncivilised. Glimpses of human kindness and solidarity amidst a majority world view of ugliness
I wake up and look at my phone and it's like my nightmare can't end. I read about trump putting out Muslim bans. About people feeling it's okay to be openly racist. To believe one race or religion is superior to another. All fools. What I see is.. today it's them
Tomorrow it could be us. How would it feel if it were like that?
Blacks were discriminated against for centuries. Now Muslims. My best friend is Muslim. My helper is Muslim. How does he feel that he may not be able to travel to the us? That they will question him just because of his religion???
Blacks. Then Jews. Now Muslims
Asians at one point.
When will it be Indians?
Whites?
This world is spiraling towards its downfall. But. When Pandora box opened a butterfly of hope flew out too. Human nature has prevailed. We are both good and bad. We have insane cruelty and immeasurable genoristy residing within us. And each battles the other all through time.
Now as trump proceeds on his madness. .. others step up and step in. Maybe the world will unite against such blatant bigotry. Canada leads the way.
But.
My news feeds are biased. I only hear what like minded people think. And we are not in the majority. So that scares me..in this news filled world why am I not getting the news from the other side? Why am I blinded like this? You see maybe he too is only hearing his circle and can't hear the rest. Two safe bubbles bouncing against each other. Unable to hear the other.
That's why I get nightmares. They aren't night mares. They are reality unfolding and the imagination curling up in defence. Fears. I've not known a time like this. Only read about stuff like this.
I also feel we are all just one . And we are each responsible in small ways and large for what happens. So I feel maybe in some small way I am responsible for trump being president. For the Syrian war. For everything. That is maybe me speaking for human race as one. Collective guilt..collective responsibility.
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