What the hell is happening to our humanity? I am and always will be entirely convinced a crucial aspect of what makes us alive is our living in communion with others like us and unlike us and the ability to act in a manner that is more supportive and useful to the group than to the individual even if that community consists of only two people (even especially if the community is two people). That differential is what sets us apart from a stone that has no relationship to the craggy hillside it finds itself on other than the fact that they both exist in the same general space. But they can do nothing for one another. The stone cannot decide to humble itself and not roll down into the grassy knoll where it will surely be more cushioned and possibly more safe from corrosive elements but instead remain with the craggy, windy, practically barren hilltop because this stone adds a beauty and uniqueness to something otherwise incomplete without its presence. This will not happen. Perhaps an earthquake (or as I heard on Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me this morning: a dreaded hurriquake) could shift the stone to a new location but this sadness would not be so severe because this is the way of things. Anyway, none of that would be sad at all. Stones and hills don't feel. And that is it exactly.
We do feel and we have a choice to live to create unity and share and cooperate and refuse to participate in anything or with anyone desiring division and selfishness and exclusion and destruction. Remain angry so you do not inadvertently allow evil but stay in love so you may intentionally create life and bring what is separate together.
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