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A silver lining?
5 years ago
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Greetings Followers
I believe I may have found the silver lining. Given the current virus situation, the social inequality, the social unrest, the massive unemployment about to hit - the world seem in flux (i.e.: change). This is the golden opportunity for each of us to examine (or reexamine) our first principles, morals, rules for interacting with others, any other term you want to use; to remake ourselves. Remake ourselves into the citizens of the society we want to live in. If a great majority of people do this, we will have the new and better society. It all starts at the bottom and works up. First principles, then the rest of reality. We can make the acceptance of Furry meld with the ideals of the American dream and evolve into the better society. By examining the positive and the negative consequences, and there are both for everything; we can use this flux time to make changes that will be long lasting. Maybe the middle path is the best. Not too heavy on the social good, and not too heavy on the individual good. Not too heavy on the tolerance of all, and not too heavy on the tolerance of nothing.
What do you think? Too idealistic? Or the challenge reality has forced upon us. Do we dare allow this opportunity to go to waste?
I hope I have planted a seed for you to care for and grow into a wonderful thought.
Timid Grizzly
I believe I may have found the silver lining. Given the current virus situation, the social inequality, the social unrest, the massive unemployment about to hit - the world seem in flux (i.e.: change). This is the golden opportunity for each of us to examine (or reexamine) our first principles, morals, rules for interacting with others, any other term you want to use; to remake ourselves. Remake ourselves into the citizens of the society we want to live in. If a great majority of people do this, we will have the new and better society. It all starts at the bottom and works up. First principles, then the rest of reality. We can make the acceptance of Furry meld with the ideals of the American dream and evolve into the better society. By examining the positive and the negative consequences, and there are both for everything; we can use this flux time to make changes that will be long lasting. Maybe the middle path is the best. Not too heavy on the social good, and not too heavy on the individual good. Not too heavy on the tolerance of all, and not too heavy on the tolerance of nothing.
What do you think? Too idealistic? Or the challenge reality has forced upon us. Do we dare allow this opportunity to go to waste?
I hope I have planted a seed for you to care for and grow into a wonderful thought.
Timid Grizzly
Even more... what if we discovered that, within each of us, there really is enough love to go around? The opposite of love isn't hate; it's fear. Hate is only a mask for fear. What if we could see past our own hate and let ourselves be afraid, and use our love, for ourselves, for each other, to move past it? That is the world I'd rather live in. I will withdraw my consent from fear and all its masks.