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Imagine a New World…
The world as we humans have always known it has been cruel, unfair, dangerous, greedy, opportunistic, and otherwise difficult to survive in, let alone thrive.
Let that world die. Please let it go.
Humanity is capable of being the pinnacle of all creation on this planet. It’s time for us all to focus on, and pursue with absolute determination, a world without suffering.
A very small minority among us relish the destruction and decay. These people are carrion. They thrive on the death and suffering of others.
These gods of destruction are the wellspring of lies and slogans custom designed to incite people into base, emotional, animalistic responses.
We are doing EXACTLY what they want. Every time we forward a hateful, mean, insulting post on social “media” we feed the wolves.
There is a story intended to teach us this lesson. Here is the version I learned as a youth.
There was once a man who lived deep in the forest and one day a pack of wolves surrounded him in his dwelling. He could not fight them all so he tried to feed them so they would domesticate. This only made them more demanding and aggressive. He could not possibly sneak away. He began instead to give them less and less food, until they were too hungry to stand guard over him. One by one the…
