14/09/2025
At what point in history did we stop caring about other human beings? Has there always been people who care and people who don't? Or has it gotten worse in recent times? Why do we only care about SOME people and not about some others?
Can you see past the political ideology to the human being? Can you see past the race, the religion, the sexual persuasion, the identity, the gender, to the human being that thinks and feels and bleeds - just as you do?
I've been guilty of "waging war" against mis and disinformation (there's a difference and both are dangerous) preferring to look for the middle ground of factual evidence and truth...if that's even possible anymore.
By waging war I mean getting angry. Fighting against.
And I'm so tired of fighting so I lay down my weapons and seek to find the humanity in the person in front of me. Harder to do when that person is spouting hateful messaging, granted.
I think there will always be some fight left in me for advocacy for the marginalised, the oppressed, the little voices...but I'm trying to find better ways of fighting that don't dismiss or bypass the humanity of the person I disagree with.
And when I can't, I will walk away, because I've come to realise there's just no point in some situations.
Does the information you consume on social media, or within your friend groups or family create division and mistrust/hatred/fear of some imagined "other"? Does it make you grip your hands into fists, clench your jaw and want to hurt someone?
Then perhaps it's not serving you. Or humanity. Perhaps we can notice when our beliefs are designed to oppress and deny the rights of another to even exist and try something different.
This hatred is getting us nowhere helpful.
