No one could make this shit up…
er…real life.
Consider…
Germany scoring 5 goals against World Cup host team Brazil in the first 30 minutes of play…
and then going on to win the game 7 – 1, in one of the most lopsided World Cup matches in history…
Oh yea and dare I not forget to mention my beloved Costa Rica team making it to the quarter finals for the first time in the nation’s history despite being in the so-called “group of death”…
Women and children from Central America (a part of the world near and dear to me) amassing on U.S. – Mexican borders, fleeing from violence and abject poverty in their own countries and encountering raw hatred from U.S. citizens…
a startling reaction from the “nation of immigrants”…
Israelis and Palestinians at each other’s throats…
again…
Iraq just about ready to implode…
Sarah Palin calling for Barack Obama’s impeachment for not agreeing with her questionable expertise on how the country should be run…
Oh yes, I could go on.
I don’t know how you feel, but it seems to me that the facts of real world events are getting stranger…
stranger than fiction even.
Business against business…
Religion against religion…
Political view against contrary view…
White against black…
Black against white…
Youth against age…
Age against youth…
Fiction against fact…
It brings me back to the words of Bertrand Russell in this old BBC interview…
In case you missed it, this is what Russell said…
Love is wise, hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other…we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don’t like. We can only live together in that way and if we are to live together and not die together we must learn the kind of charity and tolerance which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.
He said it long before the advent of the internet. So even though the concept of not being too adept at “putting up” had been around for some time, much of what Russell said could be viewed as prescient.
You know I sometimes get tired of writing in a vacuum. I’ve been at it for some time and it often seems that no one is listening to the message of this blog.
Which is the relatively simple, yet I believe important (I started to write profound, but that just didn’t feel right), message that…
we should just all get along a little better.
That we should learn to live together…
And to learn the kind of charity…
and tolerance…
that is indeed vital to the continuation of life on this planet.
Those are all bound up in fiction anyway.
Whereas people and planet are FACTS that we all must contend with.
Impact mindfulness is a concept that recognizes and promotes that…
The promotion of people and planet…
yea, that’s what this blog is all about.
Can’t you just listen a little?
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