The World Is A Delightful Place
"Reporting on Antifa" w/Nancy Rommelmann
The World Is A Delightful Place. I would tell the woke that the world is a delightful place. Yes, it’s also a hard place, and there are things that you won’t like. And there will be people you don’t like. But there is no such thing as a category of people you don’t like. Every single person gets up in the morning and puts on their pants one leg at a time (so to speak). Everybody has fears; everybody has love; everybody has ideas and things that they strive for. And, it is so much more pleasurable (personally pleasurable) and satisfying to get to know people and to get to understand why they think the way they do — why they do what they do. This is what makes the world so beautiful and magnificent, and it is right there. And, to say instead, “I don’t like all those people because they’re [a certain color] or they’re [a certain religion] or because I believe they’re all terrible because they supported Donald Trump or because they supported Biden.” You’re robbing yourself — you’re robbing yourself of the experience of dealing with humans and dealing with/interfacing with humanity.
And sometimes, I think that they do this because they’re scared to do this. That’s scary! Sometimes it’s scary to put yourself out and try to understand other people and walk in a world that is a little bit uncomfortable. So, I’ll stay in my little crew here and we’ll just call those people the “bad people over there.” But they’re not! Everybody is a human being, and everybody is potentially interesting. Maybe you won’t like them! But, give it a shot, and check it out, and be open to these experiences, as opposed to closing off vast swaths of the population because they fall in some category that you and your crew have decided is the “bad category” today. The world’s going to get pretty freaking tiny if you’re only going to hang out with your little, tiny crew because these are the only ones that are “okay.”
Yes! We need more of this message. Shout it from the top of the mountain.
No human being is “garbage,” and no one will improve from being shouted down or shunned because they speak an opinion one does not agree with or care for.
The world is beautiful and cannot be controlled or subjugated to one’s political leaning, not does it care for the judgements or complaints of people. Just as the moon is beautiful and constant without needing validation, life is magnificent and if a person cannot see past their own ego to realize this then it is on them, not the world.
I was a far left lefty, but mainly from an anti-corporate globalization stance and against systemic policy that harms a group based on traits they cannot possibly have a choice in (skin color, biological sex or growing up on “the wrong side of the tracks”).
I have found that white conservative men have been far more accepting of my views, as they are carefully thought out and not based on disenfranchising one group to benefit another.
Conversely, the shaming and vitriol I have experienced from the lefties or progressives I used to organize with on various environmental or political issues caused me to disengage from such efforts and such people.
I see up close how generations behind me are taught to throw shade on everything that isn’t entrenched in politicizing and celebrating victimhood, and it is obscene.
Life is beautiful, if you can get there. And that is each person’s challenge. It is not for someone else to hand it to you on a silver platter. And without obstacles and suffering and loss, nothing would have much meaning. Just a flatlining, monotonous journey to nowhere.
I pray for solar storms to knock out satellites so people have to remember how to live without all the distractions and junk that amplifies all their complaints about life. It’s so ironic/hypocritical to hear people that wax poetic about how primitive cultures lived, while simultaneously wanting to cherry pick what they want from modern culture and never actually bother to learn any of those primitive skills they speak so highly of on their social media pages.