You can’t change the past. You can change the future but only in the present moment, right now, this very instant. Instead, people are consumed by death. Death isn’t the problem, nor are mass murders, genocides, and whatnot. The problem is how dead we live.
All of the violence in the world, the murders, yeah, that’s horrible, so why don’t you just let it go instead of relitigating it? When you relitigate you’re pouring energy into an an outcome that already happened. You’re keeping negative energy alive in hopes of what exactly? Letting it go? Then make your peace and move forward, be more ruthless in calculating what you will and will not tolerate.
I have zero patience for willful ignorance, the uncurious types who skim along the surface because when adversity rises up, they check out. And then they continue to check out and scapegoat.
I hate scapegoaters like nothing else because they are uncurious. It’s like the greatest command is blame your neighbors. They never stop. Judaism, Islam, and Christianity grew from the same root, slightly different interpretations of the Bible, God, and spirituality. What they have in common is they obsess over murders of significant people by scapegoating and retaliating.
Here’s the thing nobody tells you about trauma of any kind: it’s stored in your DNA and transferred every other generation. The shitty feelings your grandparent felt from those who hurt them are your shitty feelings that got reinforced by your parents as you grew up. Your parents…
