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When Will We Think?
We’re frustrated, but about what most of us don’t really know
The top level of media — conventional or social — is as far down as most of us go. The top level is where the majority of the collective consciousness lives, where the worry and bickering and frustration breeds animosity. Some of us go a bit deeper, exploring topics of particular interest — science, history, finance, what have you. But hardly anybody goes deep enough to realize that going deeper will never provide the answers because the answers are so blatantly obvious that even the top level isn’t up high enough to bring them into focus.
Some Americans literally hate other Americans. Have you ever stopped to think about that? What’s more, many of us hate people who could basically trade places with us if it weren’t for ridiculous demarcations like political affiliation, skin color, sexual orientation, or anything else mundane. We can hate members of what might as well be our own demographic.
So where does the anger and bitterness come from, if, when you get right down to it, the vast majority of us are basically the same? How can we be so divided? Well, there’s a small group of people who for years have been trying to tell us what the problem is, but nobody listens because the facts they’re presenting are pretty uncomfortable. Those people are enlightened…
