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The Golden Rule, gone with 9/11

When did hating your neighbor become the norm? Did 9/11 make it fashionable to hate? The thing about a principle is that it doesn’t change due to circumstance. These days people are more focused on each other’s differences than on what unites us. Consequently we are wasting our time and energy pointing fingers at our differences instead of uniting to help each other live better lives. We used to live by the principle of “love thy neighbor”.  Now we live by the code of “love thy neighbor if…” and the “if” list is growing faster than we have time to keep up with so it’s easier to just hate everyone. Oh sure you love all your neighbors, in fact you love everyone in your state, “it’s those damn California’s I can’t stand!”  But when driving your car around town: everyone is your mortal enemy! “Get out of my way!”  You are the only person on the road that drives correctly.  Where is your love for your neighbor? Think of all the people in the world that you hate or “dislike intently” right now.  Who are they?  Muslims? Jews? Christians? Whites? Blacks? Homosexuals? Women? Men? Why? What did they do to you to make you hate them? You probably have a long list. Do you remember what we Americans were saying immediately after 9/11? Why did they do this to us? What did we ever do to them?  Humans will never get along if they don’t stop and listen to each other.  Our existence on this planet will simply be an endless series of acts and counter actions, much like the Middle East. How can we expect to unite as a country if don’t like the people in the next state, or in the next car? Americans are regressing to child-like behavior “well, she started it!!”  If one lives life by the golden rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” one can see more clearly when government over-steps its bounds or responds inappropriately to a crisis. It is true that the corporatocracy has over-crowed us and like over-crowded rats we bite and fight one another. But sound principles such as the golden rule can help us focus on loving and helping each other to fight the way we are treated by the corporatocracy.    

Norman Rockwell Painting.

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