This isn’t a negative post because I’m positive that I dislike these things and feel positively right.
- Killing innocents, particularly children.
- War. It’s the province of the pathetic and wrecks the future. How long will it take us to learn?
- Violence. We’re disgusted by war yet will run around it streets with knives, machetes, guns, and do worse.
- Rudeness. It is possible to disagree politely.
- The relationship between politics and public. First we entrench in our opinions, then we keep voting the same way, then we get the same thing. Labour voters took a hugely brave step in the last UK election and were rewarded with the world’s most obnoxious liar. But those voters were the kind of groundbreakers that we need. Willing to listen to another voice. Pity it came out of a game playing infantile silly man.
- So also politics.
- Destroying the only planet we have to keep us alive.
- Killing and harming the animal kingdom and wiping out species.
- Discrimination of all kinds, including (still) towards women. Not forgetting the dads who want to be part of their children’s lives, and other areas where men feel disenfranchised that I may not know about.
- Complaining about the weather when the world is in this state. When will we wake up?
I haven’t mentioned certain conflicts by name, but the first item covers them neatly.
I write this to make a point.
When you’re a peacemaker who believe La that human rights cover every single human, with the only exceptions being those who harm others or animals, you’re often called rude names and dismissed as naïve.
So I dislike being called naïve when I’m right. I’m not even so naïve that I believe humanity is capable of kindness ace respect at this time, but that doesn’t mean I’m wrong.
This is what I stand for. How can I consider myself to be spiritual if I don’t?
Deb xx
Deb Hawken - Amorah 