Accepting Atrocities Leads to Now
How can it be? Humanity has tolerated atrocities, crimes against humanity, censorship, wars, torture, lies/propaganda, ecocide, ethnocide, torture of Assange, etc. forever. Is it not clear that psychopaths/insane criminals rule the world?
Perhaps since this has been the case for centuries, no one notices. I see the bourgeois classes living their seemingly superficial, comfortable lives, celebrating Thanksgiving, attending sporting events, preferring to ignore geopolitics and things outside their bubbles, the poor struggling for their existence, and all living for the self.
Is it so difficult to see that who we are is Life, the animating spirit that we share with all living entities. We are in the form of human with our particular kind of consciousness, which allows us to be the only animal with the possibility of living ethically. Yet we don't. Instead we live their paradigm ("might makes right"). This has proven to be a grave error, an abomination, not using the gifts that we have been given and we are having to pay a steep price.