The ethos, in use for the last 1600 years has caused us to divide and abnegate. Your with us, or against us. Good or Bad. Happy or Sad. Rich or Poor. It is an Ethos which polarizes: making our lives cheap, filling us with guilt, original-sin, hollow-happiness, obesity, chemicals.
Promise is distant: blurry and unreachable as we navigate our day through the cracked, cloudy, dark and dusty abberation of this medieval lens. Coping. Sighing, grumbling, murmuring, discontented, stressed, tired, hostile, apathetic: born with this lens in front of us, we think of it as Reality.
The catclysms of History, which we call "revolutions", are deathly word-games that have resulted in the addition of new words and sentences: replacing one term for another; one division for another; one model for another.
Through a dichotomatic lens, we will not, cannot, see unity.
*Culture is the lens through which we shape our reality.
*Culture is the lens through which we shape our reality.
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