Listen... It is sad to say but No matter how hard we try... none of us can avoid being put into some group.
Black, White, Asian, Jew.
Man, Woman.
Straight, Gay.
Those are just the easy ones... it seems the longer I live, the more subsets I hear of and/or are added to, I guess that just comes with the gift of life.
I have never really understood why the desire to break life down to subjective groupings is so attractive.
I have to accept it ... I guess... but i can't shake the feeling that we'd be much better off if we could take the judgment out of our little groupings.
There has... as long as I can remember, been one particular bit of nonsense that gets my blood boiling and sad to say that I have heard this same nonsense come from the mouths of just about every kind of person.
I'm sure you know it... it goes like this... " I have no problem with _ _ _ _ _ _ " or " _ _ _ _ control everything"
or " _ _ _ _ _ _ just need to get over it" or " _ _ _ _ _ commit all the crime" I have unfortunately been subjected to the "logic" that is always put forth to justify these ridiculous statements. The "Statistics", observations & half truths that never stand when challenged... the problem is they are almost never challenged!
I am still astounded when a acquaintance starts in with " Oh ... you know that _ _ _ _ _ own the whole neighborhood!" Or " it's never been the same since _ _ _ _ came into the block" and somehow they expect me to nod in agreement, it is even more astounding when considering the "group" I am placed in on first sight... I mean... I would have to be some kind of very special idiot to believe that the untruths that have plagued me throughout my life, the ones that have been widely accepted as truth, the ones that have made my existence at times a true horror would be true of another... without question!
It has always left me baffled when a person that I had always thought was reasonable ... somehow gets it in his/her mind that I could somehow be a receptive audience to their statements of " no ... really they're just genetically different!"
I guess that all I am trying to say in this run on sentence is ... I guess I am lucky indeed to have met enough people to say with full confidence that most of what is said about any group is ... Bullshit!
That being said ... Politicians do lie a lot! :)
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