So much of what is wrong with the world today is caused by sectarianism. I'm convinced more and more of this every day. Opening up the Western Standard at the gym, reading it between sets, I'm reminded by how much unreasoned, blind hatred there is even in our seemingly peaceful little world here in Canada. If I am to believe and embrace all that I read in the magazine, I would believe that environmentalism is the new cult, that Christianity is under violent, unjust attack moreso than any other religion in the world, that leftists once allied with Hitler, are now allying with jihadist Muslims, and are forever evil and corrupt, that the Liberals and Greens can do nothing right.

What a bunch of crap, a bunch of shit. I'm not a leftist. Nor a rightist. All the mostly old, mostly white, mostly rich men that control the world fuck up just as much as everyone else would if they were in power. I guess that difference is who their fuckups benefit. If minorities were in power, we'd probably just pork barrel ourselves, right. The only benefit to that might be that minorities have had their fortunes paid less attention to, so we might see an even-ing out effect. But I'm convinced that the end result of corruption would be the same.

A universalist, really, a libertarian but not really. So much of our fighting --being pretentious here, our = humanity as a whole-- comes from people stubbornly [synonym for REALLY STUBBORN) believing that they --whatever group it is that they believe they belong to-- are completely incompatible with another/other group[s]. That any attempts to understand other groups result only in understanding just how evil, terrible, unsavable the other group is. That the other group is such an enormous threat to their group that they must do all in their power to remove that group.

A sort of collective individualism. That I care first about myself, and with that, I care about the tribes that I have staked a claim in. That my tribe is always right. And if we do err, it is the result of outside causes, of the actions of the other tribe. That my tribe is the only right tribe, the only tribe that should exist. That your tribe is so wholly incompatible that we cannot coexist. That yours, and not mine, have led to all that is wrong with the world.

I think.. that it is the simple lack of any attempt to understand one another, to have compassion for one another, that has led to much of what is wrong. I don't offer olive branches, because I know that you'd take the branch, ram it up the ass of my children, and then burn the branch. I don't offer olive branches, because I'm arrogant and I fervently believe that I'm right, anyways, and you should change yourself to become more like me or die.

Is socialism the answer? I look at where socialist-ish societies have seemed to flourish; Europe. In Europe we see people that don't work, relatively peaceful majorities bend over backwards to dangerous minorities view, lest they offend someone. In capitalist la-la lands, and by that I mean North America, we see people who work, (etc).

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