For anyone who reads this blog, my apologies for neglecting it these past weeks. I find the balance between crafting and blogging about the state of the world a hard balance to achieve.
I don’t have a lot of time right now either, but there’s a news story I watched this morning that has me worried and saddened beyond belief.
For anyone who pays attention to European politics, there has been a disturbing trend of anti-immigration sentiment which is fueling right wing parties to greater power…. And now in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel has told a gathering of young members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union party this weekend that multiculturalism has utterly failed.
She stated that; “We feel tied to Christian values. Those who don’t accept them don’t have a place here.” More and more accross the world, anit-Islam sentiment rises and I sit here… frothing with impotent anger at how sad and confused these people are.
Never more have I felt Terence McKenna’s words of “Culture is not your friend”. What use is holding on to values that devide us? Lines drawn on the maps in our heads. Why isn’t is glaringly obvious that we’re all people? For a hundred thousand years humans have moved all over this planet. We are a migratory species in a sense.
I’d also like to point out one the BIG PINK ELEPHANT in this issue that I never ever see talked about. Why are people moving to Europe? The US? Canada? ect? Because we make the rest of the world live in abject poverty where day to day life is really fucking hard.
So don’t sit there and tell me that multiculturalism is an utter failure. And that we need to stick with people who are more like us. Because we’re all fucking human beings, and skin color, personal spiritual beliefs, sexual orientation are all the beautiful different colors in the rainbow of humanity. And we all share this planet. And the only way we’re going to survive is when we collectively work together and GET OVER OURSELVES.
Bah, I’ve got to get to work.
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