It’s been quite a while since I’ve shared my thoughts via this blog and I apologize to any fans who miss me. Quite a few have asked me to pick up where I left off because they need a lift, but I’ve been reluctant since my “ghost writer” has had a bad year and is a little grumpy. I feared he would not share my views without hijacking my persona to advance his agenda. He has assured me he won’t. So now, a time with hardly any controversy and upheaval ;-) seems like a sane time to jump back into the mix. I will do my best to be an objective force to give some non-partisan lifts to those who care to listen.
In my short 13 years, I have never seen a more contentious, polarized and hateful state of affairs. People only hear what they want to hear all without listening. It’s as if we’ve started to apply the concept of free market capitalism to ideas and beliefs where it’s survival of the only the fittest ideas and only the beliefs of the winner is absolute. If it’s not your belief, then it’s not a belief at all. That’s not how it works people and you need to fix it now. A long time ago, this pretty wise dude said, among many other smart things, that (paraphrasing) “the meek shall inherit the earth”. Well folks, I have some obviously painful news for you. The meek have no chance in our world of ideological natural selection, and are virtually extinct. Everyone is vying to win the ideology hunger games and no one is winning. We are all losing. The only meek-ish folks left are children and people like me and my peers, and children are only meek until their parents or society completes their indoctrination into which “side” is "right", and then they are gone. That leaves me and the rest of the developmentally disabled outsiders to represent the truly meek. For all of our struggles and need for assistance and care, we are the lucky ones who weren’t born with that chip in our brains that sees prejudice, greed, ego, and hatred of others because they are different than us or their beliefs differ from ours. And because of this missing chip, we treat each other as equals who all have a common challenge. Ironically, the only people who mistreat us or make fun of us are those considered to be our intellectual superiors. Go figure.
So here’s what I propose to help the rest of you who can’t seem to break out of your ideological Matrix. Take an hour a week and volunteer with the developmentally disabled, whether it be an individual or group, familiar or unfamiliar. As screwed up as you are, we can actually learn a lot from your compassion and your knowledge but better yet, you can learn more from us about compassion, empathy and and how not to be such an asshole all the time. (I warned you in the beginning that my ghost writer and I are working on issues, so bear with us).
Yours truly,
Sammy
