The colors of, or lack thereof, black and white are the extremes, diametrically opposed, one unto the other. They each believe their counterpart capable of overcoming, wiping out their own existence, to the extent of opposing the very existence of the other. They each believe themselves a pure form of being, therefore right in their existence. Each being right, the opposition must be utterly wrong, removed as an option of choice, removed from the sight of all who believe themselves to truly see.
Yet between them there exists millions or possibly billions of shades of grey. The ratio of shades of grey; to the binary accounting of the extremes is innumerable, unquantifiable. The two account for not but individual specks of dust blowing about in the wind, filled with billions of particles to be filtered out. They account for but two.
How utterly foolish of us to think ourselves so enlightened, while on a daily basis viewing our world, its many events, and even one and other as black or white, as if the marinade of shades of grey are nonexistent. The extremes are but a fraction of a fraction of possible truths. Yet we feel compelled to choose from the most unforgiving perceptions of reality. We mentally sift through millions of possibilities, to find one of the two. Are we so enlightened we need all things to be that simple?
As separate societies and cultures, each believing our thinking, our values, our beliefs are unique and true, all others being false, we must condemn, deny, and combat with violence if necessary, the very possibility that some other way may also be true, acceptable, and possible, such must be eliminated. There can be no other truths if there is only black or white. We cause death and chaos, defend our positions, our destructive behavior, more out of vanity than we dare to admit. We do not see that it is our pride, pride in our intellect, so deep and unyielding, that it is better to cause harm, even attempt to eliminate the black or the white, that we fail to see, the multitudes of truth, depend upon the existence of them both.
We fail to see.
We fail to see that we collectively view the world through the same lenses, black or white, as if we are not so different after all. As a whole, mankind is but in the infancy of enlightenment. For we seem incapable of understanding that to all things we experience, there exists many truths in the shades of grey between the two absolutes.
Without one, neither does the other exist. We are left with a singularity, no truths, no beliefs, nothing to stand for, no reason to exist. But exist none the less shall we, without the joy of simple choice. We seem inescapably incapable of understanding, to eliminate any and all opposition, we leave ourselves with a now meaningless position.
I do not understand why people can't protest war without taking sides. The only innocents in all of this are the children. Every adult, on both sides, no matter when or where in time or place, could have done more to prevent it. Both sides are right on some points, and wrong on others, shades of grey. None the less, the children on both sides are the only innocents, as they had zero control over events, either before or after the violence commenced.
From the mouths of babes may come words of wisdom. Ask the children what truth they see. Their minds be not cluttered with facts and data, positions of interest, nor political ideals. They still see the grey. They still see the many truths between the absolutes. While they cannot put their finger on it, verbalize it clearly, they will tell who is to blame, all those who did not stop it.
To take one side, either black or white;
So, you claim it is the Muslims. This position must assume a lack of facts presented; not spoken to uphold what you have chosen to believe. This same statement can be applied to the opposite and be just as true.
As in the case of Muslims it is granted, those who misbehaved number in the 10s of thousands. That's a problem. Yet there are 1.9 billion followers of Islam in the world. This is a number which is quite honestly beyond the human mind’s capability of envisioning, yet alone truly comprehending. We cannot even count this, one number at a time, lest 60 years we spend, wasting all that time.
Just as Nazis condemn all Jews for the greed and crimes of a faction of few, so do those condemn all Muslims for the acts of but a percentage of them. The extreme must be taken as the only truth if one is to be correct in their assumption.
If ALL Muslims were as some would have others believe, Israel would not exist with but 4 per 100 in that part of the world. It must be that most Jews and Muslims actually work in partnership. They rail against Hamas, not Muslims. But MSM never tells us about that. They were sure to show us images and video of those dancing in the street. They did not show us the multitudes who were not.
Those in power require that we only see the black, or the white. For if we ever see the greys between, we may discover the truth which hides within.
We outnumber them tens of thousands to one. “And if they ever figure that out, there goes our way of life.” Hopper - A Bug’s Life
BK Mac
Followed you on x as well. Were you in the Marine Corps? My dad was Brigadier Gen before he retired. 3 years Vietnam..
Everyone should give this a read, it's absolutely true and makes a lot of sense. Sadly for many people nuance is dead, as is reason and logic...