Hi Diane... One of the things that this pandemic *and* the current administration has exposed is how divided we really are - dare I say that there never really was any "unity" - it's always been that way... This is not necessarily a "bad" thing. We are diverse - with diverse beliefs, morals, ethics, and cultures. It's always been that way. Maybe we need to consider giving up the *illusion* of unity, especially if that requires that we all have to walk in lock step, believing the same things, and *accept* our diversity. That is - we adapt and adjust to what is - to the reality of life as it is with its diversity - and not hate each other for our diversity, trying to make others conform to the *idea* of unity...
Carl Jung once said something about the marriage of opposites resulting in pregnancy, and I think that is the unity to which I aspire: that diversity and disagreement can lead, with discussion and a willingness to compromise, to some new way of being in the world that takes a more comprehensive, compassionate, and far-reaching stance on decisions that need to be made...
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Hi Diane... One of the things that this pandemic *and* the current administration has exposed is how divided we really are - dare I say that there never really was any "unity" - it's always been that way... This is not necessarily a "bad" thing. We are diverse - with diverse beliefs, morals, ethics, and cultures. It's always been that way. Maybe we need to consider giving up the *illusion* of unity, especially if that requires that we all have to walk in lock step, believing the same things, and *accept* our diversity. That is - we adapt and adjust to what is - to the reality of life as it is with its diversity - and not hate each other for our diversity, trying to make others conform to the *idea* of unity...
Carl Jung once said something about the marriage of opposites resulting in pregnancy, and I think that is the unity to which I aspire: that diversity and disagreement can lead, with discussion and a willingness to compromise, to some new way of being in the world that takes a more comprehensive, compassionate, and far-reaching stance on decisions that need to be made...
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