🌈 The world is colour; beware the person selling black and white

Book of TREE 2.31

They hate what what you hold dear.
They want to destroy your way of life.
They are evil.
We are at war.
You must make a choice.

When someone is dividing the world into Us and Them, it doesn’t matter if you are Us or Them. If you are being divided, you are being conquered.

This world and the people who fill it are full of variety and beauty and nuance. It’s bubbling with colour. Choosing to go along with people and causes that flatten life into black and white binaries is a shortcut to deprivation of other meaningful choice. It denies every life, including your own, the richness of its existence. It’s a small world that only gets smaller.

Us and Them are occasionally useful temporary labels that can exist within the greater and more real All Of Us. But when you see Us and Them used to generate fear, look for the person doing the power grab. Because that’s what it’s about.

Then resolutely look for the colour. That’s where reality is.

This song is like a cup of tea and a real fire on a cold winter’s day.

Happy Tuesday
Jeff