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I would like to be able to give instructions on how to avoid being so terribly spiteful and hateful towards the rest of humanity. In truth, I can't, because I can give no guarantees that what motivates me will motivate you in the same way. I have anger towards others often in the same measure that I have compassion. I can get so, so immensely angry, yet be so forgiving. For me, it's a combination of my personal belief in where responsibility ultimately lies most (in the immediate, The State, Police, Capital, and in the more philosophical, a lack of true free will.) Everyone is suffering as it stands, for the most part. Poor people in slums. People out suffering genuine injustices, just like us. And when I see that, the importance of their genuinely awful beliefs dissipates as I remember that no one deserves to suffer in such ways. Not them, not us, and not them for not realizing how much kinder they should be towards us. To ever build a kinder reality, a certain level of compassion must be permitted and encouraged, although not at the expense of letting go of matters which must be dealt with. Compassion isn't pacifism, it isn't being content to just let things go. It's something more complicated. I know it when I see it. |