The other day a friend of mine pointed out to me, they don’t agree with anything I believe in. Yet they like me. :)… What I think is happening is cultural and generational. Also its human nature. We all, including the brown in me, only wants to believe what we believe. So it’s very hard to see the other side. A lot of my readers were angry last week because I equated their saint to their devil. However they never check the facts. They only throw back what they believe to be true. Instead of answering all the falsehoods sent to me in opinions, I just want to address the need for facts. Especially to those readers who weren’t living in the US and base their opinions on what they think or what they saw on their news of the US situation. The saint wasn’t much of a saint and making excuses for him, because you like him does not erase his deeds or lack of deeds.
It amazes me how one person caused so many to get blinded. The media does influence. Real concerned humanists lost all perspective because of the optics of the office holder. By all known metrics the suffering increased for those in need and the returns increased for those who are considered the elite, yet the perception globally is the opposite. The worlds poor and hungry died more, got bombed more and disenfranchised more, yet the memory is of good times.
I don’t want to change your position, for I know I can’t. All I am hoping is one in a million of you will think and do some research and perhaps you will see the brown side. Then we will have achieved something truly amazing. We will have changed the cultural imprint. It’s our culture which shapes our thinking. It’s our upbringing which makes us choose what we support. And pretending it’s not is also a part of our upbringing. We all feel we are impartial and see the truth. The problem is we can’t see the truth when the truth is not made available to us. if all we get access to is falsehoods, then everything we believe in, is false.
There were more drone attacks during the last administration then ever before and since. They killed more people indiscriminately than any other administration. If you were to go and ask the people in the areas in Yemen, and the middle east and Afghanistan or search and find their news, you may, may have to question your positions, but that is too much to do. It’s a lot easier to knock down the messenger when the message is unpalatable. Coincidentally this is now happening to the so called ‘devil’ worshipers, as they too don’t want to be confronted by the truth. So they too come after the brown in me, for equating their man with the one before, but at the end of the day the facts are there, if you want to go find them.
Most of us will not be around when history catches up with these people. New generations with no allegiance to either side tend to find the truth. It’s why some great leaders have their lives reassessed and then the light shines on the truth. At this stage neither side wants to admit faith was misplaced. It’s like the fights we have with our loved ones. My lovely wife has many times ended arguments with the phrase ” we will have to agree to disagree.” I hate that. The brown in me wants a resolutions. One way or the other. Unfortunately it never happens. The only solace I get is, time and history do find the truth. So when I get confronted by both sides, the brown in me finds solace, maybe wrongly, and puts his faith, ( again maybe wrongly ) in history. History may prove me correct, in the mean time let us all live in our own delusions.
Source: ItsTheBrownInMe
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