A frightening Borg once warned, “Resistance is futile!”

Someone just as beloved also declared that the collective has lost their credibility.

Let’s do our best to leave the shouting and all-caps dialogue out of our politics.

Instead, let’s examine the tyrant in the mirror, that fractured image not of the “other” but of “us” and our internal conflict between our rationalizing thoughts and endless desires.

It seems we are going through a kind of national identity crisis. We see it showing up in young and vulnerable individuals in numbers never seen before as a kind of mass hysteria.

(However, if you feel no connection to your inner self, or you struggle to feel empathy for others, you should seek psychological and medical help from professionals.)

On a national level we are experiencing an “identity crisis” perhaps due to shifting powers or a hunger for a righteousness.

Rather than resist the perceived tyrant, the other, the fractured self, the political enemy, I want to propose something more radical. First, Listen.

Not to me. Not to politicians.

⁹ Whoever has ears, let them hear.”

¹⁰ The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?”

¹¹ He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. ¹² Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. ¹³ This is why I speak to them in parables:

“Though seeing, they do not see;
    though hearing, they do not hear or understand.

¹⁴ In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:

“‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
    you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
¹⁵ For this people’s heart has become calloused;
    they hardly hear with their ears,
    and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
    hear with their ears,
    understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.’^[a]

¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. ¹⁷ For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2013&version=NIV

We aren’t good listeners. We would rather resist hearing, and avoid new understanding.

We have hard calloused hearts. I’m no better. I resist, I get angry, I get scared.

I can do better, and so can you. We do need to take action, but without first understanding, our resistance to realities we don’t like, may indeed be futile.

💗Wishing you Amazing Love & Peace!
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