Help me to understand hatred. I want to know where it comes from. What breeds hatred, who was the first person to hate? Why is it that everyone hates someone, or at least something. Every society has it's biases, every society has its own view of who to love, who to worship and who is the enemy. White people and black people, the history of slavery of maltreatment and of hatred. Israeli's and Palestinians, they hate each other because somebody else divided up their country? What about our North American hatred of Native peoples? and their's of us. Everyone hates. Everyone feels disdain towards another group of people or culture. Homophobia is hatred, of what? the unknown? Because you may not go into the bedroom with the same intentions as somebody else? Is that relevant? Is it important? Should somebody's sex life govern your opinion of them? Who knows what goes on behind closed doors, it is the most unpredictable way to distribute your trust. Muslims, Christians and Jewish people; this confuses me. How can three religions with so much in common have so much contempt for each other? The stories are uncannily similar yet they fight. Why do they fight? Because radical religious leaders preach cases that dictate people's beliefs. Hatred is a method of control. It is an ancient human instinct that can be funneled and honed, not unlike irrigation. Directing the emotions of minions to fight battles so the people at the top don't get their fingernails broken. Every person has a story, every person has a terrible idea in their mind of somebody else, many people haven't witnessed these atrocities for themselves. So where is the line between truth and fable. Where do we distinguish between true events and a drive to separate people so they are simply easier to control. What is fact and what is a myth?
People always fight, when one society has power another wants to steal it from them. What I don't understand is how everyone can be so numbed, so ignorant that they comply with these ideas, spoon fed to perfection like ridiculous drones moving in and out of consciousness. Since when has it been all right to accept an idea as it is without questioning from whence it came. Watch your mind jump specifically to radical Islamism, shake your head in wonder as you try to understand how these people can just accept everything they are told. But how different are you? In your comfortable society that gives you everything you want to hear. The fuckups are on the other side of the planet, not here, right? You would know the difference between the truth and dictated lies if you heard them? I wouldn't be so sure.
The worst part is amidst all the chaos, the hatred and the treachery, where do we begin to rebuild? At what point must we drop our gloves and scream over the deafening sounds of war, and will we be heard? Is there anything in one little voice that could ever make people listen? The problem with the world is we've all stopped listening to everybody but ourselves.