Dis/Connection

If connection is the essential motion of spirituality, then disconnection must be the essential motion of criminality. Both are easily visible, and the growing forces of deliberate disconnection can be seen everywhere. The methods begin with the labels. A label separates, disconnects, says this is different than that and creates a boundary between. The label comes with a built-in definition of all the ways the other is not like us. Human understanding has become so dependent on language that people can be directed to disbelieve what they see with their own eyes. Politicians use a host of labels. Nationalities, race, religion, gender, any deviance from who is doing the labeling, to justify (note the word) injustices, disconnecting others from the human community. We are an evolving species, a process that accelerates as groups become more diverse and therefore more complex. When intention is toward growth, human capability is woven harmoniously. As Nobel Laureate David Bohm wrote, creativity is finding what fits. Fighting the disconnecting of family from community, father from family, student from education, country from alliances to other countries and services to their own people, are people coming together to protest. The size of the crowds is a beautiful image of connection, the assembly of so many people from every differently labeled group, together as one, in cities and towns all over the country. Assembly is often used in a spiritual context, and a unification for the higher good is apt testimony. Protesting the criminality of this separating behavior, a pageant of humanity floods the streets, unwilling to condone the shameful actions done in our name. Talk about ugly. The prideful ugliness of a sexualized female posing in front of enormous cages of human beings with less space than factory farmed animals stirs revulsion. The mix of sex and fear is the fat and sugar of propaganda. Our sense of right and wrong is nested in our sense of beauty. We see and react to the difference before we think. The recoil at ugliness is automatic. The attraction to beauty is automatic. Built in. We can trust it and we know the difference because we see it. It’s individual and nuanced. To separate, to divide, and to destroy are violations of our sense of beauty. Kindness is beautiful, an expression of connection. We can’t see the wrong happening around us if we’re asleep. Asleep we see dreams and not the reality we share with others. The fact that there are politicians that denounce being awake as negative clearly want their constituents to stay unaware of reality. The obvious destructive force at large remains unnoticed by those hypnotized by an artificial reality that explains away the destruction as necessary for an even better fantasy.

Dis/Orientation