I cannot begin to express my appreciation to you for doing this piece. I was sickened and horrified when they cut funding for USAID. I could not believe America would really do this. I have to this day been unable to come to a comfortable place of acceptance with this. I have read articles, seen news stories and heard interviews involving the effects of these cuts. I knew it was tragic, but hearing the voices and seeing the images (burned in my memory forever, sadly) made it personal, drove it home.
You really explained the whole process - the way of thinking, the ultimate goal and the complete lack of empathy and conscience. They eased into the roll back of all public assistance at home by desensitizing us with the cuts abroad. People are people, here or across oceans. Hunger is hunger, illness is illness and suffering is suffering. This is so difficult for me to deal with, it haunts me and gnaws at my brain and heart. We are a brotherhood of man with an obligation to each brother. America is better than this. People, babies and children included, are suffering, while we have the ability to help and refuse to give it. I see no mercy for that.
I am asking this question and will probably post it a lot because I really am interested in the answer. " If a human being has no decency, no morals, no conscience, and no humanity should they still be considered a human being???
I think many of us are deeply empathetic and see the terror of this. However, when everyone is struggling to survive, and the news never stops, each minute with more and more trauma and fear, it is easy to fall back into that primative mindset of self-protection. Unfortunately, those who are most empathetic are often also the most powerless and voiceless. We feel everything so deeply that we are often crippled by it.
I don't have an answer to your question. I fear (and this is my jadedness talking) that there may be nothing more human than devolving into the primative tribalism. That said, I am also deeply hopeful (deep down, with the help of anxiety and depression meds) that the next evolution of humanity is empathy. Perhaps (I cannot stress enough how much I need this to be true) this ongoing crisis is the last dying gasp of that evolution, a growing pain as it were.
Honestly, it is the community here that reminds me that there are still genuinely good, empathetic, human people out there. That gives me hope, more than the meds ever could.
Beautifully stated. Thank you, Marie. So much of what I feel and think, you have expressed in words. Thank you for sharing, it helps as I struggle to navigate through the day to day nightmares to know others feel and think as I do. This particular issue really cuts deep.
Right now I struggle to be my best self towards all people because many of those welding such evil seem to have lost their their ability to even be human. Those having no decency, morality, conscience or humanity are but the shell of a human being. They lack heart, soul and depth of feeling - the very things that make us truly human. It is their great loss.
Thank you for reaching out and sharing. Be well and never give up hope - hope is infinite!
I cannot begin to express my appreciation to you for doing this piece. I was sickened and horrified when they cut funding for USAID. I could not believe America would really do this. I have to this day been unable to come to a comfortable place of acceptance with this. I have read articles, seen news stories and heard interviews involving the effects of these cuts. I knew it was tragic, but hearing the voices and seeing the images (burned in my memory forever, sadly) made it personal, drove it home.
You really explained the whole process - the way of thinking, the ultimate goal and the complete lack of empathy and conscience. They eased into the roll back of all public assistance at home by desensitizing us with the cuts abroad. People are people, here or across oceans. Hunger is hunger, illness is illness and suffering is suffering. This is so difficult for me to deal with, it haunts me and gnaws at my brain and heart. We are a brotherhood of man with an obligation to each brother. America is better than this. People, babies and children included, are suffering, while we have the ability to help and refuse to give it. I see no mercy for that.
I am asking this question and will probably post it a lot because I really am interested in the answer. " If a human being has no decency, no morals, no conscience, and no humanity should they still be considered a human being???
I think many of us are deeply empathetic and see the terror of this. However, when everyone is struggling to survive, and the news never stops, each minute with more and more trauma and fear, it is easy to fall back into that primative mindset of self-protection. Unfortunately, those who are most empathetic are often also the most powerless and voiceless. We feel everything so deeply that we are often crippled by it.
I don't have an answer to your question. I fear (and this is my jadedness talking) that there may be nothing more human than devolving into the primative tribalism. That said, I am also deeply hopeful (deep down, with the help of anxiety and depression meds) that the next evolution of humanity is empathy. Perhaps (I cannot stress enough how much I need this to be true) this ongoing crisis is the last dying gasp of that evolution, a growing pain as it were.
Honestly, it is the community here that reminds me that there are still genuinely good, empathetic, human people out there. That gives me hope, more than the meds ever could.
Beautifully stated. Thank you, Marie. So much of what I feel and think, you have expressed in words. Thank you for sharing, it helps as I struggle to navigate through the day to day nightmares to know others feel and think as I do. This particular issue really cuts deep.
Right now I struggle to be my best self towards all people because many of those welding such evil seem to have lost their their ability to even be human. Those having no decency, morality, conscience or humanity are but the shell of a human being. They lack heart, soul and depth of feeling - the very things that make us truly human. It is their great loss.
Thank you for reaching out and sharing. Be well and never give up hope - hope is infinite!
Right back at you. Shine on
There is absolutely no therapy to fix Trump's mental situation, even if he recognized it and was agreeable to treatment.