Let's Move On

Look past abstractions (i.e. the Donald) to real people in real places in a seriously troubled world

How we live in the United States affects how others in the world live.

Politically active citizens in “rich” countries accept a serious responsibility when they vote and advocate government policies.  Politically inactive people do not escape this responsibility. 

The world is ever more interconnected.  Our actions and inactions matter across the world.  Singly, perhaps, only a few of us have a measurable effect.  But, put our actions together, see them as a whole, and you find that our actions have immeasurable effect around the world.  

Yet, so much of our attention goes to ranting and raving about personalities in American political and cultural life.  From the Kardashians to the folks of Mar-a-Lago, we waste our time (which should be precious) on yesterday’s news and today’s teeth gnashing.  Let the Donald go.  Some see him as a martyred President.  Not yet on horseback, not yet on pedestals, not yet even dead, but still for millions as much a hero to defend as for others a target to condemn.

Look elsewhere.

Millions of lives are at stake in this world.  A bit less thinking about what is in the best interest of the U.S. (which after all is unmeasurable and largely so abstract as to be largely meaningless), and more serious study about the needs of real people in a real world. 

How? By reading, thinking, talking and sharing ideas.  By becoming informed, by seeing past the fences alongside our driveways. 

We can step outside of our self-serving abstractions, and care about real things—our own future, the futures of our friends and families and the futures of all people who aspire to be human (who carry what our religious traditions have called the “divine spark”).