Several one-time and ongoing interactions this year have caused me to ponder and consider more-so than normal the lack of our US culture to look beyond ourselves, our feelings, our interpretations of life around us. The inability within us to have any amount of true Charity to those we encounter in this life.
People will often have spurts of Charity but regress to the norm of selfish while looking to those spurts to define and justify themselves.
A William Blake quote resonates within me recently: "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern."
I don't know how to address this, I don't know how to bring it up in such a way that will cause change. I don't know how to talk about it with these people I interact with. I don't know how to change it within myself.
All I know at the moment is that I hurt deeply at a fundamental and philosophical level.
