Cirina Chapar
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[!} WOULD BE POSTED ON EVERY NATION'S NOTICE BOARD, HASTILY STUCK ON.
UN-SIGNED LETTER
[The following letter would be left anonymously, the authors hand-writing purposely masked. It would be a few pages long, the pages sewn together with string.]
'An inspection of Eden's oldest plague.'
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There comes a time when "pushing" one's ideas that could save our world becomes morally the right thing to do. And so, if you have the time, I urge you to continue to read.
Our world is old, perhaps too old. Though through centuries and centuries of change, what was the one thing that stood firm? One thing that decades of social injustice have made abundantly clear? Systemic and structural racism plagues Eden. I believe this is ultimately what will undo us. The biggest issue that each of us faces with every generation, every family. Whether you are the victim or the abuser. The people of Eden are deeply segregated by race, and they always have been. Power gradients either reduce or increase the burden of evidence required to feel that an action can be 'justified' or will be supported in wider society. Living things learn predominantly via role modeling - what we see and hear programs the brain for those actions regardless of our genetic inheritance. Racism and prejudices are the exhaust fumes of damaged egos.
It's normal to want to spend time with people who have the same interests, background, culture, and language. It creates a sense of belonging that is important. The downside is that it can also set up differences between other groups and, over time, this might lead us to think that our group is better than others. Not only is this an incorrect mindset, it’s a disgusting one. To think that you are better than someone, especially a group of people who you have no idea what it is like to live a day in their shoes.
I know what I write is dangerous. That it risks my life. But one must be willing to give their life to end the injustice that so many people suffer. What is my pain compared to their own? How could I not share their experiences, their fears? If no one else will give them the platform to do
To stand up for the few against the many, what does that mean? It means caring for them and about them without anyone asking you to. Family is family. We are each other's keepers. So when you take that vow, it's for life, til death do us part. Despite skin color, despite background. I would lay down my life for any person of Eden if asked. That is how desperately I care for our people. How desperate I am for necessary change.
Social evolution is a movement that speaks to everyone at every level of affluence as equal partners. The system in play, racism, has been there for generations. Nobody alive now can be blamed for that. It didn’t come from us, it came from our ancestors who failed us. Failed our world, with their disgusting ways, ways they were set in. I don’t wish for an uproar, revolution is useless. Revolution "revolves" as our world does and takes you right back to the same mess where you started. Evolution is progress. That's the way onward, together.
Today, in our way of living, indifference has become a survival strategy. Thus, over evolutionary time, those who love will be selected against and considered weak; those who are the coldest will survive the best, willing to use others for whatever means suits their purpose - indifferent to their suffering. This is social evolution, the interplay between society and the way we evolve. For my part, I intend to do everything I can to tilt the balance toward love. Indifference is for snakes, not for us as a people.
UN-SIGNED LETTER
[The following letter would be left anonymously, the authors hand-writing purposely masked. It would be a few pages long, the pages sewn together with string.]
'An inspection of Eden's oldest plague.'
---X=X---
There comes a time when "pushing" one's ideas that could save our world becomes morally the right thing to do. And so, if you have the time, I urge you to continue to read.
Our world is old, perhaps too old. Though through centuries and centuries of change, what was the one thing that stood firm? One thing that decades of social injustice have made abundantly clear? Systemic and structural racism plagues Eden. I believe this is ultimately what will undo us. The biggest issue that each of us faces with every generation, every family. Whether you are the victim or the abuser. The people of Eden are deeply segregated by race, and they always have been. Power gradients either reduce or increase the burden of evidence required to feel that an action can be 'justified' or will be supported in wider society. Living things learn predominantly via role modeling - what we see and hear programs the brain for those actions regardless of our genetic inheritance. Racism and prejudices are the exhaust fumes of damaged egos.
It's normal to want to spend time with people who have the same interests, background, culture, and language. It creates a sense of belonging that is important. The downside is that it can also set up differences between other groups and, over time, this might lead us to think that our group is better than others. Not only is this an incorrect mindset, it’s a disgusting one. To think that you are better than someone, especially a group of people who you have no idea what it is like to live a day in their shoes.
I know what I write is dangerous. That it risks my life. But one must be willing to give their life to end the injustice that so many people suffer. What is my pain compared to their own? How could I not share their experiences, their fears? If no one else will give them the platform to do
To stand up for the few against the many, what does that mean? It means caring for them and about them without anyone asking you to. Family is family. We are each other's keepers. So when you take that vow, it's for life, til death do us part. Despite skin color, despite background. I would lay down my life for any person of Eden if asked. That is how desperately I care for our people. How desperate I am for necessary change.
Social evolution is a movement that speaks to everyone at every level of affluence as equal partners. The system in play, racism, has been there for generations. Nobody alive now can be blamed for that. It didn’t come from us, it came from our ancestors who failed us. Failed our world, with their disgusting ways, ways they were set in. I don’t wish for an uproar, revolution is useless. Revolution "revolves" as our world does and takes you right back to the same mess where you started. Evolution is progress. That's the way onward, together.
Today, in our way of living, indifference has become a survival strategy. Thus, over evolutionary time, those who love will be selected against and considered weak; those who are the coldest will survive the best, willing to use others for whatever means suits their purpose - indifferent to their suffering. This is social evolution, the interplay between society and the way we evolve. For my part, I intend to do everything I can to tilt the balance toward love. Indifference is for snakes, not for us as a people.
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