Finally back blogging here after a month out for exams. I have recently been reading alot of scary posts about the way things are going with the new president in america, you-know-who (calling him that, as if hes not villian enough). Building walls and banning refugees, its amazing how wrong the optimistic 'oh-he'll-be-alright-ers' have been already. Anyway 'you-know-who' is the least of our worries.
There is a sneakier and worse problem at hand and it masks itself in ideologies and group thinking. Humans are social animals, some scientists say that our social abilities is what made our species survive sabretooth tiger attacks and ice ages. The forming of small communities and social groups is inherent to human behaviour but ideologies as Prof Jordan Peterson explains in the video below can be harmful. We have to remember a simple fact and this danish advert below illustrates it perfectly, We are all the same! yes we have own individuality and our ways of doing things, beliefs arnt harmful and a little bit of spirituality can go a long way (referencing religious ideology here), but we must make sure that anyone who isn't part of our group/ideology/religion doesnt become the enemy. Black/White/Indian/Christian/Gay/Straight/Rich/Poor/Old/Young/Fat/Trans/..... the list is endless, and its amazing the variation among people.
Watch the video its great!
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