Every day we read about one injustice or another, sometimes related to the actions of police and sometimes related to other abuses of power and authority by those in whose hands we have placed our governmental agencies, law-making powers and enforcement powers. This is happening around the world in apparently increasing amounts. Our sources of information, the journalists whose voices, faces and words fill our eyes, ears, and minds call for new laws, tell us why we should be afraid of this that or the other. Yet we have resources available to look at reality, to view facts and make determinations about our futures and the futures of our children and grandchildren.
The issues of the day might cause one to be totally unable to view a bright future, but all we are hearing and seeing are material facts and material solutions. For some the solution is more guns, for others, fewer guns.
We have a spiritual side to our being, a side which calls us to be kind, generous, loving, truthful, honest, sincere, creative, and innumerable other attributes that we can call upon to improve our material lives by balancing the material with the spiritual. Where are the voices of those who would have us use our spiritual attributes to improve the world? We see and hear the voices of criticism, voices of anger, frustration, hate and envy. Why do we waste our time on these? Voices of anger rage, frustration and envy do not solve problems, they do not give us hope or even just an opportunity to rationally discuss the specifics of what we need. How do hate and anger, prejudice and frustration contribute to the rational discussion? So long as we continue to have social discourse dominated by emotional pleas to rage and anger, we will remain imprisoned in the emotional prison of self interest and materialism.