Universal Love
We put on our masks, each playing his or her own role in the masquerade. Most not knowing unconsciously participates in this game of love and hate. I used to believe that economic conditions were solely responsible for our miserable condition. If we didn't have this barrier would end all our hatred, racism, sexism and unconscionable wars. We'd attain that state of "universal love" which Fuerbach had hoped for. Yet there is much more to it than that we hate, we go to wars, participate in unimaginable crimes against humanity against our own souls and conscious. And then we create monuments and world bodies to oversee our future actions. We chant "never again" and we then go about our business as usual attitude justifying torture, hunger, illiteracy, pain and collective punishment of a whole nation. Simply by shrugging our shoulders from responsibility of these crimes and saying well "they were Muslims, Jew, Hindu, Communists…
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