Topic: Aliens
Solutions all look so simple to many survivors and advocates. The real complexities, the issues that lie so much deeper, however, elude everyone.
Those issues have to do with our belief systems. We know that our emotions are often primal, yet they come from places deep within us. We are at a loss to explain why we do what we do. Keys to understanding begin arriving when we find the courage to examine the old beliefs that we took for granted as being something we should never challenge. Not in ourselves and not in others. Challenging those beliefs would, in fact, be considered total heresy to many.
That’s what the youth of my era did so much of. And that’s what brought about much change. “The Enemy Within” points that out, in fact. People who were considered anarchists stirred things up sufficiently, throughout world history, to raise the issues. Issues like racial prejudice, the rights of women and children, the right to privacy.
The respectable anarchists, when we look back in history, were not enemies. The real heroes for us did not condone violence or war. Yet their teachings sometimes created in their followers a desire to rise up and act in destructive ways, all in the name of social justice.
Whenever we step over the line, we take the low road. For the low road always invades the boundaries of others. It doesn't just hold the line nor challenge belief systems. It goes a step further. Defeating itself, ultimately, and sabotaging the higher values that are being promoted by a lot of good people. It's a fine line indeed.
