So we’re born as pure innocent children–blank slates with eager minds and sparkling eyes, filled with wonder and astonishment (if we’re lucky). Then we go to school and make friends. We don’t care what race, religion or whatever our friends are; too young to know anything, but smarter than any adult where it counts most.

We get a little older and the separation begins–the division, partition, divergence forked into endless segregative paths. The black kids hand separate from the white kids; geeks divorced from jocks and so forth. A little older and we are driven further apart by religion, more distance by race, body size (fat, skinny, ugly, weird, hot, fine, etc.) and then . . . we grow up. We learn to drive a thousand more asphyxiating wedges between us based on class, sexual preference, who your family is, how much money you have–by the time we’re into our early twenties we become “mature” separatists conforming our lives to every ridiculous form of separatist identification possible.

Toss politics in the mix and you have modern society–a strangled blood-knot of hatred where humans divide themselves in every possible way.

I went bowling with a large group from work. I arrived early–myself and another started our lane, filling in names and getting a ball. Within thirty minutes, I looked up and all white people were in two lanes–one Vietnamese girl asked me if she could be in my group (I suppose she felt more “white” than black). All the black people played together . . . separate from the whites. I could barely believe my eyes and it ruined my fun time. How sad it was. All adults who all knew each other . . . disunited by skin color.

Animals are smarter than people. Throw a thousand dogs in a room and what happens? Do the brown dogs form a group segregated from the gray dogs? Spotted dogs forming a gang? Remaining mixes lost in despair? It’s as dumb as humans dividing among hair color/thickness. Imagine a human saying, “I don’t associate with brown haired people, they are untrustworthy.”

Want an accurate microcosm of human society? Toss a thousand prisoners in a huge cell. What happens? We already know. We divide ourselves first by race, then by religion, by sexual preference and on and on. You would think, in 2009 with powerful technology and the wisdom of history, all these idiotic divisions would be a well forgotten memory–but racism is alive and well. You may say, “Well you’re talking about criminals, what do they know? They are scum.”

I hate to tell you 99% of the criminals are NOT in jail, they are free; in your family, your friends, your coworkers, your neighbors. I’d say the prison model is an explicitly accurate reflection of truth in society.

We should celebrate being alive, being human beings–not what color our skin is, where we are from, our religion or lack thereof and everything else. I don’t celebrate my “whiteness” or my “Americanism” (though I do understand I’m not a minority and can’t pretend to know how some feel)–I’m just a human being from Earth just like everyone else. Let us rid the world of separatism and become the intelligent beings we’re supposed to be. And don’t let me get started on war. All war is stupid and childish. I support no war unless purely defensive . . . period. Also, I reject the entire notion of political ideology–liberal, conservative–just more ways to divide us. All political beliefs are flawed. Wake up and see the truth.

ALL RELIGIONS, RACES, CREEDS, GENDER, POLITICS, SEXUAL PREFERENCE, GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION–ALL PEOPLE ARE WELCOME HERE ON MY BLOG AND ALWAYS WILL BE.

I can’t believe I feel like I need to say this, but it’s how I feel.