Are you evil?

As I think more and more about being, thinking, and contemplating "both/and" reasoning, I couldn't help but bring into mind the ideas of imperialism. What makes a group of people believe that imposing a system is appropriate. I think of colonialism. Why is it difficult for civilized people to understand or respect the wildness and simplicity of indigenous cultures? Are you evil?

It is not that you are evil, it is that evil has hidden itself in your intentions like a stowaway on a gorgeous voyager destined for greatness.

The gorgeous voyager represents your hopes and ideas. As you sell us your intentions we are lulled into believing that we can enjoy them. The caveat is found in the rules, and how they change when your intentions lead to empowerment and our own new intentions. It is at this point when your intentions become insecure with loosing control and become vulnerable to the evil that is lurking on board. This is when the rules change, and the intentions turn into ideals thrown overboard on a safety raft drifting alongside.

We are then stifled and our creativity devalued, possibly criminalized.


Art by: Norman Rockwell