Are We Pawns ?

Veterans Coalition Party of Canada

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Are we all pawns in someone else’s plans?

Is our own media and national leaders feeding the flames of angry division, force feeding us angry sound bites and video clips? Are we destroying ourselves? How? Why?

In today’s age of instant communications across the nation and around the world, I marvel at how quickly we as human beings are being divided into smaller and smaller groups, based on skin colour, culture, political ideologies, religion, sex, wealth, education, geography, social status, sexual orientation, language.

These smaller divided groups are then pitted against one another as hated enemies. Reinforced by questionable media reports, news channel experts, talking heads at televised news discussion panels, social media activist, bloggers, all becoming more extreme to gain the maximum attention of the masses. As more attention equals more money.

Then these smaller groups get subdivided once more by even smaller subsets within themselves, again with the demands, that we must be hated enemies. With the same driving force behind the motivations, money.

And it continues down the line until you stand alone, divided by hatred from all those around you. And they in return have also been isolated from all others like you and told to hate you in return.

But neither of you have money, you and your hatred are just the angry, destructive, end result left behind after those who profit from inciting divisions of others, have moved on to another topic of the week. But your anger remains.

The spark of division rests within all of us, the human temptation to point to another group and brand them as a hated enemy based solely on a difference (real or manufactured) is being masterfully exploited by others to rip society into dysfunctional fragments.

These disfunctional fragments of society become angry, they become hate filled, seeing only the hate of their enemies radiating towards them.

We, as humans are being manipulated, divided and driven to respond at our lowest primal level, without regard for those outside of our social grouping.

When we encounter a new person who doesn’t fit/follow our own hierarchical set of divisions, we then class that person as different and thus they become the enemy.

Your anger is a profitable business, fed by the media, fed by politicians, fed by those who generate money and power by keeping your attention on the next set of manufactured divisions in society.

“I believe we are all pawns to those who manufacture divisions, we are pawns to those who profit from pushing artificial or grossly inflated wedges into those divisions.” In the end, only the pawns suffer.

Here’s the but...

Pawns can take down any of the opponents pieces on the board.

A pawn can put the “King” in check mate we need to:

• Resist the temptation to become divided.
•Reach to do the greatest good for as many as possible.
• Rise to needs of others, grow your circle of friends, accept people for who they are.
•Accept that we cannot all agree on every single point in life or politics.
• Look for the points that you do share with others, especially with those whom you disagree with on a singular issue or two.
• Take a chance to view an issue from the other perspective.
• Refuse to let a singular point divide you from others who are in 99% agreement of other issues.
• UNLESS THEY ARE SHOOTING AT YOU, THEY ARE NOT YOUR ENEMY.

We are Stronger Together.

Randy