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Truth > Justice > Peace
Regarding our systems and institutions, I think this focus on “systems change” (which I’ve done as well) is disingenuous without also looking very honestly at the truth that HUMAN BEINGS create and perpetuate these systems and institutions.
Until enough of us look at these hard truths and work together to transform our CULTURE — our behaviors and beliefs — I don’t see how there can be meaningful systems change. You can force change from the top down, but lasting change must involve a change within ourselves and spread at a grassroots level, affecting change in our families, communities, institutions and our societies.
Our society in the US has never truly done the hard work of allowing these wounds — these truths — to have air and sunlight, which are necessary elements for healing. We cover them up with Band-Aids, and escape from the pain in myriad ways so that we never heal at an individual let alone a cultural level.
Now we have Donald Trump and his followers, an obvious manifestation of our festering collective boils of fear and hate.
Until enough of us look at these hard truths and work together to transform our CULTURE — our behaviors and beliefs — I don’t see how there can be meaningful systems change. You can force change from the top down, but lasting change must involve a change within ourselves and spread at a grassroots level, affecting change in our families, communities, institutions and our societies.
Our society in the US has never truly done the hard work of allowing these wounds — these truths — to have air and sunlight, which are necessary elements for healing. We cover them up with Band-Aids, and escape from the pain in myriad ways so that we never heal at an individual let alone a cultural level.
Now we have Donald Trump and his followers, an obvious manifestation of our festering collective boils of fear and hate.
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