One big idea is never enough to revolutionize. You don’t just fix giant socio-economic problems by changing one thing. Even if it is a big thing and a big idea to match, for change causing. People are different, this is something we know to be true and is easy to accept. Some people are nutty craze-o’s who don’t understand difference. They see that people are different and what that means to them is that some people like hamburgers and some people like hot dogs and some people have brown hair and some people are blonde. They see things like religious belief and sexual orientation as choices you can make, implying a right answer. People naturally gravitate towards what makes sense to them based on their life experiences and who they innately are. You don’t really make the choice to be Christian, you are because it makes the most sense to you, and it is your only choice. Upbringing is factored into that. Any other choice would take intense effort, and is unlikely in most cases, although, certainly not unheard of. (I’m not saying, however that I think you can choose to be gay, its more like, how you stay in the closet is the choice.) Some people say they are Christian, but are truly atheist on the inside; they just can’t admit/deal with it yet because of how it would affect their lives due to any number of potentially oppressive forces like parents and culture. They are not choosing to be Christian; they are Athiests, who lie.
You can be liberal as all get-out and still be a close-minded xenophobe.
The problem with the one idea, one change, the right way, is that it involves labeling, as everything does, but in a very intense way. This is right, this is THE idea; leaves no room for exceptions and anomalies, making them wrong for not being quite right.
I’m not offering a solution I just think it would help if people started thinking differently about what it takes to make change, why it is necessary, and why things cannot be universally true.
For instance, people talk about Catholic priests molesting children like it is something unique to Catholicism. They don’t even necessarily believe this to be true, but because it is not spoken about in depth, but people simply read headlines of “another priest molests child” without any “why” behind it and people begin to think of it as an innately Catholic issue. The real problem seems to be the power dynamic between adult and child and a lack of responsibility used to investigate the adults involved in those relationships nor monitor potentially precarious situations. It happens in families and in schools all the time, it is not surprising it happens in the Catholic Church.
There is no one right answer and our current political and media system does not innately support this, and as such it is important to remember to do the extra thinking that is not given to you in a headline.
I’m not editing this. I like it better all nuts.
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