RACISM
As we approach touchy subjects such as racism, we must understand that they are touchy because it is a topic of which the subjects have no control over certain aspects, ie. Physical appearances common among certain genotypes. When it comes right down to it, we are all of the same species, but some have spots, some have stripes. With that said, it is impossible to get away from the fact that some people ARE physically different: skin tone, ocular shapes, shapes & sizes of noses, amount/color/shape of hair and even smell (varies even among races depending upon traditional diets & regions that have different bacterial influences on the body, and thus, the body puts off different odors. For example, certain anglo groups, when exposed to synthetic food products, smell like sour milk, which is why some poor people stink in a particular, identifiable way.). Also just as impossible to avoid is the fact that the human brain has evolved to be fantastic at noticing differences and similarities and making categorical associations. We have as mammals also evolved particular abilities to identify human faces, so that babies can quickly identify mothers. These two evolutionary adaptations, when joined together in the human experience, will inevitably result in seeing different physical characteristics among each other. This is exemplified in psychological experiments (and your own children, if you have any) where children are obviously noticing ‘racial’ differences in each other. At this point, the child noticing these racial differences, really has no particular associations with those differences, simply that they are different from ‘me’. It is how we are raised and the associations we are taught about those differences that we begin to see ‘racism’ surface as a concept. Therefore, I believe that the loaded term ‘racism’ as we see it used commonly today, is not inherently discriminatory, since it was originated simply as a categorical label, but it has become so loaded by all the negativity people have come to use when describing races other than their own. This, of course, evolved as a defensive trait during the times of hunter/gather days for tribal protectionism and survival, but has now gone the way of the appendix on the large intestine: it’s still there, but it doesn’t do anything good anymore, and it can definitely kill you if it explodes.
So racism is something that is in our nature, but it is the continued associations we make with it that need to be changed, since differences need not be viewed as negatives, but rather at least neutral if not positives. For anecdotal example, I have never seen an ugly mixed-race kid, and they are often healthier than their parents. This is another one of the tricky evolutionary things, where creating diversity within the gene pool is preferred, so one must go outside your ‘race’ to get new genes in the mix. This can account for men being attracted to whatever woman they can’t have, whether that is a married man looking for strange, or a man attracted across races when it is culturally taboo for him. This instinct to increase the gene pool by spreading your seeds is not only a masculine thing, since women are hormonally programmed to no longer be attracted to the father of their children (this is true, look it up.).
, and many of his earlier books). So when I say I don’t believe in God, that is not to say that I don’t believe in anything, because I most certainly do believe in something. and it is somehting I believe is actually quite reassuring and beautiful. What I would call God is this: The ‘Stuff’ that underlies everything we percieve to be matter. speaking in Buddhist terms, The Void, or The Nothingness (No-Thing-Ness) or The Oneness. In Quantum Mechanical terms, it is the 99.99999% empty space between sub-atomic particles (that, by the way, seem to exist when we expect to see them, but aren’t there all the time, and manifest/disappear spontaneously). This may be Dark Matter, but that is not yet proven. In short, to me, what I call God is everywhere, underlies everything, and still does not exist (that we can prove… yet). This No-Thing-God of mine is the connection we feel between people when we say “we’ve met somewhere before” when we haven’t, that’s the mechanism/possible explaination for ESP, Clairvoiance, Ghosts, Hauntings, Spirit/Soul (but not Poltergeists, that PK activity, but we’ll talk about that later) Carl Jung’s ‘
, ‘Magic’, Aliens (just older, more advanced beings, right? not so scary… only scary because, again, we attribute our feable wants/desires/inclinations/behaviors onto more advanced & misunderstood beings) True Love (again, much of ‘love’ is a biological maternal/paternal instinct; we’ll get to this later, too) and, of course, explains the existence of matter itself. This concept is alluded to in most traditional teachings that Religions are based upon (yet down-played in the perpetuation of Religious Dogma & control), and in many poetic & essoteric writings. So by this theory, what would be God, doesn’t give a shit if you’re a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ person; you’re just ‘person-experession’. There is no ‘good’ or ‘bad’, there just Is. There is no ‘Right’ or ‘Wrong’; these are concepts based upon our perspective on existence. To Nature (a beautiful expression of ‘God’), the eruption of a volcano, extinction of a species (including us), or complete passing of a solar system through its life cycle has no ‘Value’ associated with it. It just Is.