UNITY WITH DIVERSITY

“THESE are the times that try men’s souls” – Thomas Paine. Divisiveness seems everywhere, encroaching everything everywhere, and with it a kind of intolerance and negativism. It’s always been easier to berate, criticize and destroy than to support, solve. create and build, or at least so it seems to me. Little is accomplished by divisiveness and its ultimate expression in destruction and death individually, through mass shootings or nationalistic war. On the other hand, discrimination is an often necessary part of learning (called from antiquity by Aristotle, “classification”), and isn’t necessarily negatively divisive or involve intolerance, beratement or destruction. These happens when barriers of morality are transgressed. In fact, one can be discriminatory and not at all divisive. Discrimination can point out where efforts are needed to better humanity.

In my opinion, the key to all this is balance, the Golden Rule and unity, sometimes called compromise. The goal is to bring people together in action and deed, without doing harm, not an easy goal, for sure, but a mainstay of democracy. At least, so I believe. It is when things get out-of-balance, are done with disregard to others or for the purpose of anarchy. Within that mixture is war, a game of money and power, made by humans against humanity. If there were ever an outstanding “crime against humanity,” it would, in my opinion, be war. Making money or consolidating power at the expense of humans, animals, plants and the planet is perhaps one of the most egregious of sins and could easily be the tenth level of Dante’s hell.

The point I’m trying to make — one explored in my recent award-winning book, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2021) by Raymond Gaynor — https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859 — an Amazon audiobook genre bestseller, is grounded in the the ideal of unity with diversity. Unity is necessary to move idea through action into reality. Diversity is necessary as a hedge against bad judgement or ill-fate, highlighting that humans seem to learn more from mistakes than victories. May I commend to you THE EDGE OF MADNESS. It’s really not that bad a place to be.

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