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I think everyone can agree that children from homes where violence, emotional abuse, neglect, poverty and even those less obvious but no less damaging things like uncertainty can cause damage. Whether it surfaces immediately or years later.
Now imagine that home is bigger, it’s the street, your town, country and inevitably the planet and all life that calls it home. All those children living with that. Seeing grown ups fighting, unable to hold a discussion without abusing each other.
Imagine what’s being bottled up in their collective subconscious. It’ll surface, some of it now, little acts of rebellion, perhaps riots and maybe worse. But at some point the seeds we’ve sown will be eaten by the chickens that come home to roost.
Most of us, I include myself have done nothing to stop this, at best we’ve stuck our heads in the sand, looked after our own, tutted at the silliness of it all. But we’re just the neighbour that ignores what’s happening next door.
I don’t know what the answer is that will put an end to this cycle of hatred and fear. We could show empathy for all beings, but that would be dismissed as impractical hippy nonsense! There’s seemingly no room for a voice of hope a reason now.
No what will happen is a continuation of what is. Until one day, the damn will break and it’s all washed away. Perhaps I’ll be around to see it. But I’m pretty sure that we’ll be looked a upon as a generation that had all the potential but let it slip away.
I found this online today, encapsulates my thoughts on the matter. Bet nobody got to the end of this thread.
Off to ink something now, that’ll take the edge off.
