The Virus of Bad Ideas...

There was that famous question: "Can't we all just get along?"

Of course, unfortunately, the answer is: "No, we can't!"

There are some really bad ideas floating around in the history of human consciousness. Pernicious, vicious, terrible, anti-human ideas. Think of them almost like debilitating, brain-destroying, viruses. Diseased ideas. Ideas that are repellant, ideas that healthy-minded folks can't just go along with.

Many of these diseased ideas revolve around domination and racism. Look at the long march of history - genocide, slavery, oppression. Often the bad ideas float to the top and captivate big swaths of humanity. Why is it that human beings are willing to sabotage themselves, and sabotage other human beings just like them?

You hope that the best ideas, the life-affirming ideas, will win and carry the day. But it seems to always be a battle. A battle of ideas propelled by fear, hate, love, compassion, etc. All the contradictory human emotions swirling around each other.

So, yes, we like the idea that we can all "get along," that's one of the nicer ideas floating out there, but there are some folks walking around with bad shit in their heads. They need a rethink, a reprogramming, a detoxification. Or maybe they should just be ignored, or shunted to the side?

Maybe we can try to reason, or persuade them of the better ideas? Or is that just a bit of wishful thinking? Some of these bad ideas never seem to die, they just lie in wait, ready to inhabit, the next host. Bad shit on the rise.