Simple Question, Masterful Answer …

… by Juan Cole

IMO, every single American should read this piece by Dr. Cole, before they listen once again to the man who calls himself the United States’ President.

It’s hard for mass groups to learn not to put themselves in other people’s shoes. Enforced labor mobility and unfettered capital mobility have broken our pan-tribal bonds. The former destroys the extended family, the latter slashes and burns the locales it dominates.

We are so very unaware of others’ situations, feelings, aspirations, fundamental human-ness.

Some days I worry so much, believing that we are so hooped. Other days I guess I think we’ll all just keep muddling through … either way, I keep reading and re-reading His Holiness The Dalai Lama’s book The Art Of Happiness