10 GROUNDCOVER NEWS THINK ABOUT IT Humanity did not happen to blink into existence yesterday. It wasn’t marooned on this planet by some childish god unwilling to shoulder the responsibility of creating us. Yes, we are a fledgling species that has existed for merely a blink compared to the fullness of time. However, the place we find ourselves in was reached by a lengthy road of trial and error, speculations and confirmations, wars and peace times. We have ventured from literally rubbing sticks together to manipulating atomic structures. We have learned and experienced a great deal. Ultimately we have reached a general consensus of what is right and what is wrong. So why then do we continue to be influenced by dark impulses that one knows better than to indulge in? Why do and how can we act so superior, yet embrace nihilism and its ultimate self destruction? Should our race cease to exist because of the actions of our worst representations? Well, yeah, definitely if we were to be labeled and stereotyped. These practices conveniently provide the excuse to wipe out the entire group for its offenders. I would love to believe that an external witness of humanity would have the impression that we are collectively a prospering and productive peace-loving species. Unfortunately I can’t say I confidently believe that is how we could be described. And if any such potential judges happen to be prone to the type of stereotyping and labeling that we employ, then we would have no justifiable right to hope for a positive outcome. Yet we continue to subject others to these methods we instinctively know are wrong. While we passively feign ignorance of such knowledge to satisfy some deep-seated dislike or hatred. This is anything but fair to its countless victims considering all one requires for such poor treatment is some false assumption backed by any kind of JAMES MANNING Groundcover vendor No. 16 existing statistic to affirm the attacker’s course of reception and at the extreme spectrum, action. Now what is truly tragic about this behavior is the fact the person who is judged happens to not be the mindless tool or trash you take them for and now are left with this experience, and it’s going to affect them in various ways, one way or another. And now with the practice of stereotyping, this unpleasant experience transcends from being an event to an element of their life and a withering assault. Not just that but I use the description withering because it’s a presumed assault on one’s character. So if you actually took the time to think about it, what do you suppose that would do to somebody? It’s no surprise that since this harmful trait is so common among people, everybody seems to be suffering from depression these days. Now going back to how this aspect of social behavior is indeed tragic, it should be obvious because it certainly does impact a person’s mental health and overall self-image and I imagine in cases severe enough would start to impact their actual life. This risks becoming a reality for them, as the consequences of assumptions develop into real events. For example, if you’re perceived as worthless (incorporating other people’s unwarranted opinions of you) then you may not be able to get a job. If a person’s treated as if they’re a bum, there’s the risk that could make CLIENT from page 7 on the staff is very nice, mostly. I did run into a few in the past that I thought were misguided and they were probably pro-Black. Whoopdy dooo! The issue is, can someone differentiate between differences of opinion and institutional racism? (Reference trending conversations about “per capita” violence and criminal tendencies and specifically FBI statistics.) I'm not so sure some can — let's see if they can imagine not eating breakfast first. There may be people who are not capable of certain considerations. (There are some people who have aphantasia, in which people are unable to visualize from their imagination.) Another issue I had besides folks being loud or at times aggressive, is stinky people. I proposed a stink squad that might find stinky people and encourage them to bathe; deodorant is cheap! WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY!!! It may embarrass some people a bit. I think it's important, sheeeit some of the scurvy dogs got LICE!!!! I knew a few people that caught it. I think this will be reduced now that the warming center season is over. However, a stink squad could in the future help with this as it's a matter of public health, AND getting cleaned up can boost someone's self esteem. People who don't stink are not stigmatized and marginalized the same way stinky ones are. We didn't get to this too much at the - advisory meeting, but agenda item number seven (listed above) with the newsletter idea, seemed a bit redundant. Aren't I doing the newslettering now? LOL. Number eight on the other hand was interesting — lists whatever accusation, however untrue, a reality. But that’s not because they were what you assumed them to be, unremorsefully insisting that they belonged in such a punishing situation. Sticks and stones, people. You think this continues because people often choose the easiest, simplest route given any circumstance. And it’s always easier to label groups of people off some common trait and treat the whole accordingly. It’s wrong! You know it’s wrong! So why repeat the same shortcoming? Many would debate that it’s difficult to be compassionate. Yet it is as simple as asking yourself how you would feel if treated the same. No really, I’m not joking, that is the only question one needs to ask to avoid subjective ruin. Like I mentioned, how do you expect a person who looks down on a person to proceed? Well, luckily my money’s on the fact that any living race with a social system that continued such destructive habits wouldn’t last long enough to arrive at a point technology-wise to ever leave their solar system and contact other civilizations. How can we have faith in that when we do not have it in ourselves? Unfortunately APRIL 19, 2024 Humanity needs to reconsider its judgmentalism until we choose to discard such terrible and immature points of view and even worse approaches to them, we may well have no future compared to the bleak one we are trajected for. If we continue to behave this way, what will happen if we face catastrophe and our behaviors have separated us so we can’t form a united front to meet the challenge? So again, no magic answers, only my best realistic insight to a problem that plagues the masses. And I certainly implore you to take a half second of thought to consider the feelings of others likely to be affected by how you decide to treat them or at least consider that every cold shoulder, every insult and every condescending scowl for the supposed idiot before you can kill a little piece of them, yourself, and our collective race. There is no acceptable excuse for empathy to be considered a difficult behavior to employ. And you definitely should not dish out such judgment, knowing or rather not knowing the facts. All I’m really trying to say is we have a conscience for a reason and it would do some good if we listened to it more often. of resources are good, websites are cheap these days. Here is an interesting one: https://squattheplanet.com/ I look forward to many more of these client advisory meetings. Due to the nature of the “Delphi” meeting, I think the themes will evolve over time. If you the reader have any questions or concerns, bring them to my attention by emailing me at hirethisguy139@gmail. com. I’ll compile them on a list and bring them up at future meetings.
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