Diversity has destroyed more of Western Civilisation than all the wars throughout history.
I am sure that has been said by someone. But what are they actually saying? That having different voices, different points of view is bad? Are they saying that human beings, a species that went from fire and the wheel to nanoparticles and spaceships, is too simplistic to process anything other than men and women, in heterosexual relationships?
We, as a species, can develop particle physics, quantum mechanics but when you start to explore the enormous potential of human identity we fall apart? Or are they truly saying they want to go back to a time before the advances of the 21st and even 20th century? When no one discussed anything but simplistic binary existence, despite so much historical evidence of a much more complex hidden facet of our societies.
Is it just they lack imagination? Lack a capacity to comprehend how complex being a human being, capable of the kaleidoscope of beauty and horror, can be?
Do we pity them for their blindness?
Sympathise that they cannot truly experience the rainbow of the human experience?
Or does all this complexity, this need to accept people can be so very different, vibrant, symphonic in nature as opposed to what I must assume is a bland quiet monotone existence.
The human race is composed of such a vast potential, for discovery, for creation, for emotion, that anyone who thinks any of us can fit neatly into a box, a label, a one-word description, betrays such a lack of understanding, such a deficiency of imagination, you wonder if they have ever enjoyed anything beyond a vanilla like existence, when the rest of us taste a thousand flavours.
It’s kind of sad looking at it like that. I do pity them. But I won’t let them dictate my existence and neither should you.
Listening to the unimaginative, living dull simplistic lives, we will never reach the stars, swim the oceans, soar the skies.
And who wants to live like that?
Marissa Klotzbucher - Thought and Comments for Public Consumption