It Would be OK if Trump Returns
Embracing the inevitable: a Zen approach
The first minutes of the ill-fated debate, I had that sinking feeling. You know that sinking feeling you get when you see a large dead fish at the beach? In this case, this fish is our democracy or the US that we all know and like.
And you have to admit, there is something larger at work here, something that is beyond our comprehension. It is like the evil is protected, and anything you do doesn’t help; corruption and immorality always find a way out, no matter how inexplicable it is. Nothing will help.
When we arrive at such a place, we must search for a different answer, a different way to cope and understand what is going on. That is not evil that is winning; it is more like change that is coming and a kind of change that is unavoidable because this change is part of our evolution and our destiny. And you can see that the US is not the only one.
To gain we must lose, to appreciate we must have the lack of, to feel happiness we first need to be unhappy, and to appreciate heaven, we first need to know what hell is. Get ready.
In the same way, to appreciate and protect our democracy, we must know what a democracy isn’t. Which is what we’re about to find out. And nobody can go there for you. You have to go yourself and…
