Conservatives Love Categories

Conservatives love categories ... racial, nation-of-origin, color, religion, class, gender, orientation, age, size, intelligence, shape of the head, or whatever else can used to divide and conquer, leading to social discord and war.

All of these categories, for the Conservative, define who's in and who's out, who counts and who doesn't, who has rights and who shouldn't have any. And if of a christian bent, who's going to heaven, and who's going to hell.

These Covid-19 Days have seen added to the mix of categories: the elderly, the health-compromised, and the incarcerated.

It's ok for the elderly to get sick and die ... and the health-compromised, too ... and surely the incarcerated. What are they doing in prison in the first place? Shame on them.

The Conservative Mind is rigid with its distinctions and more than willing to cast off those deigned inferior, dangerous, or undeserving.

If you're a Conservative and don't like what I've written, ask yourself Why?

Do you rely on these kinds of categories to distinguish yourself from others? Believe yourself (humbly, of course) to be morally superior, spiritually higher in rank, closer to God, more deserving of life, privilege, and comfort?

In the realm of God, which is important to me, and sets the standard, or so I believe, these sorts of distinctions are a script from hell, and not of Christ, nor of the Hebrew Prophets.

To Christ, and to the Prophets, I look for guidance ... as best I can. I may be mistaken, but I think a life lived with with open arms is a whole lot more peace-inducing and rewarding than a life lived with arms folded in a defiant rejection of others.

Health in Your Hands???

"Your health in your hands" reads the tagline on a website ...


I thought, "True enough, but are there no other hands?"


What about the hands that manage the air I breath?
Or the hands that grow, process and package the food I eat?
The hands that mange the water I drink?
The hands that fill our world with ads to eat this, buy that, drink all the more?


Our health is in lots of hands.
Hands that would just as soon remain anonymous.


And, of course, if we get sick, it's our fault.
No one else's.
Because our health is in our hands.


Or so the other hands want us to believe.