A night with the untouchables
The last few days I find myself pretty amazed at how deep and far reaching class divides are existing today.
And am freshly seeing how seeing the world, learning about the world through the eyes of people who are/have been mired in this way … has affected the way one person is able to function amid and think about a group of people who are unfamiliar to their own experience.
Conditioning. Runs. Deep.
The linked essay below “A Night with the Untouchables” by someone who lives in the heart of Ottowa near the Canadian Parliament where the Freedom Convoy landed is what’s coalesced these thoughts of mine this morning.
This goes far beyond skin color. That feels like a lazy scapegoat.
Not that there aren’t plenty of shallow assumptions and generalizations made about people based on the melanin levels in their skin, and there are examples that can be offered up where these differences (in both directions these days) can be pointed to as having pros or cons associated. There are.
But this (mostly white and mostly male), let’s call them trade-working gathering of people with big equipment it turns out, offer an interesting opportunity.
These folks are necessitating those who are-not-that to grapple with their own assumptions and notions - because it’s a peaceful, clean and well managed protest … is simultaneously revealing to me so many things I didn’t fully get about how (mostly white and “educated”) people see trade-working folks and also has me thinking about how that’s so much not how I understand & naturally see the world.
There’s something about how I was raised, having a several generations deep benefit, exposure to and inheritance of “whatever higher education brings to the recipe” and possibly additionally about being born “on the fence” between black and white …. there’s some kind of interesting crossroads there.
In a way it feels like biases and counter biases came together to negate, cancel and disprove each other - in me.
And what that looks like - on paper - is in my Design.
Open Head
Open G
Possibility View
What’s not working
Seeing Projector
39.5 not seeing obstacles
47.5 something to do with maintaining a middle road perspective between oppressed/oppressors- without hypocrisy 🤔
19/49 - tribal channel of sensitivity
Fear Motivation - keeps seeking the foundation
1st line - energy to investigate
All this to notice how much I haven’t been able to “get” about the things that divide (generalizing here) people’s understanding of what “the other” is like.
And how much fear that happens and the divide that drives.
In the past (and often in the current tbh) … having patience for that (not being like me-ness) has been challenging. Tiresome, eye-rolling fodder.
But at the same time - no one is me. No one could be me.
No one could be you.
Human Design shows us this. On paper and in our actual experiments.
Our Design, our differentiation is well… everything.
Being able to glimpse what we are not … is everything else.
Which upon re-reading sounds impossible, or a typo - how can one thing be “everything” and some other puzzle piece be “everything thing else”
And yet, maybe you see what I mean? 🤷🏻♀️
What a great essay this is (for me) to be reading at exactly this moment in time.
Maybe for you too.
https://maybury.ca/the-reformed-physicist/2022/02/03/a-night-with-the-untouchables/
Photo: The Convoy on Kent Street. February 2, 2022.