Chaotic Stasis

…when you see a pick-up truck with a bumper sticker that has the Jesus Fish eating the Darwin Fish. (*facepalm)

That looked EXACTLY like the cells I’ve been counting for 29389283 years. It wasn’t a cluster of those cells but my mind did a barrel roll nonetheless.

Apparently, my brother and his girlfriend got into a huge argument over the government and what it should do. My brother thinks things are fine the way they are and his girlfriend thinks that A) the government is too big and B) that there should be no laws and people should fend for themselves. This apparently resulted in his girlfriend leaving, them making up on telephone, and her coming back to sleep over haha. In seriousness, I’m really glad that they made up because I like his girlfriend and I think she brings out the best in him.

That said, I can’t help but chuckle at the absurdity of their fight, which apparently escalated with extreme intensity. They were so incensed by abstractions of what the government should do. Why not, instead, get incensed by the tangible injustices that plague nations even as “great” as the USA? Why not take all that energy, that passion, and translate it into actions that tangibly benefit the lives of others? Theory and discussions of how things ought to be are critically important in that they frame our understanding of the world and how we should act to make positive social changes. However, it seems that so many people get caught up in vehemently discussing abstractions that they forget to vehemently work towards positive social changes (i.e. alleviating the suffering of others). If there’s something I’ve learned in the past few years, it’s that there is too much suffering in the world for us to be wasting all our passion on political diatribes. How about we take some of that vigor and channel it to making the world a better place?