ROOT DOWN
Bad ideas are like weeds. Once they take root, they spread and disseminate until they take over entire neighborhoods, towns; sometimes entire countries.
With a simple gust of air, a whispered promise based on a false truth, a bad idea or ill intent, can spread far and wide, infecting all it comes in touch with.
There was a time in the United States where a move was made to abolish slavery. The result was a time where a man, woman, or child could be strung from their necks because of the color of their flesh.
There was a time when the powers in the Olde Country fought for control of the new world. The result was the first use of chemical warfare: blankets infected with smallpox given to the indigenous population as gifts.
The apartheid in South Africa, the genocides in Rwanda, the rise of the Nazi regime - all based on the promise of a better, brighter world, and all with no though to the cost.
The result is usually rebellion, war and countermeasures that end in the same results as their causal effects. The result is usually devastating and desperate, and for what? To begin a new cycle of hate and misinformation, to create new reasons to start fresh.
The good become bad, the bad good. Allegiances shift and favor curries based on the needs of the many: the global economy.
It is time for change, to spread the seeds of promise and peace. Let those winds blow for a change. Let us create a shift in perspective and attitude.
Pluck your weeds of knowledge and scatter forth those seeds. They are the ones that need to take root. They are the ones that need to flourish, those seeds of change for the betterment of the many, versus the interests of the few.
Let us allow these seeds to root down, carried on a wind of change that benefits us all.
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