For anything to become a resource, somebody has to:
a. notice it and
b. figure out that, and how, it can be used towards what that particular individual has in mind.
Until both these conditions had been met, it remains – at most, just something that is there.
The first thing any of us does when becoming conscious is to notice differences. That’s how we learn about the world.
We notice the difference between Mother and everybody else, then between Mother, Father and everybody else, between soft and hard, cold and warm, … etc. etc….
The next step is to notice the difference between ourselves and the rest of the world.
The third stage is no longer about noticing but about understanding. About putting two and two together.
Some people understand that by being different, people may complement each other. That by learning different trades, according to their talents, they may cooperate towards improving their chances of survival and their quality of life.
Other people understand that by being different, people may be made to hate and despise each-other. By concentrating the popular focus on the differences between ‘they’ and ‘the others’, the spin-doctors build up the pressure until the made-up inevitable happens.
After the ‘explosion’, the survivors have the opportunity to understand that they are not so different, after all.
That their friends and relatives have died simply because they had allowed for the differences between them to be used improperly.
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