The Shallow Surface

Look at our slogans and cliches and you'll discover what is inherently, willfully and habitually wrong with the human condition:

We tell ourselves, "Be yourself," a call to authenticity, yet almost all movement in and around us is to "be" what is approved by those around us.

We tell ourselves, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" a call to recognize the good beneath the unpleasant, yet almost all movement in and around us encourages to resist the unexpected, the strange, or the misunderstood.

We tell ourselves, "I want to make the world a better place," yet almost all movement in and around us is to be intolerant and defensive toward those whose vision for a better world is different than our own.

We tell ourselves, "I'm a very spiritual person" yet almost all movement in and around us is about bodily protection, comfort and pleasure.

We tell ourselves, "I hate politics," yet almost all movement in and around us is about guarding our own special interests through the manipulation of whatever "system" we find ourselves in.

Try it with any of your own cliches.