The Great Equalizer

There appears to be a great deal of injustice and inequality alive and well in the world today. 

In the US, racism is alive and well.  Likewise, so is classism - but we don't speak of that. Wealthy whites control the media here, so classism isn't a subject that comes up.  Racism does though, and often, because the wealthy whites that control everything want to keep it alive so that division and disagreement are the norms and not the exceptions.  A people divided are easier to control, after all. But I digress. 

Back to my original point:   the inequality we see today crosses many barriers, and its themes run deep.  But really, at the end of the day, there is at least one thing that serves to equal out both sides of our human equation. No matter which side of that proverbial equation you are on - whether you're a member of the elite wealthy or the suffering poor, the favored race or the race that is scorned - we all have two constants that never change:  we are born into this world, and we will leave it through death. 

Birth and death happen to us all. 

This is something we have in common with every form of carbon-based life that surrounds us; everywhere.  Everything in nature - of which we are a part, not separate as we would like to believe - begins and ends.  Biochemically speaking, anyway.   And our view of the world has been so very limited; confined, as it were, to what we can see, touch, smell, hear and taste.   Since we have created the world and our perception of it from these tactile senses, we are doomed now to birth and death.    I've already mentioned that there may be a way out of these cycles.  But until we can collectively make these changes, we are doomed to be born and to die. 

All of us. 

Think about that for a minute.  

Every single human being on the Earth has been born and will ultimately die.  

This means that no matter what we are born into, what environment we find ourselves in, where we live, who we are,  how much money we have, etc., we have at least these two most basic fundamentals in common.   

In the light of birth and ultimately of death, our differences fall away.   Death does not see the color of your skin, or the address of your home. Death does not stop to ponder who you know, or who knows you.  It does not care whether you have large sums of money, or no money at all.  It cares nothing for the details of your life.   It just meets all of us there at the end.  It's both dreaded and welcomed, feared and revered.   

Biomechanical death is the great equalizer - it levels the playing field for all of us.  The most we can do at this present stage in our human development is to make sure our game (our life) is played fairly and justly, that we respect all, harm none, and make the decision every day to be good humans.