Watching the news for the past few weeks, it seems that the world is descending into chaos. When a Bernie Sanders supporter shoots a Republican congressmen, and when a white man plows a van into a group of Muslims at a London mosque... a man from a party known to be anti-guns commits gun violence and a white man terrorizes Muslims in a similar manner to how a terrorist Muslim terrorizes white people.... I know these are just two isolated incidents, but when the tables are turned and people do unexpected things, I worry that a cycle of violence has begun.
I worry that, like Israel and Palestine, the cycle won't end.
There was a hint about this after the election. Prior to the election, Trump was saying that he might not accept the results of the election (anticipating that he might lose). The left was in an uproar, stating that he needs to respect the process of election. Then, when Trump won, people were protesting and saying that the electoral college process needs to be eliminated, and I thought that those people were hypocrites.
I am very liberal, but I don't consider myself aligned with the Democratic party as a whole.
I believe that the world would be a better place if two things happened: 1) if people practiced more compassion and empathy in their lives; and 2) if people exercised more humility and worked towards independent thinking and realizing their intellectual capacity.
I like this episode of Huang's World where Eddie Huang gets different perspectives, and bridges cultural gaps through things like food.
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