We are born naïve. There is no way for us to know the evil that is in our world around us as an infant.
Black and white are all we can see at first. Able to only detect light, motion and shapes. The people we see have no characteristics at the first stage of life. In time, we attribute age and influence to them. Teachers, parents, and ones around us add to our malleable bank of opinion, vulnerable to a general judgment due to our community around us.
Stigma and judgment are what causes us to become deplorable. Deplorable is not even a noun, but recently Hillary Clinton used it as one and many have followed. Clinton is deplorable by calling others deplorable; therefore, adding to the stigma of judging others based on a general opinion.
Kim Jong-un is successfully firing nukes, Syria is in a “ceasefire,” innocent children are being blown to bits and Russian’s are hacking private emails and health records. These actions have horrible outcomes, but no apparent positive results. No one wins here.
These people have malintent due to their community influence from stage one-infancy, growing up and having a constant idea of others drilled into our heads. We are manipulated by our cultures and societal norms, naturally wanting to fit in. Peel our skin back and we are all the same, but we turn our backs on this notion.
Turn on CNN, read The New York Times, we all watch what is going on around us and have an opinion, but expect others to do something about it. The problem is, these people also expect others to do something about the horror in our world, so nothing is changed.
As a result, we are all couch potatoes sitting on our asses waiting for nothing.
Now I am going to help Hillary out and all those other political figures (Mike Pence) in redefining this definition. Let's stop pointing fingers at “who’s the deplorable here.”
Deplorable: all of us who have a generated opinion on the world around us as a result of predisposed judgments passed down to us and stigmas that are stuck like gum on the bottom of a shoe.
Let’s all change and take responsibility for the harsh, unaware judgment we embody and choose to ignore.
As Little Red Riding Hood took her basket of goods to see granny, she had no bad view of the wolf in front of her; she saw the world as good. Let’s embrace that good that we see in her basket (who doesn’t love a good pastry) and in herself.
