Self-awareness is critical – recognizing a disparity between behavior and belief is step one of self-awareness – knowing if our behavior does not truly mirror our professed beliefs, positions, or allegiance to justice and equality is paramount for behavior and belief to be aligned – the lack of alignment between belief and behavior is the (BLUF) source of injustice and inequality.
The application of this essential alignment applies to politics, industry, economies, governance, and the church – the absence of self-awareness basically means the freaks just keep getting freakier generation, after generation – we’re all laced to some version of politics, economic structures, community influence, and ethical/moral positions – we all have the ability fall into the behavior/belief disparities – just like we all have the ability to check (and correct) ourselves in relation to our behavior/belief disparities.
Nationally, and all the way down to the local community political behaviors continues to spin out of (real world) control – lies keep stacking up – demand for loyalty to positions reeking of belief/behavior disparities increase continually – cult like cronyism and group manipulation drive the false appearance of allegiance over justice/equality – individual or group postures failing to align with anything real, or relevant to justice and equality in the world is the manifestation of belief/behavior disparities – justice, logic and rational thinking continue to shamelessly erode.
The “rinse and repeat” nature of this feels like when Arthur Miller was raked over the (early on fake news) coals by Congress for “The Crucible” i.e. non-American activities – the members of the House were in full blown Deputy-Governor Thomas Danforth mode blindly forcing the community to roll over and eat the lie(s) by way of a counterfeit abusive legal (religious spiked) witch hunt – NOTE: No, I was not alive for these events (LOL).
This multi-generational behavior/belief disparity thread is connected and crystal clear in politics, industry, economies, governance, and the church – its driven by a lack of understand of the way things (really) are, in conflict with the way the power base wants things to be (power base = pick your poison) – then (BOOM!) straight out of the power base playbook: panic, fear, and abuse rise to the top of “go to” actions, and nonconformers are victimized under the guise of protecting the greater good…. Ugh, rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat….
So….. mirror, mirror on the wall, is our belief and behavior aligned at all?
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