INJUSTICE

‘Excrement Occurs’

“Life is a carnival, believe it or not”, as the song goes – and we all have ringside seats to the circus that is our lives. Each of us moves through time and space experiencing the continuous stream of events while making observations of these experiences. Those parts of events which touch us and that we actually experience on a personal level we think of as “our lives”. And there shit happens. Not all of it is good. Some of the events that go on around us are unjust. People are unthinking and they step on our toes causing us harms – real or imagined.

They lie. They cheat. They steal. They are rude. They make mistakes even as we make mistakes - unintentionally and sometimes they do it on purpose. We begin to witness such events – cruelties - through our sensory perceptions - sight, sound, smell and yes, even our imaginations -- and we begin to process this information so that we may respond to it. Just how we process what we see, especially cruelty -- actions which may threaten or harm us -- affects our lives profoundly. The next chapter explains just what is beginning to happen to us as we process this cruel ‘data’.