trying to accept difference

I am more myself now and I think that’s all we can truly be. The boxes our society wants to put us in aren’t our places. Our place is our own; it is what we make of it. That's the whole purpose of life. I think it's everyone’s purpose. Accepting all forms of humanity is what we need to create a better society. It is that fucking simple. Tell me, American dreamer, is it because you think this society has nothing to improve on, that’ s why you refuse change? Do you do something because you love your hatred? Do you do nothing because you love nothing? Inaction or action, the result is the same: abuse rules. It rules more viciously through action, but inaction doesn't really do nothing. When you don’t act, you’re certainly not fixing the problem.

... I think if you want to live counter to life, you live believing that life is only one way. There is such a large inability to accept duality, diversity, difference as the foundation for everything human. I believe everything we grow and build should know this. We would be awed by what we could come up with through collaboration. Once we can see how diversity is the strongest foundation for humanity's endeavors, we are bound to see how awful and off-kilter our current world is.

But does accepting everybody mean that I need to accept people who only view life as one way? I think I can accept the existence of these people, but I don’t think I could accept that as my way of living. Candidly, I’m not sure if I think it is a way others should even live. If I were to force my opinion on them though, it would not result in a change of mindset. It potentially could, but that line of thinking is emblematic of empire. My way is better, and I’m going to go over to where you are and make you do things my way. If you do ANYTHING I don’t like, don’t understand, or is unpredictable to me, I’ll fuck you up. The violence of empire is a lack of empathetic response and connection, and it’s not something I want to repeat. So what the hell should I do?