Polarized We Battle Forever · What I Want Is What Matters
⁘ “Take aim together. Set common objectives. A direction beneficial for everyone. But we remain polarized. We define ourselves in contrast and opposition to everyone else. Us versus them, our needs versus their needs. No third way, no middle ground. Yet a third way opens on a higher ground. What's vital in a more universal sense. More than your wants. If we don't separate objective needs from subjective wants, it's war forever and ever. Right?”
Oh how I wish we could all
take aim together, set common objectives,
pursue a direction beneficial for everyone.
But alas, it's so very complicated,
when we remain polarized,
when we define ourselves
in contrast and opposition to everyone else.
Us versus them, our needs versus their needs.
There is no third way,
there is no middle ground.
Grudgingly we make compromises,
but we retain the supremacy
of our will and our way.
There's always a third way,
but a third way opens on a higher ground.
Not in the concrete imperatives you set on your terrain.
The points you keep on hammering,
as if they were a matter of your survival,
even though often they're not,
they're just your preferences...
Do you ever pause to consider,
what's the point of my point?
What of it is actually vital
in a more universal sense,
and what of it is simply the way you want it.
If we don't separate objective needs
from subjective wants, it's war forever and ever.
Right?