JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON THE PREVALENCE AND TRANSFERABILITY OF A STATE OF 'OTHERNESS' ! THE END...
To those who once knew of it. Yet, this estrangement, this feeling of 'internal and external alienation' from ones previous sense of identification with ones 'home'.
Can occur whether or not the 'new comers', 'the others', are differentiated by their ethnic, linguistic or cultural attributed.
Because this is also a part of how us humans and our habitat, our environments are changed and transformed over decades, centuries and millenniums.
It is about the continuing evolution of our species. It is about our impermanence, our temporary status as tenants of time and space.
As just one of the objects which nature, evolution, as the ultimate but insentient painter, architect and builder, use to fashion what is and what is to follow.
The attempts by individuals, group of individuals, nations and group of nations, or parts thereof, to stop it, are doomed to failure.
So, us humans should put more time and effort into not becoming so possessive of the part of the Earth which we happen to find ourselves temporarily leasing.
We have to learn to accept that we are, indeed, of the soil, the Earth, and not its owner as such.
Our purpose is to prudently and not selfishly nurture and care for it, so that it can help to care for all of us.
Including 'the others', because 'us' and 'the others' are not intrinsically different.
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