Reality

Our culture is not as advanced and reasonable as we might like to think.

Trees drop their seeds into the wind.  Animals breed in the spring.  Rocks split into a million pieces of gravel if they fall far enough or hard enough.  Everything in the world seems set up to recreate itself in some way.

It seems natural enough -- until it comes to people.  We are so conflicted it is astounding, or perhaps we are just so greedy for power and control that it all gets lost in an intricate charade that is acceptable because that is the way we think it always has been.

Love is reduced from the reflection of all that is good and powerful to something that is for producing children and children are good only if they come from the union of a man and woman who have signed the proper papers and gone through the standard rituals.

Gender roles are designed to promote this if they are going to be universally acceptable in our culture.  We have definite requirements for the length of hair, the sort of clothing worn, the amount of submissiveness, who should or should not be working outside the home.

We pretend that sex is a dirty word and then use it to sell everything from frozen food to houses.  Even god gets used because there is nothing more powerful than saying, "God says."

Instead of basing our actual way of living on a quality existence, enough food, health care, and comfort, for everyone and everything we make up one rule after another until our credibility is truly lost.

Rules will never replace reality.