there’s a very thin line between prejudice and preference. and it seems that this line shifts depending on ocassion as well as the kind of people one is with. some would even go as far to insist that the distinction doesn’t really exist. “there is no spoon,” to quote from a movie, hence anybody can bend the line to any direction that point to his or her interests.
i am learning this in the middle of a nerve-wracking series of things that must be done. between the maddening rush of inner voices shouting you to do this (no this first!) and then the voices from the outer realms, not necessarily any louder, comes these fleeting flashes of walking heavenly beings. perfect ingredients for a brand of craziness that can only be heaven’s welcome gesture to Eris, the goddess of discord’s entry to our realm. imagine Earth’s fertility and the Underworld joining hand in hand to enter the pantheon of planets after their timeless dispute over Persephone, and then there was the Trojan War…
for once i am having doubts on whether the planets really have some kind of hold on human affairs. i feel an unusual affinity with this new one. now with Eris around and the ‘Great Satan’ dubiously handled by Dubya, er, World War 3, anyone?
i know what you mean when you said :
“here’s a very thin line between prejudice and preference. and it seems that this line shifts depending on ocassion as well as the kind of people one is with.”
A wise man associating with the vicious
becomes an idiot; a dog traveling with
good men becomes a rational being.
~Proverb, (Arabic)~
it seems that the rarest resource nowadays are good people.
I prefer to say true…
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