Author: Tyler Key
A wedding that doesn't serve alcohol. Walking barefoot through the bush. Looking after our planet, in community to provide accessible food, water, shelter and renewable energy to all life at the cost of profit.
A lot of people think the above are unreasonable, they'll even call it mad. (They used to imprison people who were mad.)
"What use is 'measured rationality' when to be Reasonable means to die quietly, all the time?" - Ismatu Gwendolyn
to be Reasonable, is to keep doing things the way they have always been done, and right now this is slowly killing us at an ever-accelerating pace.
Thinking beyond Reason is required to create new thoughts - the act of creativity. Being creative requires you to be unreasonable.
And nothing stings more when someone tells you you're being unreasonable.
I don't think we are being unreasonable when we ask for:
• Accessible food and safe places of shelter
• Relationships and communities that care for each other and build us up
• Employers to develop their employees protect them from unreasonable workloads with ethical CEO wage ratio's to employees
• Stopping Genocide and Ecocide
• People to care for all life, all races, all specifies, all plants and all ecologies.
Some people hope that "if we keep all the distractedness going, we will not have to look at who we are, we will not have to feel what we feel" - Judy Lief
It takes madness to
challenge the "way things have always been done"
It takes madness to create.
To create new ways of being in the world.
Have the courage to look where we are.
Have the courage to feel the feels.
Have the courage to be mad.
But which values and ethics will you use to drive your madness?
Will you care for all life, or just people that look like you?
