The Human Mind is Racist

We do not see things as they are, but rather as we are.

We are limited, yet we are not lost, if we are willing to acknowledge our limitations.

How are we limited? In that we appreciate every person before, we make judgments, attempting to make sense of our sensory impressions.

Who do I see, what does he or she mean to me, what does he or she intend? We always prejudging in order to classify and protect. These manner of control are base attempts to regulate a scary, unforeseeable world.

Yet the fear, not the world, needs to be addressed. Our mind's borders, forever blocking its proper scope, cause us to see what is not, beyond what our fears and follies will permit.

The human mind is racist, to the degree that it would catalogue, describe, then predict the thoughts, words, and deeds of every person we meet.

Do we rid ourselves, therefore, of this limited and limiting capacity of the mind? Why would we destroy ourselves?

Rather, let us acknowledge the limitations which we face. Let us forgive one another of naturally jumping to conclusions, piecing together disparate information in desperate attempts to distance any potential harm or wrong-doing.

If the mind's innate capacity is to discriminate, then let us no longer seek to unify information, but operate according to sure values, matters of faith, intuition, and tradition.