The way people act and operate is constantly changing and shifting, forming and growing. What we have seen throughout history is a push and pull in this process. One significant area that is impacted by this is the ratio of violence to peace in any given culture. In the United States, public displays of violence have been on the rise over the past few years. This past week we witnessed the biggest mass shooting in U.S. history with 50 people dead and 400 injured in Las Vegas. Just over a month ago, we saw violence being expressed alongside messages of…
Category: Blog
Coming soon…
Hi everyone, It’s been a few months since I’ve posted in here. A lot of stuff has been brewing in my mind, things I really want to write about but am having a hard time articulating. So there are a few articles on the way. I’m going to be writing about social justice and what we should do with that term now that people have taken it to the extreme and made a bad name for it, religion and how its place as behavior modification within individual cultural systems has changed as globalization and our ever changing world allow for…
Imagine covered by Pentatonix
This song embodies the concept of creating a global community by focusing on how our diversity unites us. Belonging can be hard to attain for everyone when we define ourselves by where we fit into the norms and values of one culture or another. Often by creating space for one type of person, we are putting up barriers to someone or something else. Despite our cultural differences, we all have one thing in common, our humanity. “I hope some day you will join us, and the world will live as one.”