The Lightness of Being Tolerant

There is strength in diversity

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Context Today's world is very noisy.

There is din all over - over the social media, in the newspapers, even outside our homes. There are a few people in the world's most powerful positions announcing to the world that they are the peacemakers though they are most likely the ones behind the strife, the chaos, and the incessant battles killing thousands of innocent people across the world.

Then there are people like us who elect people like them. Then we go on to question how could they do so, while we knew in our guts what disruption we were about to cause, what monstrosity we were about to unleash onto the world through casting that single ballot of ours.

Today, the world seems to be caught in a frenzy of bedlam. The old order is changing even before there is a new order. In fact, there is no order. There is only more confusion. Leaders are made on the spot only to be discarded or shredded to pieces tomorrow.

But the world has always been that way, many a philosopher says. They point out it is a miracle that the world has not been plunged into a worldwide war for such a long time. But that might soon change. Or perhaps it has already changed. Maybe this is the way the world will fight for dominance from now onwards.

In fragments; in bits and pieces; in regional confrontations; through racial discriminations. Perhaps we might not see unity even in wars. Perhaps the world is too fragmented and polarized to come together.