Has Humanity Gone Missing?

It’s been a minute since my last post… okay, more like a whole era 😅 Between school, work, parenting, and, well, the world, I’ve kind of gone MIA. Life’s been loud, chaotic, and honestly, a little overwhelming.

But something’s been sitting heavy on my chest, and I can’t ignore it anymore.

I don’t know about you, but lately, it feels like the world has gone off the rails. Not just a little lost, but like we collectively forgot what being human even means. Some mornings I scroll the news and honestly think, Are we seriously doing this again?

The rise of the far right isn’t just a U.S. problem anymore. Thanks to the chaos unleashed during the Trump era, that wildfire has spread across Europe too. In places like Hungary, Italy, and even here in Norway, leaders are leaning into division. And people, regular folks, are following.

It’s Like Empathy Packed Its Bags and Left

It really feels like most people only care about themselves and maybe their closest circle, if that. I get it, people are tired. The world is overwhelming. But here’s what worries me: we’re being played.

The “big guys,” governments, corporations, elite groups with too much money and way too much power, have spent centuries mastering the art of division. They’ve sold us this story: They’re not like you. Be afraid. Defend yourself. Hate them first. And we’ve swallowed it like cough syrup.

But let’s call it what it is, propaganda.

Messy Isn’t New, But the Lies Are Older Than We Think

The world has always been messy. But we haven’t always been told the truth about it. Just look at the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Remember the weapons of mass destruction that never existed? Remember how they used fear to justify war, destruction, and years of pain? And now, here we are again, watching history get rewritten in real-time.

Black history is being erased from school curriculums in the U.S., labeled “divisive” or “too political,” while the truth gets whitewashed to protect fragile egos. Meanwhile, Europe likes to pretend it had nothing to do with slavery beyond some ships, when in reality, it was actively shipping Africans to the continent to work (read: suffer) in their homes, fields, and industries.

Yes, there has always been slavery. Or… has there? That’s the question I keep turning over. Because even if there was slavery before the African slave trade, no group in history rounded up millions of people, dragged them across oceans, and institutionalized their oppression for centuries. Africans weren’t doing that. Asians weren’t doing that. Europeans did. And America built itself on it.

So I ask, why is that not the story we’re taught?

Why are people so unwilling to question the narrative they’ve been fed? Why do so many white people still sit in this odd, inherited belief that they’re somehow superior? Is it fear? Guilt? Or just generations of conditioning?

Most People Just Want Peace

It blows my mind that so many people don’t get this: the majority of human beings, regardless of race, religion, or where they come from, just want to live in peace. They want to raise their kids, eat good food, laugh a little, maybe go to the beach. That’s it.

But the extremists, the loud ones, the violent ones? They hijack the narrative. And then, suddenly, everyone with brown skin is suspicious. Every immigrant is a threat. Every Muslim is dangerous. Meanwhile, we forget that the biggest acts of terror in recent history have often come from the inside. Remember January 6th? Yeah.

And then Trump had the nerve to say there were “very fine people on both sides.” I can’t.

Time to Wake Up

We must not forget that many of the people alive when segragtion was in the USA, many of those people have grown up learning in their parents hate and still some are alive today! These kids (now grown) have learned to hate black people, and for the ones who still see that it’s wrong to hate people solely based on their color, they are the ones we should educate, the rest, the ones who just want to hate too hate, we have to have pations with.

I’m not here to preach. I’m a woman trying to figure things out myself, raising two kids, navigating ADHD, dodging burnout like it’s a sport. But I know this: we are not going to heal as a people, as a planet, until we face the truth.

We’ve been lied to. For centuries.

But if we just open our minds a little, if we step out of the narratives we were raised in, there’s a whole lot of truth waiting for us. And yes, it’s uncomfortable. But it’s also freeing.

So, yeah. Humanity feels like it’s gone missing. But maybe, just maybe, it’s waiting for us to wake up and come find it again 💛 Some of us were taught to hate. Others were taught to stay quiet. But here’s the thing, if you truly want to educate yourself, start by reading “Hate is Taught, and Sometimes, So Is Change.” Because just like hate is passed down, so is the choice to break the cycle.💛

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