Be different!

Only by learning to relativize, we get to see the OTHER, which  is different in culture, economics, sexuality and politics.

It's like putting the glasses that belongs to someone else. Or even try to dress your skin and to feel their pores.

I believe we have to find an ethic of respecting the existential choices. Nevertheless, this ethic must preserve the dignity.

We are not better, we should not impose universal "truths" and  we could not even subjugate and oppress anyone who lives another kind of living.

 We should not think that our Western lifestyle is much better than that person who lives on a mountain, in a place where the stars appear much more and that person's life is shaped by a succession of verbs that combines daily in her simple routine, but in the same time in communion with all that is around.

Those who defend the discourse that we bring development to other cultures, I'm sorry, but this development is indeed questionable, since we are enslaving our planet in the name of exchanging civilizatory, which charges its expensive price.

We must not forget that our lives here, on this side of the world, are often designed on the basis of appearance. As we appear to be and not what we are.

As said once, the French philosopher Guy Debord in his book  The Society of the Spectacle:

“…The whole life of those societies in which modern conditions of production prevail presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. All that once was directly lived has become mere representation...”

“…Diversities and contrasts among such phenomena are the appearances of the spectacle­­ the appearances of a social organization of appearances that needs to be grasped in its general truth.

  

 Understood on its own terms, the spectacle proclaims the predominance of appearances and asserts that all human life, which is to say all social life, is mere appearance. But any critique capable of apprehending the spectacle's essential character must expose it as a visible negation of life ­­ and as a negation of life that has invented a visual form for itself…” 

It is more than evident that the model that exists today, based on the neoliberal capitalist system produces social inequality, ethnic inequality, gender inequality, sexism and misogyny and religious intolerance, because this system does not accept who is different.

                                                                                            

This system maintains the spectacle of images and feeds back.

In my view, the best way to deal with differences is we take our masks and stop with the theatrics. Living life with substance, denying what is superficial and trying to be more original, more art to BE.

We must fight against any desire to be copies of other lives, because its very comfortable to wear the sheep costume, follow the external standards and accept the orders of advertisements, brands, labels and models.

Only accepting being different, just loving being different, we can deal with those who want even to oppress us, they want us to be equal to discriminate, because if we do not reach their standards are not deserving. We should be respected just because we are different. And the difference is more than healthier.