speaking the collective mind
I always worry about the tyranny of the majority,
it is a Friends testimony that consensus is the goal,
not acquiescence to going along with the bulk of the others,
such as in voting,
but rather to find commonality in the truth revealed,
where it's not the individual will but rather a collective will
somehow emerging from the interaction of one's own truth
with the insights others bring to the grand effort,
"that Friend speaks my mind" scares me,
despite how often it might be true,
I remember well the times a lone voice spoke up,
and saw things differently,
one time I spoke up:
"that Friend does not speak my mind:
I need to change my mind,"
our species is challenged
by reconciling our love for connection with the other,
and our love for finding the truth as currently revealed,
even if that revelation is painful.
by Henry H. Walker
September 2, ‘25
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