Why I Don't Like Tolerance

First of all, it's one of the most misused words around.

Racial tolerance, for instance. It means people want to keep the very thing that creates prejudice: The division, the identities and identifications with separated groups and the ego involved; but they just want it intensified and add "tolerance" to the mix. Well, you don't get rid of a problem until you get rid of it's source. The source is divisiveness caused by identifications with groups and the separative egotistical thinking that goes with that.

Next, tolerance encourages problems to continue. We think that we just need to change our thinking, accept the worst conditions and the most simplistic thinking and "tolerate" that which is creating the problem; somehow that will magically make everything better.

What I would rather do, and why some people don't like me, is take all of these things, psychologically and socially, which have been creating the problem all along, and tear them apart, criticize them down to the bone. Because most of us spend a life-time tolerating them, and end up with the same problems over and over again. Meantime, those who benefit, in their temporary ways, are happy clams because people have been duped into thinking the wrong way is the right way. People don't want to give up the identities and group belonging and all that, in spite of the fact that it perpetuates fear and violence. Dumb.

So, instead of just tolerating every little bit, or big bit, of nonsense and destructive divisive thing that comes along, you should be looking at it honestly and figuring out why it bothers you.

Also, by tolerance I'm not talking about the superficial things like whether you like a hair-style or you think somebody's shoes are the wrong color; that's all meaningless, and I don't really care.

Really, just don't go along with everything; somebody starts with the empty simplistic talk about tolerance, look into the actually meaning of it and whether it even makes sense.