Monday, December 18, 2023

Chelan Harkin: Healing Hierarchy


Healing Hierarchy

Racism, sexism, any imagined hierarchy is a leveraged weaponizing of worthlessness.

The imagination is one of humanity’s greatest and most fascinating faculties. When we sully this capacity by imagining ourselves to be superior, we make this faculty a depraved slave of our woundedness.

Any thought, feeling, reaction, motivation, choice that comes from superiority reveals an insecurity and inferiority within us that we feel too frail, ignorant or under-resourced to acknowledge.

Far from a show of true status, to play into the wretched game of superiority that has gone on for far too long, is to flaunt a crippled humanity and a stunted relationship with our own soul.

To begin on the long path of healing hierarchy, we must acknowledge what is beneath it.

— Chelan Harkin


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