Tuesday, January 16, 2018

treated


by wiggly jones, "the little hippie boy"





here is a very common expression

you hear it every day

maybe you use it yourself

treated like a human being

but what does it mean?

does it mean anything?

could you explain what it meant to a martian?

or to a time traveler from 500,000 b c?

how many of the 8 billion other persons on the planet do you treat like a human being?

or ever get a chance to?

how many of them treat you like a human being ?

or get a chance to?

how about the people you see and pass by every day?

it is not billions but if you live in a city it might be a few thousand

two people are sitting in a subway car

facing each other

but almost surely not looking at each other

one could be old, and one young

one could be male, and one female

or one black and one white

or one well off and the other homeless

one a criminal and the other a law-abiding citizen, etc etc

or - they could be identical in most particulars

they don’t want to talk to each other

or know each other

or meet each other’s eyes

or have anything at all to do with each other

or have the other think for one second that they might want anything to do with them

are they treating each other like human beings?



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