Bully in the Playground?

 You will never reach higher ground if you are always pushing others down.

Jeffrey Benjamin

As a Canadian,  I am, as a part of a national collective, finding myself in a situation where I am being bullied for my lunch money. I see the festering ego in front of me  with his hand out and I see the gang in the back ground...scuffing their toes in the sand with heads down and smirks on their faces. They actually are using this bully for their own gains...building up his ego by telling him how tough he is...encouraging him to go after those who he believes are weaker and easy targets. At this point his ego is so inflated he believes all others around him are weak, easy targets, and he truly doesn't see how manipulated he is being by those behind him. He is seen as the big man on campus by some, the people who surround him, the cool gang. He was put in this situation by unconscious students wanting just a piece of what he appears to have. They want to belong. This is, however,  a far from inclusive gang. It is a group that is overly selective...white rich caucasian males calling all the shots for the other students on campus. All the wanna be members are just going to get trampled on.  A sort of gatekeeping takes place, under his psuedo leadership. where the bodies and minds of other students are controlled or forced off the playground for their differences.  Gang members line the borders of the school yard and allow so few in and they are pushing so many out as if repeating the same  cleansing that led to WW2. They  walk forward metre by metre (yard by yard) in an attempt to expand their territory  stealing lunch money here, stealing it there. Sigh! Who would want in under this gang control? 

So, I in my collective, stand here watching the bully puff himself up ...seeing it all so clearly...shaking my head as to how he got to stand where he is standing now but accepting that it is the way it is. He was put into this role by a collective mindset that is a little lost and veering off the path of attaining what is really important. My peaceful national conditioning will play the game for a while...I will hand over my  lunch money because I  know, in the calm, peaceful wisdom that makes my country what it is, that bullies eventually destroy themselves. Sigh...I personally do not want anyone to be harmed...I just want people to learn... when they are lost...that there is a much better way to live.  Bullying...ego dominance...is never the way to go.

May all learn from this political crisis...may all be well.

All is well.