ISM

Whenever these three letters end a word, a separation seems to be created. For instance, we say Americanism, which means a group of people who act and behave in a certain way and live in a certain geographical boundary. Socialism means living in a social group. Communism or capitalism, mean believing in certain pollical or economical systems. Some people are proud of belonging to any of these groups, and they mention it in their communications. However, there are some words ending in these three letters which are not accepted, and even some people act as if they belong to such groupings, they are not proud of calling themselves those titles, as such titles carry along with them some negative connotations. Examples of such “isms” are sexism, chauvinism, bastardism, and so on. 

 

Whether calling oneself something that ends with “ism” is good or bad in a society, the concept or the reason to use any word ending with these three letters create a separation. It means that the person carrying such title is separate from others who do not carry them. For people who believe in boundaries, who believe in rich and poor, who believe in educated and uneducated, who believe in smart and dumb, who believe in separating himself or herself from others, using such terms present that person in a certain package, which makes it more understandable to the one the term is intended to. However, if anyone believes in a global village, where all living things share the same world and should ensure cooperation and sharing in order to keep anyone safe and happy as the others, these terms only divide.

No one knows what he or she was thinking at birth. Our brains are like a sponge when we are born, and parents holding us and hugging us make us feel safe. When we open our eyes at birth, everything is new. We see and hear and smell and taste and feel everything with our five senses for the first time. Our brain picks all that up and stores it as the first feeling of human experience. What about the brain? Is it a combination of gray and white phosphorus, along with some nerve and some non-neuronal cells only, or are there information already stored in the brain when we are born? The research has shown that our brain is really an empty sponge that starts absorbing and documenting everything from the time of birth, since the brain had been forming before we were born.

Our brain is the most important part of our body, since it is always active, even when we are sleeping, and starts working from the time we are born until we die. When someone is called “brain dead”, that is the end of that person. Any part of our body can stop functioning, and we can still live, until our brains die. Therefore, the most important part of our body is our brain, and what makes us unique is not only our features, which are unique to each person, but also our thought stemming from our brain activity. Our physical differences do not make us think and behave and act differently, but our brains do. For instance, if my skin is darker than someone else’s, it does not make me different unless I think with my brain that my skin color makes me different. So, all our understandings and theories of life are generated from our brains. We can conclude that it is important what is fed to our brains from the moment of birth, that would make us different. If I believe that blue eyes are prettier than green or brown eyes, it is not that I inherently acquired such preference, but that it was given to me as a belief system from the time I was born by someone who could influence my thoughts.

The way that we think is the most important part of our being. There are not any biological living orgasms which are the same. As our universe is so vast that it takes hundred and thousands of years to travel from one solar system to another, and there are so many solar systems and so many universes, we live in a vast expanse in this world, and so is our biology and the material we are made of, each unique. Our thought is in the same order, meaning that not two people think exactly the same. It is good to belong to a family, a neighborhood, a village, a town, and a country for cooperation and giving hands to each other. However, not for separating us from others.

We should always be careful of the reason we are together, whether we have no choice on that, such as being a child of a family, or we select our mate and our friends by choice. Whichever is the case, it is our option and it is beneficial to consider ourselves as part of a larger group, a group that pursues the same cause which is in expanding and improving humanity, and not separating them. Any word with “ism” at the end should be in the pursuit of such improvement and excelling our humanitarian vision.