“One can complain or attack a problem with an approach as flat (only one perspective at once) as a complaint is, but it won’t affect the problem — except maybe to make it worse. It will also damage your intelligence in the process, which makes it far more difficult to proceed toward resolution or revolution…

To actually -solve- problems together, it is almost always necessary to see the different ‘scales’ (think: rungs on a ladder where the problem is the top) that ‘appear as a single phenomenon’ … at the top. In this case, the vaccinations. The problem becomes a kind of ‘cone with rungs’ that widens as it descends toward its basis.

If one then examines -each level- that contributes to the problem insightfully, and creatively, re-applying this to one’s understand of the entire structure at each step, back and forth this way, aspect – to – whole, it becomes not only possible… but probable, that you will be empowered and inspired -invent- a solution that is so simple and elegant it rapidly becomes -more contagious- than the problem.

This is even more true if your insight deeply includes the living context of human lives, thoughts, and needs. And it is my experience and clear sense that this is the nature of our human souls, and our relational intelligence. I believe in the basic truth of these matters not due to coercion or bias of faith: but because I know and directly experience their power in our minds and in the world.

If we stop at complaint? The problem worsens. Complaint is a pressure valve that bleeds the momentum we need to -actually effect change-… off into the social atmosphere. Be careful with it.”

— seen with the heartful aid of friends in Nigeria