Getting Closer (muddling through the concepts in my mind that are generally expressed in feelings rather than words)

Why don't we get it?

"Can Schools really ban hugging?"

We're so uncomfortable with affection, teachers aren't allowed to touch students any more, and there's this strange article about a ban on hugging. There have been a few accidents, problems, tragedies, and so everyone has been banned. Something bad happens, and we make a law against a symptom of the problem. We're slowly whittling down our own humanness with bureaucratic red tape, chaining our own souls to sins that haven't happened, destroying others freedom of expression because someone had a problem and couldn't or didn't get help. 
We're raising our children in competition and greed and hate and mistrust, and we wonder why crime happens. We destroy people's lives, and we wonder why they go to schools and malls and parking lots to kill other people and themselves. We're destroying the Earth's resources and we wonder why people steal and cheat and destroy the Earth further. We won't love, and we wonder why other people hate. We won't accept, and we wonder why no one will accept us. We hold ourselves apart, and we wonder why we can't come together.