Affluent comfort is security; freedom from care, anxiety, or doubt.

Compassion requires effort.

Effort, done properly, creates discomfort.

Thus affluent comfort rejects-refuses-repels compassion.

Affluent comfort is the realm of those with wealth and power.

Though a large majority of us do not live in the realm of wealth and power, a majority of us have been initiated into its hopeful pretense, and as initiates a majority of us have come to be comfortable within our servitude.

Thus our proximal comfort also rejects-refuses-repels compassion.

In our culture, comfort, affluent or proximal, has become the driving force for the majority.

The force of comfort, (an interesting juxtaposition), has always been a driver but the difference in recent decades is that technology makes attainment easier, so less effort is expended on improvement and progress. Less effort equates to more comfort and that in turn negatively impacts our ability to discover, to understand, to care.

To care, to want to right wrongs, to fight for Good, one must be rationally, actively angry and in turn one must listen for and learn from others’ rational anger.

Anger, justified or not, creates discomfort.

Compassion requires anger.

Anger comes from truthfulness.

Truthfulness requires effort.

Truthfulness creates discomfort.

It is a dilemma:

• I am not allowed to be truthful.
• I am not allowed to be angry.
• I am only allowed to work hard for myself or for the comfort of others.
• I am only allowed to be compassionate quietly, within my reach; and my reach is limited.

To choose compassion (even only within my individual realm) I must embrace truthfulness, anger, and effort, and I must consciously, consistently reject comfort.