Championing the human spirit in dispiriting times
More and more, Newton’s third law makes sense in my volunteer life: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
For many of us, these are dispiriting times. Trade wars, trashing of environmental regulations, insulting of long-term allies, and validation of racist and crude behaviours emanating from our American neighbours aren’t the norm in the North American neighbourhood.
If old Isaac Newton’s thinking can be applied to the contemporary social realm, in every interaction between two objects, there are two forces at play and the size of the forces on the first object equals the size of the forces on the second. Taken spiritually, the forces of evil are equally countered by the forces of good.
There’s nothing new about this relationship of powers – it’s really the organizing principle of most of the world‘s religions. So when the heat gets turned up by the forces you oppose, it makes sense to redouble your efforts in opposition.