Who stands to benefit from your beliefs?
Who stands to benefit from your support of their ideologies?
Who benefits from your anger?
Who benefits from your prejudices?
Who benefits from your fears?
Who monetizes your ignorance?
Who monetizes your attention?
Who profits from your time?
Who profits from your likes, comments, shares and re-posts?
Who profits from your engagements?
Who profits from your agreement?
Who gains your support by standing on the backs of others?
Who props you up to look down on who?
Who told you, that you, or your mother, or your father, or your child, is worth more than another’s?
Who reassured you, that some humans are not, in fact, humans?
Who exploits your sorrow?
Who profits from your grief?
Who told you you don’t make a difference?
Who told you your voice makes no sound?
Who told you lies and facts are decided by those who hold the pencil?
Who penalizes those who ask questions?
Who demonizes your right to say no?
Who demands complacency and cooperation?
Who is afraid you will stand up from the chair they instructed us all to sit in?
Who tires you out so you have no energy to fight, let alone stand?
Who taught you to freedom is within a barbed wire gated field?
Who taught you what love is?
Who taught you what forgiveness is?
Who taught you what mercy is?
Who stood to benefit from your definitions of these words?
Who taught you to quiet the voice inside yourself and accept what they told you?
Ask.
After you ask Who, ask Why.