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Snorting the Samsara
UnitedHealthcare CEO assassination speaks to the festering wounds of human misery and the imperative to aim better. Field notes on human belonging.
SAMSARA [saṃ-sā-ra]
(noun) : the indefinitely repeated cycles of birth, misery, and death caused by karma
It’s the biggest story of 2024 in terms of engagement: UnitedHealthcare CEO Assassinated on Manhattan Sidewalk.
And sure, most people are getting a good laugh from the comments to this story. Most people find their well of sympathy is completely parched from years of exhaustion in navigating a broken healthcare system, among other epic systemic failures. The peak of these domestic failures is the horror of watching our government send billions to the war chest of foreign states like Israel and Ukraine, while Americans suffering from natural disasters get a poxy $750. The financial guillotine that Americans are placed under is underscored by the madness of shifting morality, like a compass that decides where north is based on what is most convenient for it at the time. It’s nothing short of schizophrenic.
And yet, that is the status quo for leadership, whether we’re talking about the public or private sector. That is what we are being force-fed like a tortured prisoner in a gulag whose inquisitor believes his delusions because he speaks politely. It is the…
