I do not get the fascination with using them. I understand they are very helpful in bringing awareness to a particular topic quickly. However once that has been achieved, then what?

I am also aware of the latest #me too campaign. The awareness of violence against women is important and this campaign is bringing it into the limelight once again, so it is seemingly a good thing. The issue for me is, if we are to be against violence, should it not be that we are against violence for all human beings whether they be male, female or a child? Why pigeon hole it as only an issue that affects women? If I am for women’s issues, does that mean I am against men, as men seem to be most often the perpetrators of violence against women?

Men versus women seem to dominate the political spectrum too. Political #hashtags were all the craze with the US Presidential campaign. Bernie had his #Feel the Bern, Trump had #Lock her up and #Crooked Hillary and Then there was the #Basket of deplorables. Hillary had # I’m with her. All this and I don’t quite see what was accomplished apart from each side getting further and further divided which I suppose could have been the plan all along?!

I feel the biggest and probably the strongest hashtag from last year was the #Black lives matter movement. I am in no way a statistician to be able to tell you whether police brutality disproportionately affects the black community. However I do think anything that divides us, is often used to control us. Brutality has been and is used as a form of control, and no matter who gets affected by it, they never forget it.

Speaking of brutality we had all the #PRAY FOR, and #Je suis, after each of the terrorist attacks. What after the prayers and the solidarity? We move on and yet for those who have had to bury a loved one or have been injured forever by it, they have to find someway to continue on. So what are these #hashtags meant to do? You post it and it feels good to acknowledge that you are on some level connected to their pain and suffering, yet are we?

Can we be really? If i say to you John’s wife or husband passed away, you may feel some distress and sadness, if they were a distant uncle. However if that were changed to your husband or wife has passed away, that would be a whole different picture, and that is because of these little words, ME and MINE divide me from YOU and YOURS.

I am not a fan of anything that divides us and puts us into a little boxes with a neat little labels on it. Why should we be? We are human beings, with souls that will continue on forever, long after our bodies die. We are as David Icke likes to say infinite consciousness having a human experience.

Division crumbles when consciousness rises!