We Are All Deeply Flawed Individuals
Both those that exclude and those who try to include are broken human beings. Like of all us, they have been indelibly stained by the iniquity of bias. No matter what detergent they use, they will never wipe those blemishes completely away. They can only manage these flaws, so they don’t spread.
 
Sometimes Exclusion Wins and Inclusion Loses
Sometimes the Thanos’s of the world win. Oftentimes, bigotry, hate, offensiveness and division reign victorious in a world of tribalism. You can see this phenomenon in how the avengers handle this difficult loss. They retreat into a world of their own blind spots and self-pity of alcoholism, self-hate, guilt, mismanaged payback and separation from their friends and family.
 
It Is OK to Doubt
Exclusion blocks our path to inclusion to a point where we cannot even recognize what connectedness looks like any more. We are knocked off our game to a point where we begin to accept the inevitability of the status quo. Our social change compass becomes disoriented. We become lost in a sea of inner criticism and terrorist self-talk.
 
Keep Looking for New Information
Even in their depleted states, some of the avengers never give up searching for a different reality. They discovered that maybe the Thanos’s of the world are not going to write the final chapter. They push themselves to be creative and innovative and even wrong by sweeping every square foot of their capabilities to defeat Thanos regardless of whether their competencies appeared conventional.
 
Many Are Called but Few Are Chosen
The avengers understand that the struggle for inclusion in an almost unchangeable world demands taking risks that will result in extreme sacrifice and loss in the form of disconnection from the past, getting off the well beaten path and creating a new road to a brighter tomorrow. They push themselves to get better. They find their inner champion voice and multiplying selves.
 
We Are Better Together
They never abandoned their core values of teamwork, togetherness and diversity. They understood that collectively they could beat Thanos. Every avenger brought a vital skill, capability, experience that like links in a chain, made their collective effort insurmountable.
 
At the end of the day, the avenger’s story is about the power we can find in our fallibilities. How we fall and get back up. How we cry and then wash our face with the tears. How we stumble only to find our balance later. How we suffer for the sake of inclusion in the knowledge that exclusion may win from time to time, but it will never have the last word.