I do my best to not allocate time and energy to diatribes and virtue signaling about topics over which I (and you) have little or no control. This is especially true for everything going on with Israel and Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023. For nearly seven months, frenzied exhibitionists have been making the George Floyd Cult™ of 2020 look like moderates.
I've seen the same basic patterns in my city's problems. There's an enormous performative aspect, and precious little contact with the underlying realities. Those realities are stark. They call the existing order into question all on their own; no spin needed. The "acceptable" responses have proved useless at best. The activist LARPing is painfully ridiculous and in many case actively contributes to making the stark realities much, much worse. Community level answers to this can be found, I believe, in E.F. Schumacher's work. But whatever people choose, it's important to step away from the mindfuck of the Current Thing.
"In a world dominated by parasites, it can be irresistibly intoxicating to imagine you’re at the vanguard of a long-awaited revolution. Still, it’s the same failed template with most of the same chants, songs, and signs."
Exactly right. Something 'new' has to come in from the ground up. Once enough of us get the ongoing manipulation through all these endless wars and divisions, and refuse to get snagged or pick a side, things will change. Thanks for the sane and humane voice, Mickey.
more divide & conquer
to distract from the goal of eliminating all carbon life regardless of race, religion, no discrimination in the butchery, different means same ends.
the toll from the euthanizing injection exceeds the sum of all wars, EVER (& the protesters are likely fully vaxxed & boosted to attend.)
I've seen the same basic patterns in my city's problems. There's an enormous performative aspect, and precious little contact with the underlying realities. Those realities are stark. They call the existing order into question all on their own; no spin needed. The "acceptable" responses have proved useless at best. The activist LARPing is painfully ridiculous and in many case actively contributes to making the stark realities much, much worse. Community level answers to this can be found, I believe, in E.F. Schumacher's work. But whatever people choose, it's important to step away from the mindfuck of the Current Thing.
No thought. As a pro-G*za protester which river and which sea are being referred to in "From the River to the Sea"....
I pray for peace, then try to live the peace I wish to see. ❤️ I’m not always successful, but I keep trying.
When choosing sides, take care not to choose genocides.
"In a world dominated by parasites, it can be irresistibly intoxicating to imagine you’re at the vanguard of a long-awaited revolution. Still, it’s the same failed template with most of the same chants, songs, and signs."
Exactly right. Something 'new' has to come in from the ground up. Once enough of us get the ongoing manipulation through all these endless wars and divisions, and refuse to get snagged or pick a side, things will change. Thanks for the sane and humane voice, Mickey.