DENIAL NOT JUST A RIVER IN EGYPT
Signs of denial from the above linked article:
You refuse to talk about the problem.
You find ways to justify your behavior.
You blame other people or outside forces for causing the problem.
You persist in a behavior despite negative consequences.
You promise to address the problem in the future.
You avoid thinking about the problem.
From VeryWellMind by Kendra Cherry
Scanning over the examples of denial in this linked article and how we can recognize them in the real world it is not difficult to see we are living in a time of great denial. I am sure you as readers will have many examples of the way this denial affects all of us. It is so extreme in fact that we who don’t shield ourselves in the comfort of denial have come to seriously worry over the mental health of our fellow citizens, friends and family who do.
Life As Per Usual Is Not Possible
I find it impossible to go on as usual in the midst of this. I believe most thinking, feeling human beings do also. It would not be natural to go on as usual. Of course even when dealing with grief we put one foot in front of the other and go on. With the help of others it is the brave thing we do in the face of death and destruction.
But there comes a time when we must dedicate ourselves to speak more forcefully about it. Especially when the ignoring of it is so impressive as to be overwhelming in the extreme. It is almost as if there had been a great worldwide disaster in which there were many thousands of injuries and fatalities. And as if this planetary disaster had been studiously ignored.
And particular when the ignoring of this time of great dying produces so many dark manipulations of reality among us. Weird things like the deliberate turning of common sense, logic and reason on their heads. We are most definitely not in Kansas anymore.
We live in a world of denial. If you know much about denial you understand that those suffering from it will believe almost anything other than face the truth. They will engage is such outlandish and strange behaviour as believing men can be women and women men. They can be induced to believe things like war is peace and peace war. Really there is no end to what they will do to prevent themselves from seeing what they fear most - the truth.
To be in this time of great dying - awake while walking among those in denial - is a destabilizing and destructive situation.
I refer here to the work of a fellow SubStack writer, Mark Crispin Miller, who has been steadfastly raising awareness about the specifics of this great dying since I have been writing here. I believe the best way to emerge from delusion is to face a steady stream of the actual facts. The facts are many but the clearest and most reliable reminders of the truth here are that many innocent people are dying unexpectedly.
IT is infinitely sad that so many are dying. It seems it would be sufficient to shroud the entire planet in mourning, to darken the brightest sunny day. But instead we go on in denial of what is actually happening.
Citizens Of The Planet Of Denial
This denial exacts a very high price. Denial of death means we cannot really live. By denying death we instead morbidly prevent ourselves from living.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/4000-mondays/202211/the-morbid-cost-denying-death
And right now we might rightfully call ourselves citizens of the planet of denial. We are so deeply into it that the most important functions of our world - our very survival - is threatened at very basic levels by denial. Everything from our access to healthy food, resources, air and water - our right to abundant health - to our right to a healthy and sustainable culture is denied.
The people we allow to speak for us are very very important. Important enough for us to understand who should never ever be allowed to speak.
https://www.youtube.com/live/QaIQaY8rtUs
https://www.youtube.com/live/1UHoiePQPLE
The Fourth Industrial Revolution = The Fourth Reich
For when we live under denial we well and truly deserve to have reality explained to us an eighth grader, as follows.
Thanks for linking to my color revolution post, comrade!
I so agree, on what we need to do - speak up! - and on MCM. Thanks, KW, I appreciate your efforts as well.