As a believer in the "Butterfly Effect" (I think Ray Bradbury first wrote about that 60 years ago), I believe that if every American bought the PC game HOGWARTS LEGACY, the Woke society would collapse and become compost under our feet.
I only wish I had been old enough and politically aware enough to join Ginsberg, Mailer, and all the hippies who chanted, "Out, demons, out" at the Pentagon so many years ago.
I honestly believe that our thoughts are channeled into the aether and once they reach a critical mass, psychic changes occur in the world.
Sadly, we are living in a society where a large part of the population has no particular thoughts and another subset is so filled with anger that it is self-destructive.
But encouragingly if this is true then you have sent that energy into the universe and it is there. Although thankful for their efforts who needs to be part of a gang of hippies at the Pentagon?
And if that is true the higher energy will win out.
Having just watched the documentary TRAINWRECK: WOODSTOCK 1999, I would never allow myself to be stuck inside a mob of drunken and angry young people. In 1967? I'd have given almost anything to be part of that gang in Washington, DC. Sadly, the hallucinating True Believers were unable to levitate the Pentagon but a good time was had by all.
A friend of mine attended the 1968 Democratic Convention and enjoyed a peaceful evening listening to Country Joe and the Fish.
It was a much nicer world (despite the Vietnam War) back in the sixties.
But alternatively we might well trust our crowd of young people over the likes of the partners of the WEF? I will forever trust the people and the music. That they may be drunken and disorderly is understandable given the circumstances.
Imagine anger looks like this... your boundaries are violated your body awakens to protect you with passion and strength. This would be anger.
Many have had anger mirrored to them as something else, as being reactive in and loosing power to.
Anger in and of itself is powerful, strong and constructive.
It is 'our' relationship that is of issue.
We are made to feel, not select which feelings to have. All feelings, the words we have for them are in essence love. Our bodies loving and taking care of us.
When we vilify a feeling, we only give it a power by pushing it away. Making it something other than what it is. Loosing our own agency.
If we could learn this as a species it would be beautiful.
I do not hold out much hope. And yet I am always optimistic.
I have met people who feel they have demons inside them. Who feel they are intrinsically evil.
I would argue that what they feel is an internal very heavy weight of unhealed trauma and shadows they do not know how to speak to. Ask to come forward and be seen.
Agree when you speak of that immediate "evolutionary" anger which helps fuel our right actions.
I believe we all have a great deal of work to do on ourselves. I am not trying here to excuse anyone's personal responsibility. We are all traumatized here. How could we fail to be traumatized by this. But we each have different capacities to deal with trauma.
Agree all emotions are to be validated, felt and properly identified by the person who carries them. The price paid for not doing this is very high.
But unfortunately we don't learn as a species - at least not yet. We are each individuals and only if we understand interdependence are we truly a functioning part of a species.
Yes I don't believe so much in hope but in trust and yes important to be optimistic.
"We are all traumatized here. How could we fail to be traumatized by this. But we each have different capacities to deal with trauma."
And this is the piece I think many can't see. And why many cannot open their eyes to what is. It is truly traumatizing to try and hold what is happening.
And many are having earlier traumas compounded as well.
It is amazing that any of us are sane.
What people who cannot see are asked to see is horrifying and rests with letting go of a long held trust with those who are not worthy of trust.
Yes, true - holding onto sane things and the sanity we know in ourselves to be true is an achievement here. And yes many have closed themselves to the trauma. Whether it is too much for them to bear or because they just don't want to be bothered are further questions. But it feels like the descent of totalitarianism - because it is .
I had several a great grandfather and a great great grandfather (father and son) who fought in the civil war on different sides from Tennessee. Must have been some down and out arguments in that family.
I suppose the initial reaction by most who read Ms. Norton's essays rankle when we read that another trillion dollars has gone to Ukraine or that white men no longer need to apply for certain jobs. Many, like myself, become outraged when we see male athletes dominating women's sports (with the express approval of the Nuland/Rice/Obama/Soros administration). It is hard to remove yourself from those emotions. I suppose that is why the Dalai Lama is loved worldwide. If not the reincarnated Buddha, the man is definitely a saint. He sets the bar for our behavior.
I'm especially enjoying this piece AND the comments! Incredible people here. While reading this post, I immediately thought of my two fave quotes from TV show SCANDAL, they are as follows:
1. “You don't get to run. You're a gladiator. Gladiators don't run. They fight. They slay dragons. They wipe off the blood. They stitch up their wounds, and they live to fight another day. You don't get to run.”
2. “This. Is. War. There is no script. You can choose the battle, but if you send me out, I'm fighting my way. I don't play. I don't hide. I don't hold back or look for exits... and I sure as hell don't lean on the ropes and take it. I swing because that's me. That's who I am. That is how I gladiate.”
Show has a ton more of most excellent quotes. But these two have helped me considerably through my own hell, and this hell on earth we're up against.
I do believe in the “Butterfly Effect”. Trying to get a picture in Antarctica, I took my glove off. It blew to the front of the ship, I wasn’t allowed to retrieve it. So I had to asked a member of the crew to get it back, well it was retrieved. Most people said do not worry about it, it will end up in the bottom of the ocean. NOOO, I did not want to return and find all other continents changed. Good to know others get it, small changes do matter and Solzhenitsyn did know about power. Individuals are responsible for their own power and growth
Thank you so much. I am sustained by a great family . Without them I would be nowhere. The writing part depends on what the multiverse intends I think.
The Stålenhag book THE ELECTRIC STATE arrived yesterday, months before promised. I'll be buying his other books. He is like a cross between Salvadore Dali and HP Lovecraft.
I'll be forever figuratively scratching my head, as to how we take the utterances & demands, of the despotic, evil, tyrannical, so called elites; came to so much prominence, that their every utterance is taken as gospel & must be obeyed. Who bestowed that power on them?
Time for anyone who is truly awake, to inform everyone from the town council to the Highest seat of Government, wherever in the world they are. To sit up & protect us the people. Or vote them out of office.
Their evil tentacles need to hacked off. Remove humanity from their despotic, demonic embrace.
American Public needs a road map that they can read. We have been targeted, and now it is our turn to target those who have caused great harm. Guidance is lacking in agreeing on a course of action that all of us can utilize to stop the medical mafia agenda.
Yes we do need one. Right now it seems to be avoidance of all things medical. It is far more than medical fascism which needs to be stopped. But absolute noncompliance on several levels is a start.
Thank you KWN - that was a lot of work and a great deal of truth. I understand the dynamics because I am old enough to know the pre-new normal but we are getting there I feel. i will take time to watch the vids - excellent links.
As a believer in the "Butterfly Effect" (I think Ray Bradbury first wrote about that 60 years ago), I believe that if every American bought the PC game HOGWARTS LEGACY, the Woke society would collapse and become compost under our feet.
Very possible, lol! Those stories we tell ourselves.
I only wish I had been old enough and politically aware enough to join Ginsberg, Mailer, and all the hippies who chanted, "Out, demons, out" at the Pentagon so many years ago.
I honestly believe that our thoughts are channeled into the aether and once they reach a critical mass, psychic changes occur in the world.
Sadly, we are living in a society where a large part of the population has no particular thoughts and another subset is so filled with anger that it is self-destructive.
But encouragingly if this is true then you have sent that energy into the universe and it is there. Although thankful for their efforts who needs to be part of a gang of hippies at the Pentagon?
And if that is true the higher energy will win out.
Having just watched the documentary TRAINWRECK: WOODSTOCK 1999, I would never allow myself to be stuck inside a mob of drunken and angry young people. In 1967? I'd have given almost anything to be part of that gang in Washington, DC. Sadly, the hallucinating True Believers were unable to levitate the Pentagon but a good time was had by all.
A friend of mine attended the 1968 Democratic Convention and enjoyed a peaceful evening listening to Country Joe and the Fish.
It was a much nicer world (despite the Vietnam War) back in the sixties.
But alternatively we might well trust our crowd of young people over the likes of the partners of the WEF? I will forever trust the people and the music. That they may be drunken and disorderly is understandable given the circumstances.
Imagine anger looks like this... your boundaries are violated your body awakens to protect you with passion and strength. This would be anger.
Many have had anger mirrored to them as something else, as being reactive in and loosing power to.
Anger in and of itself is powerful, strong and constructive.
It is 'our' relationship that is of issue.
We are made to feel, not select which feelings to have. All feelings, the words we have for them are in essence love. Our bodies loving and taking care of us.
When we vilify a feeling, we only give it a power by pushing it away. Making it something other than what it is. Loosing our own agency.
If we could learn this as a species it would be beautiful.
I do not hold out much hope. And yet I am always optimistic.
I have met people who feel they have demons inside them. Who feel they are intrinsically evil.
I would argue that what they feel is an internal very heavy weight of unhealed trauma and shadows they do not know how to speak to. Ask to come forward and be seen.
Agree when you speak of that immediate "evolutionary" anger which helps fuel our right actions.
I believe we all have a great deal of work to do on ourselves. I am not trying here to excuse anyone's personal responsibility. We are all traumatized here. How could we fail to be traumatized by this. But we each have different capacities to deal with trauma.
Agree all emotions are to be validated, felt and properly identified by the person who carries them. The price paid for not doing this is very high.
But unfortunately we don't learn as a species - at least not yet. We are each individuals and only if we understand interdependence are we truly a functioning part of a species.
Yes I don't believe so much in hope but in trust and yes important to be optimistic.
"We are all traumatized here. How could we fail to be traumatized by this. But we each have different capacities to deal with trauma."
And this is the piece I think many can't see. And why many cannot open their eyes to what is. It is truly traumatizing to try and hold what is happening.
And many are having earlier traumas compounded as well.
It is amazing that any of us are sane.
What people who cannot see are asked to see is horrifying and rests with letting go of a long held trust with those who are not worthy of trust.
Yes, true - holding onto sane things and the sanity we know in ourselves to be true is an achievement here. And yes many have closed themselves to the trauma. Whether it is too much for them to bear or because they just don't want to be bothered are further questions. But it feels like the descent of totalitarianism - because it is .
I had several a great grandfather and a great great grandfather (father and son) who fought in the civil war on different sides from Tennessee. Must have been some down and out arguments in that family.
I suppose the initial reaction by most who read Ms. Norton's essays rankle when we read that another trillion dollars has gone to Ukraine or that white men no longer need to apply for certain jobs. Many, like myself, become outraged when we see male athletes dominating women's sports (with the express approval of the Nuland/Rice/Obama/Soros administration). It is hard to remove yourself from those emotions. I suppose that is why the Dalai Lama is loved worldwide. If not the reincarnated Buddha, the man is definitely a saint. He sets the bar for our behavior.
I'm especially enjoying this piece AND the comments! Incredible people here. While reading this post, I immediately thought of my two fave quotes from TV show SCANDAL, they are as follows:
1. “You don't get to run. You're a gladiator. Gladiators don't run. They fight. They slay dragons. They wipe off the blood. They stitch up their wounds, and they live to fight another day. You don't get to run.”
2. “This. Is. War. There is no script. You can choose the battle, but if you send me out, I'm fighting my way. I don't play. I don't hide. I don't hold back or look for exits... and I sure as hell don't lean on the ropes and take it. I swing because that's me. That's who I am. That is how I gladiate.”
Show has a ton more of most excellent quotes. But these two have helped me considerably through my own hell, and this hell on earth we're up against.
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There are a ton of great comments here. We are so fortunate to have so many great compatriots in these trenches. Warriors all.
Think I am more a Lord Of The Rings type but yes there are lots of great and inspiring films, books, music to help us find our way.
"Thou shall not pass."
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So true on all points
Thanks ❤️
Nice not to be completely alone in my perspective.
Thoughts create ripples in time. They matter.
I do believe in the “Butterfly Effect”. Trying to get a picture in Antarctica, I took my glove off. It blew to the front of the ship, I wasn’t allowed to retrieve it. So I had to asked a member of the crew to get it back, well it was retrieved. Most people said do not worry about it, it will end up in the bottom of the ocean. NOOO, I did not want to return and find all other continents changed. Good to know others get it, small changes do matter and Solzhenitsyn did know about power. Individuals are responsible for their own power and growth
Great comment thanks. My entire life has been about this butterfly effect, lol.
Then you have had a great life. And you are a great writer with many words left to jot down
Thank you so much. I am sustained by a great family . Without them I would be nowhere. The writing part depends on what the multiverse intends I think.
Is your power out? Has been out in Nashville for an hour.
No. We're good. But we're a long ways from Nashville.
Corruptible Electric State.lol.
The Stålenhag book THE ELECTRIC STATE arrived yesterday, months before promised. I'll be buying his other books. He is like a cross between Salvadore Dali and HP Lovecraft.
Epic!
Thank you KW.
I'll be forever figuratively scratching my head, as to how we take the utterances & demands, of the despotic, evil, tyrannical, so called elites; came to so much prominence, that their every utterance is taken as gospel & must be obeyed. Who bestowed that power on them?
Time for anyone who is truly awake, to inform everyone from the town council to the Highest seat of Government, wherever in the world they are. To sit up & protect us the people. Or vote them out of office.
Their evil tentacles need to hacked off. Remove humanity from their despotic, demonic embrace.
I am sincere trusting that is possible. It goes so much further than was possible to explore here.
American Public needs a road map that they can read. We have been targeted, and now it is our turn to target those who have caused great harm. Guidance is lacking in agreeing on a course of action that all of us can utilize to stop the medical mafia agenda.
Yes we do need one. Right now it seems to be avoidance of all things medical. It is far more than medical fascism which needs to be stopped. But absolute noncompliance on several levels is a start.
Another great article!
Thank you KWN - that was a lot of work and a great deal of truth. I understand the dynamics because I am old enough to know the pre-new normal but we are getting there I feel. i will take time to watch the vids - excellent links.
Thank you for reading. Hope you like the links.