mental revolution

 .

If we honestly care

about making change, we need

to commit to learn what can be

done, how, and do the work at the

level available.

Having tantrums is not meaningfully

making a difference.

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Have you considered that the person

you oppose may be perceiving from

a different point of view, which,

without scientific exploration of outcomes

based on each, may potentially be as

valid as yours -- or maybe the truth

is between, or somewhere else.

.

 

 

When conservatives (so-called)

have power, they don't offer unity.

They punish those with whom they

disagree or project as "not us"

and therefore Enemy.

Punishment is all they understand.

No questioning the costs of war,

large or small -- military weapons

their proof of strength.

 

.

 

 

You say children (strangers about whom

you have no real knowledge) need saving

from traffickers.  How many actual children

have you saved or helped in any way?

Traffickers mostly target children who have

no one to protect them -- runaways,

throwaways, alone and desperate.  These

kids are on the streets of most cities.

How are you helping them to get safe

places to go, people who care?

What are you doing that you, personally,

can do for them or children in your town

who are in need?

Or do you only like the idea of saving

children because it gives you friends,

a social bubble to protect you from

loneliness or powerlessness, to give

you a mythology to believe?

 

 

.

 

 

conspiracy theories as such are no more

dangerous than any fantasy -- and like any

fantasy they become a source of danger

when their fans so break from reality

that they are unconcerned with actual

social codes that seek to control violence

 

.

 

 

 

 

I have quite recently been starting to look into

the vagus nerve as an emotion moderator and

possible treatments for autoimmune

inflammatory disorders. 

I have been experimenting with those long, deep

breaths and a "become calm" mantra, and

becoming calmer, more focused and I guess saner.

 

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00044/full

 

 

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6189422/

 

 

 

https://buddhaweekly.com/science-center-vagus-nerve-meditation-highway-parasympathetic-nervous-system-meditation-works-body/

 

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a village raising a child, planning for agriculture,

sharing information and education,

dealing with disagreements and fights,

these are all governance

 

Government is not any particular model but

the ways we develop to live civilly in society.

 

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obviously these people have no idea how

this country is organized to be run, and don't

care because they don't want an organized

social responsibility but only attention and 

capitulation paid to their ad hoc tantrums

 

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1/25-28/21

stirring

  

 

How can we "ask for help" when

trust has become impossible.

No secure core of responsibility,

will to truth.  Poison fruit of amoral

post-modern tree.  So cynical, unwilling

to be alive, really feel, heal, grow.

 

 

 

Blatant disrespect doesn't come from

a place of strength, but bravado.

 

 

 

It's easier to remember what and how

when we understand why.

 

 

Humanity in all our complexity,

all our simplicity,

animals to preprogrammed machines.

 

 

 

mythology on the public stage for us all to experience as reality:

https://brewminate.com/maenads-the-raving-ones-of-the-ancient-greek-bacchanalia/

"The foundation myth is believed to have been reenacted every other year during the Agrionia. Here the women of Thebes were organized into three dance groups and rushed off to Mount Cithaeron with ritual cries of “to the mountain!” As “mad women,” they pursued and killed, perhaps by dismemberment (sparagmos), the ‘king’, possibly represented by a goat. The #maenads may have eaten the meat of the goat raw (omophagia) or sacrificed it to Dionysus. Eventually the women would be freed from the madness and return to Thebes and their usual lives, but for the time of the festival they would have had an intense ecstatic experience. The Agrionia was celebrated in several Greek cities, but especially in Boeotia. Each Boeotian city had its own distinct foundation myth for it, but the pattern was much the same: the arrival of Dionysus, resistance to him, flight of the women to a mountain, the killing of Dionysus’ persecutor, and eventual reconciliation with the god.”

 

 

 

I have recently (NY magic?) been experimenting with the mantra:  Become calm

It's not a command to gain calmness but to find myself as one with calmness.

 

 

 

1/20-21/21

Exhale

 Peruse, consume data impressions.

Swish them within to feed intuition.

 

 

 

If social reality is what we

agree to agree to, we are living in

different realities.

How can we coordinate?

 

 

 

Rather than hold back in fear of

what they might say, twisting our

words against us, tell the truth and

expose their lack of good faith.

 

 

 

Spoiled overgrown children having

a mass tantrum of ecstatic violence.[Sabian, Maenad?]

 

 

1/16-19/21

becoming

 Become calm

and see what occurs.

 

 

 

Reality has a liberal bias, or rather

today's so-called conservatives (unrecognizable

as such to people with traditional

conservative values) have an anti-reality bias.

 

 

 

the deficit boogeyman is a rightwing framing to give

talking points against pro-people policies which they

conveniently forget when they want a war or useful

pork to please their base

 

 

 

 

I admit to often framing arguments for policies

 I support as within conservative values on the theory

that conservatives would be more likely to agree --

however we have now been seeing that these people

are not conservatives and have no values beyond

power to torture those they don't like

(no matter their ignorant reasons)

 

 

 

Evil people doing evil for evil reasons,

making excuses for acts that can't be

excused by citing evil  myths.

 

 

 

I don't know what is,

what is real or pervading fantasy,

or what I will to be to fulfill

my spirit's fate.

Invading memories, causative chains

forged, chopped into phases, into

seasons of fractured days,

desperate nights, no tether or other,

to hear and listen, extend friendly ear,

sustained, clear peel.

 

 

 

There was a time.

There was a girl without fixed identity.

There was yearning,

not for sex or fame, but adventure.

So much out there

to touch, to understand or feel.

It's not about identity -- what does that

even mean?

It's the touch, the taste, the odor bound

emotions,

the mystic dance day by day.

Can I take the chance to tell you?

Can I trust you to be kind?  In touch,

mind to mind without fear or

competition?  There was a time I believed

in fellow man, or humanity

the wise.

 

 

 

It's not just an outlet we feel compelled

to by circumstance -- we come to hate,

feel rage justified by potent fantasy

of revenge.

 

 

 

"Free Speech" is apparently now code

for rightwing rhetoric.  On social media

it means:  applaud all of our talking points

or be mercilessly attacked.  Orwellian?

 

 

Covid masks are face condoms for preventing

breath-transmitted disease.

 

 

 

Caught up in the crowd, so warm.

Encompassing all rage and fear --

safe home violent mob,

carrying cloud

outside this wicked world

enclosed within.

 

 

 

Is Trump the embodiment of an

American God?

 

 

 

The essence of sin

is not badness, evil,

deserving of punishment.

The punishment is the sin --

separation from bliss.

Redemption is not restitution

but reclamation of soul wholeness

in eternal love, self-embodiment

of perfection.

 

 

 

Legal weed

Broadband TV

Heat/air conditioning to be

reasonably comfortable despite

the climate.

Enough food to keep from feeling

hungry.

Access to medical repair when ill.

A basic background to live our lives,

to find our roles, our voices.

To open wide lungs and minds,

make considered choices, self-defining.

 

 

 

1/9-13/21

advisory

 

Engage with art to inspire

what I desire to say, and how I

might say it.

 

Don't deny what you see because

others do (don't).  Trust your

eyes (but verify objectively).

 

 

It's not about not alienating potential

allies, but seeking and connecting with

people with similar values and goals

regardless of "identity."

 

 

You complainers, social agitators

without social conscience, uprising

(or saying you will) against governance

combatting a deadly, infectious disease

-- yes, I know, it's all a hoax that people

are gravely ill, dying but even the survivors

 often now face chronic serious conditions.

Yes, you suffer financially.  So get off your

lazy ass and find other means to get by.

No job was guaranteed to you for life.

People are always getting laid off in

economic downturns for that business.

Find other jobs,  get together with those

nearby to create community cooperatives

to keep everybody going.  Call/write your

representatives (federal and state) constantly,

demanding aid.  Apply for all the social services

you have a right to, join with groups who advocate

for what you need.  Stop wasting everybody's energy

in angry blaming and complaint.  Be useful, be

thoughtful, be better days.

 

 

1/7-8/21

bridging

 We learn to do what we have to do to be able to

do what we desire and need to do --

that is life.

 

 

 

 

 

Learning, not trying --

going through the process

to know how rather than

merely making attempts.

 

 

 

It’s not that caucasian Americans without means

are privileged – it’s that we are unfairly advantaged

in many areas of socio-economic life.

“Privilege always felt like the wrong word --

more to evoke outrage than to explain the situation.

 

 

 

People too willfully ignorant to take care

of themselves ought not be making policy.

 

 

 

that word "economy" -- I don't think it means

what they think it means

 

Our economy is just all the transactions, the trading,

manufacturing, farming, building, every socially

manifested thing we do to take care of ourselves

and express our values

 

 

 

Back to basics

Back to ancient fables,

blood rituals,

terrible fate, utter surrender,

in ecstatic frenzy,

because, because, because – not

a fragile, precious human --

we can only be

as we believe

we are allowed.

 

 

 

What is this shadow play

we call our lives? Not who, how, why.

those imply full-fleshed stories;

clasping hands, dilating eyes,

the skin that binds us as kin or kindness;

slaps and hugs – miraculous touch

bridging connection, physical and

essential metaphor.

 

 

 

 

 

12/28/20-1/4/21