"You also see how predictable people are when they are stuck in their reactive patterns. You can see that in our leaders. They are not surprising or inspired in any way at all; they are monotonously boring and beholden to the patterning of their psychological conditioning, and their behavior is predictable. Evil, yes, but also predictable."
Sociopaths see everything as a zero-sum no-holds-barred winner-takes-all game, so, yes, our rulers are predictable.
I teach Gen Zers and they are onto this whole idea that the empire is predictable. We had a convo about J. Edgar Hoover with more or less your premise that he was a wounded child with loads of power. I have to believe that laughing with others about the stupidity of the world when in full agreement chips away at its power bit by bit. I have been working on a memoiry thing called Writing about Boys where I show there is healing eventually in being a conscious witness to the matrix.
Well, Caitlin, you've come up with some doozies, but this really is a doozie-doozie:
"You can see that the monsters who rule our world aren’t so much monsters as just little kids with far too much power unconsciously acting out their defense mechanisms. The suffering they cause is real and horrifying, but at the root of it, they are humans playing out a very human pattern. In this context, it’s comprehensible. You’ve found similar things in yourself, so it’s not an alien threat which defies understanding."
Thanksgiving and Christmas [“keep Christ in Christmas”] are “Christian” festivals, yet even the most fervent “Christians” among you debase Jesus in this position, claiming holy justification (“the US is a Christian nation”) for the slaughter of “~1400 humans” “within 30 days”, most of the dead Christian and Catholic, yet brown, too brown, meaning not European or colonial Uncle Tom brown.
Thanks for this incredibly empowering, liberating and world healing post, Caitlin. When we heal we know how to respond to the world in a constructive and powerful way.
Caitlin, you are the most articulate, brilliant and emotionally intelligent person I have ever encountered. Thank you Tim for your wonderful narration of her words.
Fuck yeah! Free Palestine, and cancel Israel.
This is the synthesis I needed. Healing is an active process, and resisting evil (and complacency and helplessness) is part of it. Fuck yeah!
"You also see how predictable people are when they are stuck in their reactive patterns. You can see that in our leaders. They are not surprising or inspired in any way at all; they are monotonously boring and beholden to the patterning of their psychological conditioning, and their behavior is predictable. Evil, yes, but also predictable."
Sociopaths see everything as a zero-sum no-holds-barred winner-takes-all game, so, yes, our rulers are predictable.
I teach Gen Zers and they are onto this whole idea that the empire is predictable. We had a convo about J. Edgar Hoover with more or less your premise that he was a wounded child with loads of power. I have to believe that laughing with others about the stupidity of the world when in full agreement chips away at its power bit by bit. I have been working on a memoiry thing called Writing about Boys where I show there is healing eventually in being a conscious witness to the matrix.
“…a conscious witness to the matrix.” 💯
And once you see it, you can never unsee it! It happened to me a few years ago on my long walks. Mind blowing, and extremely emotional in a weird way.
Everything looks “different”.
Fuck yeah!! And free Palestine!
Well, Caitlin, you've come up with some doozies, but this really is a doozie-doozie:
"You can see that the monsters who rule our world aren’t so much monsters as just little kids with far too much power unconsciously acting out their defense mechanisms. The suffering they cause is real and horrifying, but at the root of it, they are humans playing out a very human pattern. In this context, it’s comprehensible. You’ve found similar things in yourself, so it’s not an alien threat which defies understanding."
Thank you.
Thank You Caitlin
Like Nero playng harp and watchig whewn Rome was in the fire
Thanksgiving and Christmas [“keep Christ in Christmas”] are “Christian” festivals, yet even the most fervent “Christians” among you debase Jesus in this position, claiming holy justification (“the US is a Christian nation”) for the slaughter of “~1400 humans” “within 30 days”, most of the dead Christian and Catholic, yet brown, too brown, meaning not European or colonial Uncle Tom brown.
https://griobhtha1.substack.com/p/x-rubicon-thanksgiving-and-christmas-3
Complementary to Caitlin's explanation, this just in: https://mariawirth.com/inner-stillness-in-outer-noise
Thanks for this incredibly empowering, liberating and world healing post, Caitlin. When we heal we know how to respond to the world in a constructive and powerful way.
Profound analysis! Thank you
Took me over 40 years to learn that lesson… thank you for the essay
never heard the Tao Te Ching explained this way—with such clear examples, and by a master who lives it fully, both in being and in doing
Caitlin, you are the most articulate, brilliant and emotionally intelligent person I have ever encountered. Thank you Tim for your wonderful narration of her words.
World on fire ... Beds Are Burning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejorQVy3m8E
(could not resist)