To me the highest degree of consciousness that I can inhabit at any particular moment is opting for humanity when my senses are all bracing for pain. I was ordered by ultimatum to attend school and get good grades...by any means necessary. Then I was presented with what was called “reality.” Get a job or live in the street...no pressure. Along the paths upon which we all find ourselves, if we are lucky, there will be visceral reminders that personal conduct and integrity are the only markers of the self that resonate with the vast universe. Sacrificing humanity for any perceived material gain is what we are taught makes us “successful,” but why should we heed the words of successful predators, accomplished liars, or bitter pugilists?
The social system that prioritizes physical, material domination will, by definition, market in deception, and promote dysfunction. The way to counter the control of cretins, is to stop accommodating them. Call the liar a liar, name the traitor, speak the truth...no matter how much it costs you.
It’s obvious to me that the raucous supporters of DJT are comfortable with the mendacity, rationalize the blundering indifference for the deprived, enjoy the vitriol that he directs at figures they revile. They are in a pretend world where their emotions are sated and their fear of the other is coddled.
But they aren’t the only ones pretending. Our whole social system is a construct that offers no redress for injustice, punishment aye, social justice nay. I think many of the Trump supporters take as a given that the system is irredeemable, but don’t believe a new system will recognize their worthiness as well as the Flim-Flam Man. And the people who end up writing off Trump because he is a lying con man, are defacto defenders of a crooked system, unless they go all in and consciously acknowledge that the criminality of the enterprise dictates non-cooperation.
I have persuaded myself to cease consuming corporate news. It is really hard to separate spin and hyperbole and exaggerated emphasis from wholesale lying and misinformation. It isn’t worth it to me to try and parse the words. In the best of times and even in the pristine purest of intentions, truth is ever a precious product of professional communicants. We all have to be participants in propagating true stories.
To me the highest degree of consciousness that I can inhabit at any particular moment is opting for humanity when my senses are all bracing for pain. I was ordered by ultimatum to attend school and get good grades...by any means necessary. Then I was presented with what was called “reality.” Get a job or live in the street...no pressure. Along the paths upon which we all find ourselves, if we are lucky, there will be visceral reminders that personal conduct and integrity are the only markers of the self that resonate with the vast universe. Sacrificing humanity for any perceived material gain is what we are taught makes us “successful,” but why should we heed the words of successful predators, accomplished liars, or bitter pugilists?
The social system that prioritizes physical, material domination will, by definition, market in deception, and promote dysfunction. The way to counter the control of cretins, is to stop accommodating them. Call the liar a liar, name the traitor, speak the truth...no matter how much it costs you.
It’s obvious to me that the raucous supporters of DJT are comfortable with the mendacity, rationalize the blundering indifference for the deprived, enjoy the vitriol that he directs at figures they revile. They are in a pretend world where their emotions are sated and their fear of the other is coddled.
But they aren’t the only ones pretending. Our whole social system is a construct that offers no redress for injustice, punishment aye, social justice nay. I think many of the Trump supporters take as a given that the system is irredeemable, but don’t believe a new system will recognize their worthiness as well as the Flim-Flam Man. And the people who end up writing off Trump because he is a lying con man, are defacto defenders of a crooked system, unless they go all in and consciously acknowledge that the criminality of the enterprise dictates non-cooperation.
I have persuaded myself to cease consuming corporate news. It is really hard to separate spin and hyperbole and exaggerated emphasis from wholesale lying and misinformation. It isn’t worth it to me to try and parse the words. In the best of times and even in the pristine purest of intentions, truth is ever a precious product of professional communicants. We all have to be participants in propagating true stories.