"In reality, we are living in a profoundly sick dystopia that is built on a foundation of human corpses and fueled by an endless river of human blood. Our news media are propaganda services, our entertainment is brainwashing, and our mainstream culture is social engineering, all built to keep us turning the gears of a vast globe-dominating empire"... That's exactly how I feel! Is anyone out there feeling the same? How do you cope with it? I mean how do you rationalize it to stand up in the morning and go to work or to tell your children everything is OK and their future is radiant?
I mean - hasn't this genocide of Palestinians spelled it all out in clear terms for us all? All we have is talk from the all these so-called leaders of the Free World (but no real action) - while there is a continuing - clear as day massacre taking place of unarmed civilians and children - their entire public infrastructure being destroyed ... How else can we call this other than an actual dystopia we're all witness too right now? And how revealing is the extent of these genocidal abusers who are in power right now - and are not answering to the values of a humanitarian "free" society, but rather, are psychopathic killers (and torturers) on a mass scale - and pretend they're doing it for world security - when what it's really about is to feed an out-of-control MIC and power hungry deep state - and their own psychopathic hegemonic control fantasies.
I don't think I am doing very well at keeping going on. A friend came over the other day and neither of us could stop crying over Palestine and anger and frustration.
I'm not gonna "like" this, because I don't like what you are feeling right now. I see and feel very strongly about these same things, but it only makes me more determined than ever to stop them MF'ers. We need everyone who sees what's going on to be part of figuring out what is going work. Don't go letting them get you down (and out). That's working for them, not against them!
It wasn't meant as an insult, but as encouragement. Please forgive this old lady who is older than you. You are just a kid. (Just kidding.) We do need each other.
Me, it was the Vietnamese war, after seeing the picture of the little girl with napalm on her back running down the road screaming. It was enlarged to nearly lifesize and displayed on 5th Ave by war protestors.
I got kicked off a social media platform for showing that picture once to get people to stop advocating for more wars. That picture has haunted me my whole life as a kid when I first saw it. The dawning on me how people can be that cruel to start wars my innocence was destroyed ... And today it's been aviserated.
I am feeling as devastated. And hopeless.. And profoundly disgusted with my fellow man to the point of hoping we do go extinct.
Yes, I know what you mean. I have seen so many little kids in Gaza(photos) with bleeding wounds and one I remember is a little girl with what looks to be bruises/scars around her eyes. It’s gut wrenching to see this. All of this could end with just one phone call from Genocide Joe to Butcher Bibi to say no more money, weapons to Israhell, NO MORE!!😢☮️🇵🇸
Yes. It’s godawful what we have watched our government do. Not only bombing and torturing and burning but now starving— all in the name of FREEDOM, is just gutting. I get into despair too, wishing for the species to go extinct but then I look around at all the decent people, the ones demonstrating or sending money, the doctors and nurses working in Gaza, sometimes at the cost of their lives, the aide workers trying to get those trucks thru. The Houthis fighting back in their little rubber boats and rocking the economic world while they do it. Three of the “5 Eyes” finally finding a backbone and calling for ceasefire, and I’m amazed at how much good there is in the world. I used to think it was Pollyanna to look for the good but now I see it as my duty, in honor of the Gazans and all they’re suffering to take down the Great Satan and the mini-me Satan. And I send what I can to UNRWA. It ain’t much but it keeps me from letting my government steal my soul.
Plus, Ireland just gave $21 million to UNRWA so there ARE decent people in the West. Plus Clare Daly, Ireland’s EU minister is singeing the backsides of the neo liberal countries ignoring Gaza with a moral conscience I wish we could generate here.
Yes, the first I felt hopeless, sitting on school bleachers not going to class hearing student council members speak about what we could do to stop the war in middle school. The Iraq/Afghanistan war as an adult was brain-numbing that so few people could see through the lies. With the u.s. monster fighting to stay alive and relevant nothing that happens now will shock me.
I know exactly how you feel Gpcus, since I feel it too and am grappling with the same questions that you are.
>>"How do you cope with it? I mean how do you rationalize it to stand up in the morning and go to work or to tell your children everything is OK and their future is radiant?"
What seems to be helping me (though I'm not totally sure):
(1) Anti-depressants
(2) No TV or MSM news sources
(3) Music (playing the piano for me)
(4) some physical exercise
Unfortunately, none of the above strategies have been enough to help me deal emotionally with the ongoing live-streamed Genocide taking place in Gaza. If you do find something that works for you, please do let me know as I seem to be in the same boat as you.
We know it's way worse than we can even imagine. I avoid dwelling too long on some videos. I keep the sound off and don't even look at some. Instagram is my only video source. Still I have cried. I need to know what's really happening, but for my own sanity I can't spend too much time there. I post and repost about it all on Instagram. If enough people would do it, a national strike on work and buying might make a difference.
Chang, I think you are playing with fire using antidepressants, which contain chemicals alien to human biology and genomes, and produce side effects which have their own side effects. If what’s going on somewhere else is wrecking you and your ability to work and father your children, perhaps you should turn off forums like this one as well? For your distress bleeds into your children, who have not yet being affected by the world as you have, they still are empaths, they pick up on, feel what is going on in you. Looking back from 81 years on this planet, I see lots of how I was that my children endured because I was wrapped up in my own dramas and agenda. I worry today for them and their children in a country, America, going to hell, I think. And unable to do lots of things I once did, some because I had to, some because I wanted to, I spend a lot of time online, which saves me from talking a lot more to myself than I already do. Your children need you a lot more now, than they will ten years from now.
I've had a great deal of experience with adults who were severely abused in childhood, and it looks to me that Caitlin and most of her readers who comment under her Gaza posts were severely abused in childhood and are in denial about how abusive their parents were. They emotionally identify with the dead, wounded and oppressed, shellshocked, depressed, starving, displaced people of Gaza and are not able to see their parents and Hamas psychologically are one and the same, pretending love and caring but giving them just the opposite.
I give Hamas and Israel equal credit for the mayhem in Gaza. Hamas imbedded itself within and underneath civilians, making it certain that many civilians would be killed and wounded and displaced and experience diaspora if Israel came to Gaza to fight Hamas, and that the October 7, 2023 raid in Israel was clever bait Hamas hoped would provoke Israel to do precisely what then did in Gaza, which turned Israel into a pariah state likened to Nazi German, supported by America. Instead of defending the people of Gaza, Hamas did the opposite.
"turned Israel into a pariah state likened to Nazi German, supported by America" - Israel was that all along and Hamas attack certainly brought it up to the surface so it's very difficult to no longer pay attention to.
That Israel is and has been a Nazi state from its inception - read history. I believe you've been provided with authors and books already.
Your analysis of Caitlin and her audience is weak, by the way. People who do psychological work like you said you did, often tend to subsequently overestimate their psychic powers.
I have psychic abilities, but that is not what this is about. Hamas was supposed to protect the people of Gaza from Israel, in Gaza. Hamas did just the opposite by provoking Israel to attack Gaza and then fighting to defend Hamas. I think anyone who cannot see that needs counseling. I think anyone who sees it, but doesn’t acknowledge it, will be visited by Lady Karma sooner or later, antdthey may or may not connect the dots.
I do chanting with Krishna Das on utube or Spotify!! it creates warmth and compassion as well as strength through self knowledge that helps in the struggle with the vast delusions of the ruling elites.
This may piss you off but I heard in meditation this morning that I needed to pray for Israel. And yes, I’m like wha?!?!?! But on reflection, I can see that my feelings about Israel are only adding to the miasma of dis-grace that surrounds the Gaza crisis. That my lack of grace towards the “perpetrators” increases their negative energy and negative energy is what we need to stop. I KNOW it sounds too woo-woo for words but that’s what I heard in my thoughts and that’s what I’m going to do, even if I don’t mean it—until I do mean it. Can’t be any worse than being debilitated by grief as I am now. Sometimes I can hardly breathe.
You're right - something like that would indeed piss me off. I pray for Zionism to not exist. I pray for Israel in its current incarnation to not exist. I would rather pray for a million other things. In fact, I think praying for the Palestinians and praying against the Israelis sounds pretty cathartic to me. (Then again, I am an athiest - and I don't think my athiest God is likely to listen to my prayers 😃)
🤗. Ya. Exactly. And I’ve been wish/praying like you do for weeks now. But I do believe in dark matter and in dark energy, and they seem to represent principles of reality that I can’t even imagine. So I’m willing to allow as how the I Ching might have a point when it says “do not do evil the courtesy of fighting it blow for blow, for it only thinks of weapons. Instead, make energetic progress in the good.” It’s entirely possible in a universe so full of strange and confusing stuff, that GOOD is an energy that actually accomplishes what we want. Guess I’ll see when I croak! 😁😆
but I say unto you, Love your enemies, and pray for them that persecute you; that ye may be sons of your Father who is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.
Ya—this is the kind of crap that makes me NOT want to pray for Israel. This is Jehovah’s book. Jehovah, the god the Israelites made up, the guy who needed the sacrifice of his own son before he could accept humanity as being is no better than he made us, the guy who decided the Jews were special and “gave” them Israel. I wouldn’t anymore follow his advice than I’d fuck a duck.
I totally agree with you! These “ leaders” are deluded and insane and raise their young in their own madness - sometimes the only hope for the country is our compassion, understanding and prayers for their enlightenment. Also many Israelies are part of the left wing kibbutz movement and trying to live more socialist lives. They love the Palestinians , have many friends and try to change the dynamics of the state. Most Israelis do not support Neten Yalu or the other far right wing crazies and have been battling with them in demos and vigils in the streets! They as well as the crazies need all our strength and compassion to Wake Up!!!
Well said!!! And really, when we pull heads out, blaming Israel is not the point. It’s AIPAC and all the goy in the US taking their money that is to blame. Israel couldn’t bomb for 10 minutes without us sending them the bombs and planes to do it with. But is there a single march on Washington about this? Does anyone pointing fingers here care to do a sit-in there? I wonder how many are even calling the Corpse in the White House? Mostly what I see here is “o I’m so confused, it’s so hard, it won’t do any good. So I’ll just blame Judaism.” Wake up indeed.
maybe just try to live up to your ideals on your own personal scale? try to be the difference, even if it seems completely insignificant, maybe that will inspire someone around you or maybe it will sooth your conscience a bit therefore leaving you with a tiny bit more of strength not consumed by idle despair/that i totally understand and feel sometimes too/.
When I do watch nature I get a wave of melancholic sadness at how much we destroy it and are squandering our great potential as a species. And when I try and get people to see its their own deeper profoundly unhealthy psychology at the core of why that is, they attack me for it.
Yep, I know what you mean. I’ve spent my life trying to spread a humane analysis— from Civil rights to anti-war to women’s rights and gay rights and Native Rights to the rights of Mother Earth to 911 was an inside job and Bush and Chaney war criminals, and most usually got back negative responses. Then I got sick and had to heal myself and found a way to do it that meant not so much changing others as looking at and changing myself and how I reject the Good. It’s there, I just have to search it out. It’s incredibly difficult but well worth it. homeopathics Homeopathy helped immensely. That and acupuncture and yoga. I’m only just now trying to do meditation—incredibly hard for my race brain. And knowing that there is a force for good in the universe and I need to cooperate with it.
How about trying to understand people's reaction to your attempts on correcting them? Use your empathy. Don't you feel attacked when someone go against your views, your perspective? Don't you try to defend yourself? Why would they be so much different that you? No one likes to be criticized, criticism is perceived as an attack, it's that natural logos that tells you to automatically activate defense rather than examine yourself or validity of your claims/arguments/opinions.
Sure it is crucial to distinguish an honest question from an attempt to hurt and defeat the other. It's sad to see the world of human/and not only human/ social interaction as an ultimately pointless competition of pety egotistic interests that lead to universal war and destruction.
I guess all we have are these rare moments of happiness, that bliss which comes from being struck by the beauty or intricacy of life/nature. Antideps help, imo.
Surely it is better to work to change the awful circumstances of life than to simply desensitize oneself to these circumstances. It would be monstrous to imply that the solution to e.g. palestinians' suffering is to medicate them with some soma/?/ in order to make them just allright with their situation. Same as it would outrageous to suggest that all the auschwitz prisoners needed was prozac, paracetamol, a bit of coke and maybe some xanax so they could get some good sleep :D
If watching nature is just one more thing that brings you down, than maybe reading or watching some thought provoking stuff? I met some kindred souls among writers and that was and still often is, my last resort when i feel painfully alienated from society.
The only time you can be insulted by a critique is if you resonate with its truth..If people lie about you there's no insult..the problem is you all want a "reputation" because that translates to survival in the group tribe or cult..
I get that humans can't exist in a vacume, that we all have to relie on each other for basic needs but the way people are and act now I rather not interact with them at all..drop the package off on the porch and fuck off.
I'm kidding ..I actual like people and like experiencing new personalities one on one,,.usually they are decent folk,,,but in groups they become tribal and ugly,,,more than a few people in a group and it all comes out. Rivalry and peacocking to strut around as king of some hill. You can wax away at your own Pollyanna visions as a means of head in the clouds ignorance like cancer devoid of its ability to recognize its host is dying all you want but that ignorance will be your own downfall.
Does it translate into 'the only time you can feel attacked is if you resonate with it truth'?
And you attacked me! hey world come and see what a horrible person chaz is, he/she attacks me every single time I kindly try to help them', poor me, poor me poor me 😭😭😭😭😭
I also find it interesting that as soon as any of you feel slightly chalanged you go into fits of condecending behavior patterns and mocking. You took it personal not I...It's so easy for you people to feel slighted and triggered, so if I used the word we instead of you..maybe that would have been a safer space for you..my apologies
The problem is you think your advice is help from some position of superiority ... Did you resonate with the critique too much? If it did not apply to you then why be upset? Triggered?
"In reality, we are living in a profoundly sick dystopia that is built on a foundation of human corpses and fueled by an endless river of human blood. Our news media are propaganda services, our entertainment is brainwashing, and our mainstream culture is social engineering, all built to keep us turning the gears of a vast globe-dominating empire"... That's exactly how I feel! Is anyone out there feeling the same? How do you cope with it? I mean how do you rationalize it to stand up in the morning and go to work or to tell your children everything is OK and their future is radiant?
I mean - hasn't this genocide of Palestinians spelled it all out in clear terms for us all? All we have is talk from the all these so-called leaders of the Free World (but no real action) - while there is a continuing - clear as day massacre taking place of unarmed civilians and children - their entire public infrastructure being destroyed ... How else can we call this other than an actual dystopia we're all witness too right now? And how revealing is the extent of these genocidal abusers who are in power right now - and are not answering to the values of a humanitarian "free" society, but rather, are psychopathic killers (and torturers) on a mass scale - and pretend they're doing it for world security - when what it's really about is to feed an out-of-control MIC and power hungry deep state - and their own psychopathic hegemonic control fantasies.
I don't think I am doing very well at keeping going on. A friend came over the other day and neither of us could stop crying over Palestine and anger and frustration.
Just feel so depressed and helpless.
Never have felt so helpless as now.
I'm not gonna "like" this, because I don't like what you are feeling right now. I see and feel very strongly about these same things, but it only makes me more determined than ever to stop them MF'ers. We need everyone who sees what's going on to be part of figuring out what is going work. Don't go letting them get you down (and out). That's working for them, not against them!
Joy. I think you need to consider that SOME people (like me) at age 74/5 with a history of depression SIMPLY cannot cope.
I have been living in 4 different countries for at least 10/23yrs and each one I have tried to do what is right.
I really object ...this is an insult.
At present here in France we are boycotting all Israeli food. Hundreds of dead Avocado's.
It wasn't meant as an insult, but as encouragement. Please forgive this old lady who is older than you. You are just a kid. (Just kidding.) We do need each other.
f course we do. All is OK
I am with you. I don't think I have ever felt this helpless since the Iraq war.
Me, it was the Vietnamese war, after seeing the picture of the little girl with napalm on her back running down the road screaming. It was enlarged to nearly lifesize and displayed on 5th Ave by war protestors.
I got kicked off a social media platform for showing that picture once to get people to stop advocating for more wars. That picture has haunted me my whole life as a kid when I first saw it. The dawning on me how people can be that cruel to start wars my innocence was destroyed ... And today it's been aviserated.
I am feeling as devastated. And hopeless.. And profoundly disgusted with my fellow man to the point of hoping we do go extinct.
Yes, I know what you mean. I have seen so many little kids in Gaza(photos) with bleeding wounds and one I remember is a little girl with what looks to be bruises/scars around her eyes. It’s gut wrenching to see this. All of this could end with just one phone call from Genocide Joe to Butcher Bibi to say no more money, weapons to Israhell, NO MORE!!😢☮️🇵🇸
Yes. It’s godawful what we have watched our government do. Not only bombing and torturing and burning but now starving— all in the name of FREEDOM, is just gutting. I get into despair too, wishing for the species to go extinct but then I look around at all the decent people, the ones demonstrating or sending money, the doctors and nurses working in Gaza, sometimes at the cost of their lives, the aide workers trying to get those trucks thru. The Houthis fighting back in their little rubber boats and rocking the economic world while they do it. Three of the “5 Eyes” finally finding a backbone and calling for ceasefire, and I’m amazed at how much good there is in the world. I used to think it was Pollyanna to look for the good but now I see it as my duty, in honor of the Gazans and all they’re suffering to take down the Great Satan and the mini-me Satan. And I send what I can to UNRWA. It ain’t much but it keeps me from letting my government steal my soul.
Plus, Ireland just gave $21 million to UNRWA so there ARE decent people in the West. Plus Clare Daly, Ireland’s EU minister is singeing the backsides of the neo liberal countries ignoring Gaza with a moral conscience I wish we could generate here.
Yes, the first I felt hopeless, sitting on school bleachers not going to class hearing student council members speak about what we could do to stop the war in middle school. The Iraq/Afghanistan war as an adult was brain-numbing that so few people could see through the lies. With the u.s. monster fighting to stay alive and relevant nothing that happens now will shock me.
I know exactly how you feel Gpcus, since I feel it too and am grappling with the same questions that you are.
>>"How do you cope with it? I mean how do you rationalize it to stand up in the morning and go to work or to tell your children everything is OK and their future is radiant?"
What seems to be helping me (though I'm not totally sure):
(1) Anti-depressants
(2) No TV or MSM news sources
(3) Music (playing the piano for me)
(4) some physical exercise
Unfortunately, none of the above strategies have been enough to help me deal emotionally with the ongoing live-streamed Genocide taking place in Gaza. If you do find something that works for you, please do let me know as I seem to be in the same boat as you.
We know it's way worse than we can even imagine. I avoid dwelling too long on some videos. I keep the sound off and don't even look at some. Instagram is my only video source. Still I have cried. I need to know what's really happening, but for my own sanity I can't spend too much time there. I post and repost about it all on Instagram. If enough people would do it, a national strike on work and buying might make a difference.
Chang, I think you are playing with fire using antidepressants, which contain chemicals alien to human biology and genomes, and produce side effects which have their own side effects. If what’s going on somewhere else is wrecking you and your ability to work and father your children, perhaps you should turn off forums like this one as well? For your distress bleeds into your children, who have not yet being affected by the world as you have, they still are empaths, they pick up on, feel what is going on in you. Looking back from 81 years on this planet, I see lots of how I was that my children endured because I was wrapped up in my own dramas and agenda. I worry today for them and their children in a country, America, going to hell, I think. And unable to do lots of things I once did, some because I had to, some because I wanted to, I spend a lot of time online, which saves me from talking a lot more to myself than I already do. Your children need you a lot more now, than they will ten years from now.
You forgot plastic smiles. The first thing I'm thinking when I see absent, moronic smiles void of any context - someone is "bigging" themselves up.
One thing good about covid was it wiped them off people's faces. Some continued doing it while masked and that looked even weirder.
You need a rest, "Sloan". I think I already mentioned that elsewhere.
I've had a great deal of experience with adults who were severely abused in childhood, and it looks to me that Caitlin and most of her readers who comment under her Gaza posts were severely abused in childhood and are in denial about how abusive their parents were. They emotionally identify with the dead, wounded and oppressed, shellshocked, depressed, starving, displaced people of Gaza and are not able to see their parents and Hamas psychologically are one and the same, pretending love and caring but giving them just the opposite.
I give Hamas and Israel equal credit for the mayhem in Gaza. Hamas imbedded itself within and underneath civilians, making it certain that many civilians would be killed and wounded and displaced and experience diaspora if Israel came to Gaza to fight Hamas, and that the October 7, 2023 raid in Israel was clever bait Hamas hoped would provoke Israel to do precisely what then did in Gaza, which turned Israel into a pariah state likened to Nazi German, supported by America. Instead of defending the people of Gaza, Hamas did the opposite.
"turned Israel into a pariah state likened to Nazi German, supported by America" - Israel was that all along and Hamas attack certainly brought it up to the surface so it's very difficult to no longer pay attention to.
That Israel is and has been a Nazi state from its inception - read history. I believe you've been provided with authors and books already.
Your analysis of Caitlin and her audience is weak, by the way. People who do psychological work like you said you did, often tend to subsequently overestimate their psychic powers.
I have psychic abilities, but that is not what this is about. Hamas was supposed to protect the people of Gaza from Israel, in Gaza. Hamas did just the opposite by provoking Israel to attack Gaza and then fighting to defend Hamas. I think anyone who cannot see that needs counseling. I think anyone who sees it, but doesn’t acknowledge it, will be visited by Lady Karma sooner or later, antdthey may or may not connect the dots.
I do chanting with Krishna Das on utube or Spotify!! it creates warmth and compassion as well as strength through self knowledge that helps in the struggle with the vast delusions of the ruling elites.
🙏
This may piss you off but I heard in meditation this morning that I needed to pray for Israel. And yes, I’m like wha?!?!?! But on reflection, I can see that my feelings about Israel are only adding to the miasma of dis-grace that surrounds the Gaza crisis. That my lack of grace towards the “perpetrators” increases their negative energy and negative energy is what we need to stop. I KNOW it sounds too woo-woo for words but that’s what I heard in my thoughts and that’s what I’m going to do, even if I don’t mean it—until I do mean it. Can’t be any worse than being debilitated by grief as I am now. Sometimes I can hardly breathe.
You're right - something like that would indeed piss me off. I pray for Zionism to not exist. I pray for Israel in its current incarnation to not exist. I would rather pray for a million other things. In fact, I think praying for the Palestinians and praying against the Israelis sounds pretty cathartic to me. (Then again, I am an athiest - and I don't think my athiest God is likely to listen to my prayers 😃)
🤗. Ya. Exactly. And I’ve been wish/praying like you do for weeks now. But I do believe in dark matter and in dark energy, and they seem to represent principles of reality that I can’t even imagine. So I’m willing to allow as how the I Ching might have a point when it says “do not do evil the courtesy of fighting it blow for blow, for it only thinks of weapons. Instead, make energetic progress in the good.” It’s entirely possible in a universe so full of strange and confusing stuff, that GOOD is an energy that actually accomplishes what we want. Guess I’ll see when I croak! 😁😆
Matthew 5:44-45 American Standard Version (ASV)
but I say unto you, Love your enemies, and pray for them that persecute you; that ye may be sons of your Father who is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.
Ya—this is the kind of crap that makes me NOT want to pray for Israel. This is Jehovah’s book. Jehovah, the god the Israelites made up, the guy who needed the sacrifice of his own son before he could accept humanity as being is no better than he made us, the guy who decided the Jews were special and “gave” them Israel. I wouldn’t anymore follow his advice than I’d fuck a duck.
Ps—plus all the things you do. 🤗🙏
I totally agree with you! These “ leaders” are deluded and insane and raise their young in their own madness - sometimes the only hope for the country is our compassion, understanding and prayers for their enlightenment. Also many Israelies are part of the left wing kibbutz movement and trying to live more socialist lives. They love the Palestinians , have many friends and try to change the dynamics of the state. Most Israelis do not support Neten Yalu or the other far right wing crazies and have been battling with them in demos and vigils in the streets! They as well as the crazies need all our strength and compassion to Wake Up!!!
Well said!!! And really, when we pull heads out, blaming Israel is not the point. It’s AIPAC and all the goy in the US taking their money that is to blame. Israel couldn’t bomb for 10 minutes without us sending them the bombs and planes to do it with. But is there a single march on Washington about this? Does anyone pointing fingers here care to do a sit-in there? I wonder how many are even calling the Corpse in the White House? Mostly what I see here is “o I’m so confused, it’s so hard, it won’t do any good. So I’ll just blame Judaism.” Wake up indeed.
maybe just try to live up to your ideals on your own personal scale? try to be the difference, even if it seems completely insignificant, maybe that will inspire someone around you or maybe it will sooth your conscience a bit therefore leaving you with a tiny bit more of strength not consumed by idle despair/that i totally understand and feel sometimes too/.
you can also watch nature.
When I do watch nature I get a wave of melancholic sadness at how much we destroy it and are squandering our great potential as a species. And when I try and get people to see its their own deeper profoundly unhealthy psychology at the core of why that is, they attack me for it.
Yep, I know what you mean. I’ve spent my life trying to spread a humane analysis— from Civil rights to anti-war to women’s rights and gay rights and Native Rights to the rights of Mother Earth to 911 was an inside job and Bush and Chaney war criminals, and most usually got back negative responses. Then I got sick and had to heal myself and found a way to do it that meant not so much changing others as looking at and changing myself and how I reject the Good. It’s there, I just have to search it out. It’s incredibly difficult but well worth it. homeopathics Homeopathy helped immensely. That and acupuncture and yoga. I’m only just now trying to do meditation—incredibly hard for my race brain. And knowing that there is a force for good in the universe and I need to cooperate with it.
How about trying to understand people's reaction to your attempts on correcting them? Use your empathy. Don't you feel attacked when someone go against your views, your perspective? Don't you try to defend yourself? Why would they be so much different that you? No one likes to be criticized, criticism is perceived as an attack, it's that natural logos that tells you to automatically activate defense rather than examine yourself or validity of your claims/arguments/opinions.
Sure it is crucial to distinguish an honest question from an attempt to hurt and defeat the other. It's sad to see the world of human/and not only human/ social interaction as an ultimately pointless competition of pety egotistic interests that lead to universal war and destruction.
I guess all we have are these rare moments of happiness, that bliss which comes from being struck by the beauty or intricacy of life/nature. Antideps help, imo.
Surely it is better to work to change the awful circumstances of life than to simply desensitize oneself to these circumstances. It would be monstrous to imply that the solution to e.g. palestinians' suffering is to medicate them with some soma/?/ in order to make them just allright with their situation. Same as it would outrageous to suggest that all the auschwitz prisoners needed was prozac, paracetamol, a bit of coke and maybe some xanax so they could get some good sleep :D
If watching nature is just one more thing that brings you down, than maybe reading or watching some thought provoking stuff? I met some kindred souls among writers and that was and still often is, my last resort when i feel painfully alienated from society.
The only time you can be insulted by a critique is if you resonate with its truth..If people lie about you there's no insult..the problem is you all want a "reputation" because that translates to survival in the group tribe or cult..
I get that humans can't exist in a vacume, that we all have to relie on each other for basic needs but the way people are and act now I rather not interact with them at all..drop the package off on the porch and fuck off.
I'm kidding ..I actual like people and like experiencing new personalities one on one,,.usually they are decent folk,,,but in groups they become tribal and ugly,,,more than a few people in a group and it all comes out. Rivalry and peacocking to strut around as king of some hill. You can wax away at your own Pollyanna visions as a means of head in the clouds ignorance like cancer devoid of its ability to recognize its host is dying all you want but that ignorance will be your own downfall.
Does it translate into 'the only time you can feel attacked is if you resonate with it truth'?
And you attacked me! hey world come and see what a horrible person chaz is, he/she attacks me every single time I kindly try to help them', poor me, poor me poor me 😭😭😭😭😭
;)
I also find it interesting that as soon as any of you feel slightly chalanged you go into fits of condecending behavior patterns and mocking. You took it personal not I...It's so easy for you people to feel slighted and triggered, so if I used the word we instead of you..maybe that would have been a safer space for you..my apologies
The problem is you think your advice is help from some position of superiority ... Did you resonate with the critique too much? If it did not apply to you then why be upset? Triggered?
If you feel attacked its on you...stop playing a victim
I meant it all in a general sense you took it personal
And maybe, say two Pledges of Allegiances
To who? Western Despots ?