I think a lot of reasonably decent people don't see what they can do about the things they recognize as evil. Making pious remarks about how we're all connected is not really going to do the trick, as we can see from our ongoing experience; whereas doing anything significant might well threaten one's personal well-being. Sadly, the usual response to the predicament is more moralization. I suppose that does enable some to get some satisfaction out of the situation.
Reasonably decent people can put a dent in "evil" by simply not supporting the organisations, corporations, and political leaders who are in support of said evil. It only takes a few minutes to burn off an email to your local Senator or Congressperson & tell them how you feel about the US supporting Israeli occupation (or whatever issue is rubbing you the wrong way). Tell them you won't be voting for them next time around.
Same can be said about corporations who support Zionism, or any other hot topic issue. Don't buy their products. Send a quick note to their customer service department about why you'll no longer be spending your money with them. Finally, talk to your friends, family members, co-workers about the issues that matter to you. Some will disagree, others will agree, still others maybe have no idea and may be appreciative of your insight.
I would also add that there are many hardworking organisations risking their lives to help the Palestinians. Or taking legal action to protect those speaking out against organized oppression attempting to silence them. They can use our support. Here are a few:
We have been sending donations to UNRWA, as a Palestinian friend of many years recommended, not because they are a perfect organization, but because they are there doing the work.
1. Don't buy a single Israeli product, until such time as apartheid is removed from Israel, the current Israeli Government are either in prison or in a box in the ground and the USA prostitutes are no longer funding the criminal state in the Eastern Mediterranean.
2. Stop using large corporations' services - buy coffee from a local independent, not a global US chain. Buy your fruit and vegetables away from big supermarkets (grow your own if you can).
3. Plant three trees in your local area, be they fruit/nut trees, trees adept at making your local environment's soil more healthy etc.
4. Refuse to vote for any political party that tolerates 'Friends of Israel' in its ranks of MPs. Make it quite clear to them all that this is non-negotiable, irrevocable and lifelong.
5. Avoid listening to all MSM propaganda, be that from ITV, BBC, Channel 4, CNN, Sky, MSN, any other number of security-service controlled outlets. Find your information from those that the cowardly wastrels would call 'terrorists', 'friends of terrorists', 'lefties/far right wingers', namely those that speak their truth without reference to any standing in parties of prostitution like the UK Labour- and Conservative Parties.
6. Be prepared to model holding 'victim groups' to account when they clearly behave corruptly or in a criminal manner. There can be no peace on earth whilst corruption can be practiced by Jews, Muslims, blacks, women, homosexuals, trans-sexuals, nor any other bunch of gaslighters.
7. Bring your children up to be free of prejudice. Educate them about the truth of the world and make them comfortable with the concept that most of the global media is there to make money, not educate children to be free of prejudice.
8. Remind your children that there is almost never one place on earth where horrors occur. Teach them about Idi Amin and Milton Obote in 1970s Uganda; about the Hutus and the Tutsis in Rwanda a generation later; about the British opium trade in China in the 19th century; about US genocides in Iraq, Indonesia, Libya in the past 60 years; about the worst episodes in Soviet- and Sino 20th century history; about German and Japanese atrocities leading up to- and during World War II. Bring them to understand that the cure for hatred is love and their contribution of love on earth is essential to global love winning over global hatred.
9. Share food your have grown with your neighbours; give them a bottle of apple juice you have made. I've yet to meet a human being that doesn't appreciate a neighbourly gesture like that.
10. Source your food, wherever possible, from ethical farmers, ethical growers, ethical marketing hubs.
I don't disagree with your analysis in general but would say that my parents certainly tried to live like this and my experience of growing up wasn't perfect at all ! Good people bent on changing the world can still be fooled by good propaganda eg my parents supported Franco in Spain and I have met others who are convinced that he could not have been a fascist dictator because the US backed him when they went to war with Nazi Germany and other fascist governments - therefore Franco MUST have been a good democrat !
My mother taught me to care about other people around the world in general, but she has that PEP thing going on - cares deeply about Native American people, but has a blind side when it comes to Palestinians, and honestly Muslims in general. Still, that basis in compassion is what led me to study languages and anthropology in college, which led to working in an international nonprofit and most importantly meeting my husband who is of a different culture, religion and nationality. I think parents can nurture the idea of compassion for the other even if they miss some important matters.
Well , isn't any current "government" just the public, "elected" face of the shy and hidden billionaires ??? ...🤔🤔🤔 How did they become billionaires ???
It's mostly consumer's money (for the so-called modern amenities and gadgets) and currently increasing government's contracts (for the electorate's and non aligned country's total submission by funneling tax-payer's money into the MIC) that made them billionaires ...
To defund them, the plebes should be ready to get out of their 24/7/365 cozy comfort-bubbles by simply refusing to consume 95% of currently available amenities and comfort-gadgets they think they are so dependent on . No need to list them up here, you well know what is included ...
Which is the %tage of people we can expect to jump in troubled, murky waters, becoming highly self-reliant and -responsible, fully sustainable, part of an egalitarian society with the decisive goal to participate in defunding billionaires in the long-run ??? ... 🤔🤔🤔
Only true off-gridders with a specific life- and community philosophy will do and are currently doing so. Let them multiply like bacteria. It won't happen but in very restricted form, regions and numbers. The vast majority simply cannot envision such a life, they are programmed for the nanny-state and freebies.
That’s how we remain powerless, because we have been conditioned and coerced In believing this lie. We have power individually but our strength is when we commit together to say this must stop and find ways to remove our consent our $ and our attention.
One of the smallest things I do in this regard is to wear a Palestine bike jersey on my almost daily bike rides. I had to look as far as Ali-Baba, a Chinese online shopping site. I got a couple for my sons, too , all for last Christmas.
If you hold an intention to help and to resist evil, it helps you see things that you can do.
Only one person has shouted something negative out of a car this year, and it was early, like March. I think more people on my residential 3 mile loop, particularly women, started looking in my face and smiling as I ride my laps.
I stand on the main corner in my city every week with a sign that says “Honk for a Ceasefire” and each week we are seeing more and more positive engagement. I get the occasional middle fingers and stern head shakes, but that number is very low compared to the people with their peace fingers out their windows. Keep the issue fresh in everyone’s awareness and continue to encourage people to act.
I wear a keffiyeh I ordered online wherever I go. If it inspires a dirty look from someone, I blow them a kiss 😁 even though my inclination is to pound them to sawdust 😉
I salute you even for that small act of rebellion against the machine. Today, with mass surveillance, and the ability for them to trump up charges against you, along with targeted harrassment - even the smallest act can bring unwanted attention to you. This is how we know we are increasingly living in a Totalitarian state: a state based on fear. One lives in constant personal insecurity. Human rights no longer really exist.
I think my perceptions are accurate. It is like a test of the world.
We have a lot of residents in the area from Asia, not only China and India, and some traditionally-dressed women with head coverings. One of these, who had never made eye contact in previous years, began smiling to my face, for instance.
I am a person who habitually looks people in the eye and smiles, noticing the people who never look, as much as those who appear conflicted about it, and those who sneak a peek just when I am passing by.
Because of the way I present, I see people who do sneak a furtive glance, and get a smile from me, get more open and start to see me farther away, and get ready to smile and wave.
"Being aware of the sound of a bell, does not mean that bell belongs to you. Likewise being aware of thoughts, does not mean the thoughts belong to you." ~Wu Hsin
Carl Jung often emphasized people have far less control over their thoughts and inner psyche than they believe they do. The unconscious has a depth not many suspect except to those who have actually tried to study it. Then you realize there is more going on below the surface of "awareness" than above.
I think a lot of reasonably decent people don't see what they can do about the things they recognize as evil. Making pious remarks about how we're all connected is not really going to do the trick, as we can see from our ongoing experience; whereas doing anything significant might well threaten one's personal well-being. Sadly, the usual response to the predicament is more moralization. I suppose that does enable some to get some satisfaction out of the situation.
Reasonably decent people can put a dent in "evil" by simply not supporting the organisations, corporations, and political leaders who are in support of said evil. It only takes a few minutes to burn off an email to your local Senator or Congressperson & tell them how you feel about the US supporting Israeli occupation (or whatever issue is rubbing you the wrong way). Tell them you won't be voting for them next time around.
Same can be said about corporations who support Zionism, or any other hot topic issue. Don't buy their products. Send a quick note to their customer service department about why you'll no longer be spending your money with them. Finally, talk to your friends, family members, co-workers about the issues that matter to you. Some will disagree, others will agree, still others maybe have no idea and may be appreciative of your insight.
I would also add that there are many hardworking organisations risking their lives to help the Palestinians. Or taking legal action to protect those speaking out against organized oppression attempting to silence them. They can use our support. Here are a few:
https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org
https://www.oxfam.org/en
https://palestinelegal.org/
https://ccrjustice.org/
We have been sending donations to UNRWA, as a Palestinian friend of many years recommended, not because they are a perfect organization, but because they are there doing the work.
Here's a list of practical things you can do:
1. Don't buy a single Israeli product, until such time as apartheid is removed from Israel, the current Israeli Government are either in prison or in a box in the ground and the USA prostitutes are no longer funding the criminal state in the Eastern Mediterranean.
2. Stop using large corporations' services - buy coffee from a local independent, not a global US chain. Buy your fruit and vegetables away from big supermarkets (grow your own if you can).
3. Plant three trees in your local area, be they fruit/nut trees, trees adept at making your local environment's soil more healthy etc.
4. Refuse to vote for any political party that tolerates 'Friends of Israel' in its ranks of MPs. Make it quite clear to them all that this is non-negotiable, irrevocable and lifelong.
5. Avoid listening to all MSM propaganda, be that from ITV, BBC, Channel 4, CNN, Sky, MSN, any other number of security-service controlled outlets. Find your information from those that the cowardly wastrels would call 'terrorists', 'friends of terrorists', 'lefties/far right wingers', namely those that speak their truth without reference to any standing in parties of prostitution like the UK Labour- and Conservative Parties.
6. Be prepared to model holding 'victim groups' to account when they clearly behave corruptly or in a criminal manner. There can be no peace on earth whilst corruption can be practiced by Jews, Muslims, blacks, women, homosexuals, trans-sexuals, nor any other bunch of gaslighters.
7. Bring your children up to be free of prejudice. Educate them about the truth of the world and make them comfortable with the concept that most of the global media is there to make money, not educate children to be free of prejudice.
8. Remind your children that there is almost never one place on earth where horrors occur. Teach them about Idi Amin and Milton Obote in 1970s Uganda; about the Hutus and the Tutsis in Rwanda a generation later; about the British opium trade in China in the 19th century; about US genocides in Iraq, Indonesia, Libya in the past 60 years; about the worst episodes in Soviet- and Sino 20th century history; about German and Japanese atrocities leading up to- and during World War II. Bring them to understand that the cure for hatred is love and their contribution of love on earth is essential to global love winning over global hatred.
9. Share food your have grown with your neighbours; give them a bottle of apple juice you have made. I've yet to meet a human being that doesn't appreciate a neighbourly gesture like that.
10. Source your food, wherever possible, from ethical farmers, ethical growers, ethical marketing hubs.
I don't disagree with your analysis in general but would say that my parents certainly tried to live like this and my experience of growing up wasn't perfect at all ! Good people bent on changing the world can still be fooled by good propaganda eg my parents supported Franco in Spain and I have met others who are convinced that he could not have been a fascist dictator because the US backed him when they went to war with Nazi Germany and other fascist governments - therefore Franco MUST have been a good democrat !
My mother taught me to care about other people around the world in general, but she has that PEP thing going on - cares deeply about Native American people, but has a blind side when it comes to Palestinians, and honestly Muslims in general. Still, that basis in compassion is what led me to study languages and anthropology in college, which led to working in an international nonprofit and most importantly meeting my husband who is of a different culture, religion and nationality. I think parents can nurture the idea of compassion for the other even if they miss some important matters.
11. DEFUND the government by tax-avoidance (not evasion) !!!
DEFUND billionaires.
Well , isn't any current "government" just the public, "elected" face of the shy and hidden billionaires ??? ...🤔🤔🤔 How did they become billionaires ???
It's mostly consumer's money (for the so-called modern amenities and gadgets) and currently increasing government's contracts (for the electorate's and non aligned country's total submission by funneling tax-payer's money into the MIC) that made them billionaires ...
To defund them, the plebes should be ready to get out of their 24/7/365 cozy comfort-bubbles by simply refusing to consume 95% of currently available amenities and comfort-gadgets they think they are so dependent on . No need to list them up here, you well know what is included ...
Which is the %tage of people we can expect to jump in troubled, murky waters, becoming highly self-reliant and -responsible, fully sustainable, part of an egalitarian society with the decisive goal to participate in defunding billionaires in the long-run ??? ... 🤔🤔🤔
Only true off-gridders with a specific life- and community philosophy will do and are currently doing so. Let them multiply like bacteria. It won't happen but in very restricted form, regions and numbers. The vast majority simply cannot envision such a life, they are programmed for the nanny-state and freebies.
Yes, very sharp guillotines for speed. Do you need to clean between slices?
You plan to slice them up entirely, not chop-off their heads only ??? ...
What thickness ???
Just asking on behalf of my aged dogs ...🤣🤣🤣🐕🦺🐕
It would be animal abuse to feed that to a dog.
Charles Dickens would have been proud!
That’s how we remain powerless, because we have been conditioned and coerced In believing this lie. We have power individually but our strength is when we commit together to say this must stop and find ways to remove our consent our $ and our attention.
One of the smallest things I do in this regard is to wear a Palestine bike jersey on my almost daily bike rides. I had to look as far as Ali-Baba, a Chinese online shopping site. I got a couple for my sons, too , all for last Christmas.
If you hold an intention to help and to resist evil, it helps you see things that you can do.
Only one person has shouted something negative out of a car this year, and it was early, like March. I think more people on my residential 3 mile loop, particularly women, started looking in my face and smiling as I ride my laps.
I stand on the main corner in my city every week with a sign that says “Honk for a Ceasefire” and each week we are seeing more and more positive engagement. I get the occasional middle fingers and stern head shakes, but that number is very low compared to the people with their peace fingers out their windows. Keep the issue fresh in everyone’s awareness and continue to encourage people to act.
I wear a keffiyeh I ordered online wherever I go. If it inspires a dirty look from someone, I blow them a kiss 😁 even though my inclination is to pound them to sawdust 😉
;-) Style Points Awarded.
I salute you even for that small act of rebellion against the machine. Today, with mass surveillance, and the ability for them to trump up charges against you, along with targeted harrassment - even the smallest act can bring unwanted attention to you. This is how we know we are increasingly living in a Totalitarian state: a state based on fear. One lives in constant personal insecurity. Human rights no longer really exist.
What are your son's experiences ??? ... Still allowed to attend school ??? ...
Interesting unconscious projection.
I think my perceptions are accurate. It is like a test of the world.
We have a lot of residents in the area from Asia, not only China and India, and some traditionally-dressed women with head coverings. One of these, who had never made eye contact in previous years, began smiling to my face, for instance.
I am a person who habitually looks people in the eye and smiles, noticing the people who never look, as much as those who appear conflicted about it, and those who sneak a peek just when I am passing by.
Because of the way I present, I see people who do sneak a furtive glance, and get a smile from me, get more open and start to see me farther away, and get ready to smile and wave.
Guys too, even straight guys, sometimes...
"Being aware of the sound of a bell, does not mean that bell belongs to you. Likewise being aware of thoughts, does not mean the thoughts belong to you." ~Wu Hsin
Carl Jung often emphasized people have far less control over their thoughts and inner psyche than they believe they do. The unconscious has a depth not many suspect except to those who have actually tried to study it. Then you realize there is more going on below the surface of "awareness" than above.
YOU make a difference !!! 👍👍👍🚲🚲🚲 ( ) ( ) ( )
(just waiting for the day I can click on a keffiyeh-emoji here on Substack)