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Not
JUST Americans of course.
These
are my comments on Facebook
I
cant disagree with this!!
I
feel my mind is being fucked around with all the insanity that
surrounds me. Lies, lies, lies and more fucking lies!!
I
was accused of siding with alt-right politics but nothing could be
further from the case! In fact I could not care less about party
politics - they're all fucked - every single one of them - and I
can't think of anyone I would want to vote for in this beknighted
country.
It
is the end of politics as we know it. All to be rendered irrelevent
by the RAPID BREAKDOWN of the world's thermostat and the descent into
insanity of most people - and most of all the ability of the people
to THINK.
Everyone
has given up critical thinking for adopting rigid ideological
positions instead.
Most
of all this is true of the Left that I identified with most of my
life (or the faux-Left) that has given up real left-wing politics for
identity politics.
There
are people on the Right side of politics that are sane and rational,
against intefering in the affairs of other countries, against
"humanitarian wars" ("bomb people to save them").
Unlike
people on the Left the people I am referring to do not engage in hate
speech.
There
are sane people on the Left (John Pilger comes most immediately to
mind) - but there are very few in number. Most simply act according
to formulaic views that have absolutely ZERO relevance today.
We
are fucked which ever way you look so I am damned if I am going to
pretend it's politics -as-normal ("extend-and-pretend")
I
may not be correct in anything but one skill I have honed in the last
6 years is to be able to recognise evidence when I see it and
distinguish it from propaganda.
I
am very ill and my nerves are frayed and I believe in speaking one's
truth but calming down the rhetoric (at least in terms of social
collapse).
I
do not mind disagreement in the slightest SO LONG as it is civil and
comes with some intellectual discourse and evidence rather than
ill-considered opinions and prejudice.
If
ANYONE comes with the aim of sowing division and with hatred I will
immediately defriend (or defriend and block) them. Similarly if you
want to tar everyone with conservative views with the white
supremacist, fascist label
Americans are Rapidly Descending Into Madness
Michael
Krieger
16 August, 2017
I don’t live in an echo
chamber, partly because there aren’t enough people out there who
think like me, but also because I constantly and intentionally
attempt to challenge my worldview by reading stuff from all over the
political map. I ingest as much as I can from a wide variety of
intelligent sources, picking and choosing what makes sense to me, and
then synthesizing it the best I can.
Though I’m certainly
grounded in certain key principles, my perspective on specific issues
remains malleable as I take in additional information and
perspectives. I try to accept and acknowledge my own ignorance and
view life as a journey of constant mental, emotionally and spiritual
growth. If I’m not growing my capacity in all of those realms until
the day I die, I’m doing it wrong. Life should be seen as a battle
against one’s own ignorance, as opposed to an obsession with the
ignorance of others. You can’t legislate morality, nor can you
legislate wisdom. The only way the world will improve on a long-term
sustainable basis is if more of us get wise. That’s a personal
journey and it’s our individual duty to accept it.
While I’m only in
control of my own behavior, this doesn’t mean that the behavior of
others is irrelevant to my life. Unfortunately, what I see happening
to the population of America right now seems very troublesome and
foreboding. What I’m witnessing across the board is hordes of
people increasingly separating themselves into weird, unthinking
cults. Something appears to have snapped in our collective
consciousness, and many individuals I used to respect (on both sides
of the political spectrum) are becoming disturbingly polarized and
hysterical. People are rapidly morphing into radicalized mental
patients.
What’s worse, this
environment is providing a backdrop for the most destructive people
of my lifetime — neoconservatives and neo liberals — to preen
around on corporate media as “the voices of reason.” This is one
of the most perverse and dangerous side-effects of the current
political climate. As I noted earlier today on Twitter:
What the entrenched political class is doing now, is exactly what the Fed did after the crisis. Posing as saviors to a disaster they created
If in your disgust with
Trump, you’re willing to run into the cold embrace of these
destroyers of the middle class and the Middle East, you’ll get what
you deserve. In contrast, if we really want to deal with our very
real and very systemic problems, the last thing we need is a
population-level mental breakdown that leads to a longing for the
criminally destructive political status quo, yet that’s exactly
what seems to be happening.
Ok fine, so everything
seems to be rapidly collapsing, but what are we supposed to do? First
of all, don’t lose your minds.
As I suggested in
February’s post, Why Increased Consciousness is the Only PathForward:
As noted earlier, Wilber
thinks 10% is a key tipping point. In other words, if we can get 10%
of the population to center around a yellow second-tier level of
thought, which consists of a momentous leap in consciousness, the
entire world will change for the better. I agree. I’m not here
trying to sell you a seminar on how to expand your consciousness;
rather, I think these article can help spark some sort of revelation
in the minds of many of you who are already at yellow, or at least at
the cusp of such a transformation. Since consciousness can and does
regress under conditions of stress and fear, it’s extremely
important to be conscious of your consciousness so that you don’t
fall back into lower states.
Unfortunately, I see many
people regressing at the moment, and I see the media as an
intentional force in trying to get people to lower their
consciousness. A perfect way to tell if someone is operating at a low
level of consciousness is if they’re constantly placing tens of
millions of their fellow citizens into an outside group they
subsequently demonize. It’s perfectly fine and healthy to harshly
criticize the system itself and the many powerful individuals doing
awful things within it, but once you start dehumanizing large swaths
of the population as a matter of your worldview, you are most
certainly on a very counterproductive path that will lead to merely a
blackhole of nothingness for society.
Beyond maintaining one’s
sanity, it’s imperative that conscious humans create systems and
communities that have as little connection as possible to the
existing and rapidly disintegrating paradigm. This will create
“anti-fragile” units of strength within the collapsing Potemkin
village socio-economic structure that dominates our culture right
now. Some of these projects need to be local, while others can be
global. Community farming/food production is a great example of a
local initiative, while Bitcoin (and cryptocurrencies in general),
represent global initiatives to replace the hopelessly corrupt and
archaic entrenched financial system. While crazy, power-obsessed
tribes focus on taking over the hopelessly corrupt centralized
government in Washington D.C., we need to continue to build separate,
decentralized paradigms — and there isn’t much time to waste.
Fortunately, there are
plenty of very decent, very conscious people out there. I want this
piece to provide encouragement to those of you already engaged in
this invaluable work, as well as inspiration for those of you looking
for an outlet for your creative and intellectual energies. It’s
never been more important to keep our heads steady and not permit
ourselves to be sucked into the mental sickness infecting so many of
our fellow humans. It’s imperative that we vigilantly guard our
wisdom and consciousness, because the best solutions will only come
from a place of spiritual and mental health. If you descend into the
gutter with everyone else, your output will also end up looking like
trash. That’s the last thing we need.
Stay strong and stay
conscious.
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