#fear
I think the difficulty is that most of us, at least those who are in #authority, they prefer #violence because they want quick solutions and to be able to #control people through #fear. And so they encourage more and more violence so that they could maintain that fear.
And it has seeped so deep down into society that we, even our #parenting style has become violent. Every time we #punish a child for misbehavior we are planting the first seeds of violence in their minds. They come to realize that anybody who does something wrong must be punished. And so that whole cycle of violence continues from there.
What it means now is that we have to look for an alternative and try to incorporate that in our life. And i think that is what my grandfather [ #MahatmaGandhi ] wanted to do and he demonstrated through his philosophy and his life, that it can be achieved and it can be done if we have that desire to do it.
--- Arun Gandhi, https://youtu.be/jFmTqFoLgjA?si=6KXzBcm-6n5CIukn&t=57
#ArunGandhi #nonviolence #violence #fear #punishment
#Israeli airspace is fully clear, the only planes are grounded in Ben Gurion Intl. Airport
It seems like Iran have found a way to break the Israeli economy without doing anything.
#Fear #Iran #Retaliation #Damascus #ConsulateAttack #Politics
ROWLAND: I think Hell is something you carry around with you, not somewhere you go.
Neil Gaiman (b. 1960) British author, screenwriter, fabulist
Sandman, Book 4. Season of Mists, # 25 “Chapter 4” (1991-04)
#quote #quotes #quotation #eternity #fear #guilt #hell #innerdemons #meme #punishment #selfimage #selfpunishment
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/gaiman-neil/35694/
fear patch all seeing third eye...
#fear #logo #trainspot #allseeingeye #collar #thirdeye #cables #cyborg #cyberpunk
How #millennials learned to dread #motherhood
source: https://www.vox.com/features/23979357/millennials-motherhood-dread-parenting-birthrate-women-policy
Today, it’s genuinely difficult to find #mainstream portrayals of moms who are not stressed to the brink, depressed, isolated, or increasingly resentful.
https://davidgraeber.org/articles/hope-in-common/
Hope in Common
#DAVIDGRAEBER
..."Hopelessness isn’t natural. It needs to be produced.... a vast apparatus of armies, prisons, police, various forms of private security firms and police and military intelligence apparatus, propaganda engines of every conceivable variety, most of which do not attack #alternatives directly so much as they create a pervasive climate of #fear, jingoistic conformity, and simple despair that renders any thought of changing the world seem an idle fantasy. Maintaining this apparatus seems even more important, to exponents of the “free market,” even than maintaining any sort of viable #market #economy. How else can one explain, for instance, what happened in the former Soviet Union, where one would have imagined the end of the Cold War would have led to the dismantling of the army and KGB and rebuilding the factories, but in fact what happened was precisely the other way around? This is just one extreme example of what has been happening everywhere. Economically, this apparatus is pure dead weight; all the guns, surveillance cameras, and #propaganda engines are extraordinarily expensive and really produce nothing, and as a result, it’s dragging the entire #capitalist system down with it, and possibly, the earth itself.
...
our perceptions having been twisted into knots by decades of relentless propaganda, we are no longer able to see them. Consider here the term “communism.” Rarely has a term come to be so utterly reviled. The standard line, which we accept more or less unthinkingly, is that communism means state control of the economy, and this is an impossible utopian dream because history has shown it simply “doesn’t work.” Capitalism, however unpleasant, is thus the only remaining option. But in fact communism really just means any situation where people act according to the principle of “from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs” — which is the way pretty much everyone always act if they are working together to get something done. If two people are fixing a pipe and one says “hand me the wrench,” the other doesn’t say, “and what do I get for it?”(That is, if they actually want it to be fixed.) This is true even if they happen to be employed by Bechtel or Citigroup. They apply principles of communism because it’s the only thing that really works. This is also the reason whole cities or countries revert to some form of rough-and-ready communism in the wake of natural disasters, or economic collapse (one might say, in those circumstances, markets and hierarchical chains of command are luxuries they can’t afford.) The more creativity is required, the more people have to improvise at a given task, the more egalitarian the resulting form of communism is likely to be: that’s why even Republican computer engineers, when trying to innovate new software ideas, tend to form small democratic collectives. It’s only when work becomes standardized and boring — as on production lines — that it becomes possible to impose more authoritarian, even fascistic forms of communism. But the fact is that even private companies are, internally, organized communistically.
Communism then is already here. The question is how to further democratize it. Capitalism, in turn, is just one possible way of managing communism — and, it has become increasingly clear, rather a disastrous one. Clearly we need to be thinking about a better one: preferably, one that does not quite so systematically set us all at each others’ throats.
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at the very least we can start with a pledge against #evictions: to pledge, #neighborhood by neighborhood, to support each other if any of us are to be driven from our homes. The power is not just that to challenge regimes of debt is to challenge the very fiber of #capitalism — its moral foundation — now revealed to be a collection of broken promises — but in doing so, to create a new one. A debt after all is only that: a promise, and the present world abounds with promises that have not been kept. ... the promise offered by capitalism — that we could live like kings if we were willing to buy stock in our own collective subordination. All of this has come crashing down. What remains is what we are able to promise one another. Directly.
Without the mediation of economic and political bureaucracies. The revolution begins by asking: what sort of promises do free men and women make to one another, and how, by making them, do we begin to make another world?"...
Transforming Depression, Anger and Fear with Mindful Breathing and Mindful Walking | Thich Nhat Hanh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjaSR-ie9kg
#ThichNhatHanh #anger #fear #depression #mindfulness #MindfulBreathing #MindfulWalking #TransformationAndHealing #buddhism #dharma #dhamma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWevKnjS5To
#Fear #of #Everything
9 May #2020 ... #Jon-Carin : Debuts New Single “ #Fear-Of-Everything” With a Global Digital Release ... Jon Carin a Grammy Award winning musician, singer, songwriter ...
#Music on #White-Resonant-Worldbridger
#JonCarin 10/21/1964 #Birth US musician (Pink Floyd, The Who),
Supremacists only feel "safe" if the people they hate are cowering in fear of their eagerness to deliver the next punch/kick/bullet
--- James Kroeger
(Note: I wouldn't say "only" but that can be one relatively common way to feel safe for people with a supremacist mindset)
#fear #bullying #hatred #harassment #supremacy #WhiteSupremacy #JewishSupremacy
https://twitter.com/ajamubaraka/status/1721963568004796790
In every oppressive empire there are always solders who do the dirty work of colonialism that will understand how they are used by the elites. We did it during the Vietnam era & vowed to use what we learned in the service of the oppressed & against empire. https://t.co/pRSBPrZZcH
— Ajamu Baraka (@ajamubaraka) November 7, 2023
Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PdvFrRGth54
The #media's controlling the #masses
Stoking our #anger and #fear
Further dividing the classes
Serving the richest's careers
Their #mantra is lies and deception
When honesty's all that I crave
I decline and there'll be no exceptions
I am no one's master
No one's slave
No one's slave
Living in fear ain't worth living
Wasting your life is the crime
The reaper will be unforgiving
Wake up, while you're still in your prime
The guide of my life is my conscience
My way is the path that I pave
I treat, how I want to be treated
I am no one's master
No one's slave
No one's slave
I won't rule
I won't bow
I won't sink my eyes to the ground
I won't steal
I won't kneel
I won't bend my knee to the crowned
I pledge an oath to myself and to life
I'm not afraid of the sword or the knife
The guide of my life is my conscience
My way is the path that I pave
Equality's all that I'm after
I am no one's master
No one's slave
No one's slave
No one's master
I am no one's
No one's slave
#music
nah, i doubt they'll respond well.
they seem in a hostile reactive groupthink.
limbic reflexive attacking, not considering.
but, can but offer best ways back i can.
#DigitsPoems
#Epistemology #Debate #Consider #GroupThink #Fear
#amygdala #cantgettherefromhere #ignorance #agnogeny #pedagogy #enlaketch #curiosity #humility #arrogance #research #psyop #conspiracytheory #misinformation #disinformation #malinformation #education #educatedmind #harmonicrange #reach #ahelpinghand #educatethemfortheyknownotwhattheydo #openmind #openminded #closedmind #closedminded #worldview #incurious #shills #everybodyssayingthesamethingdifferently #ideas