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I take solace in is Nature and observing animals and insects.
I’m also thankful for the people who take care of community gardens. Spots of life in concrete.
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If we make it through this time, the U.S. needs to make a reckoning with its history.
It’s convenient to blame the man with the mustache and yes there are parallels. Authoritarians tend to make the same moves, whatever their political party is named.
But ultimately, our call is coming from inside the house.
Genocide, slavery, sedition, Civil War, segregation, eugenics ideology, exploitation of labor, harassment of targeted groups: it happened here. Until we as a whole society face and metabolize this part of American history of white supremacy, greed, and xenophobia, we will repeat it.
If we make it through, we need to re-embrace what made us great: the ingenuity and innovation that come from diversity, education, and a mindset that looks to the future instead of living in the past.
It’s convenient to blame the man with the mustache and yes there are parallels. Authoritarians tend to make the same moves, whatever their political party is named.
But ultimately, our call is coming from inside the house.
Genocide, slavery, sedition, Civil War, segregation, eugenics ideology, exploitation of labor, harassment of targeted groups: it happened here. Until we as a whole society face and metabolize this part of American history of white supremacy, greed, and xenophobia, we will repeat it.
If we make it through, we need to re-embrace what made us great: the ingenuity and innovation that come from diversity, education, and a mindset that looks to the future instead of living in the past.
Italian Fascism, German National Socialism, and American authoritarianism have similarities, yet they are also their own products of time, place, and culture.
We need to understand and acknowledge our own American history of genocide, slavery, segregation, and religious fanaticism.
The people enslaving others, banning books, and screaming slurs at Black students during the Civil Rights era weren’t Nazis. They were Americans. That’s the difficult truth we must admit.
The Germans did the hard work of confronting their past. Can Americans do the same?Tags:
A meme I saw on the Inspirational Skeletor account:
Synchronicity, because I’ve been thinking along these lines.
More specifically, I’ve been thinking about how generational trauma, narc abuse, emotional suppression, religious repression, and shame work together to create fear and cowardice.
Beat someone down enough (whether physically or emotionally) and they lose their courage… and often, they lose the will to live. Repeat and pass down abusive behaviors over the generations and you’ll wind up with a populace of emotional zombies.
Into that psychological void rush in addictions, which move the empty husk where the person used to be through their obligations. They’re doing what’s expected of them, but they’re not living. They don’t have the motivation to take care of themselves and therefore won’t help others.
Abusers like turning humans into empty shells and automatons. Easier to divide and conquer, program, exploit, then throw away.
That’s the situation. Always has been, really.
So how then, do we find our courage and the will to live fully?
The first step is to honor the struggle whether it’s yours or someone else’s with compassion and respect.
Healing from trauma and finding purpose takes time, access, support, and useful knowledge. A work in progress. Everyone is on a different schedule and with enough of that time and support, they will arrive at the place they need to be.
When they arrive at the place they need to be, they will be strong enough to help others, too.
We have experienced several inflection points. My hope is that finally, finally, we find our courage and understand "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately" (attributed to Benjamin Franklin).
Synchronicity, because I’ve been thinking along these lines.
More specifically, I’ve been thinking about how generational trauma, narc abuse, emotional suppression, religious repression, and shame work together to create fear and cowardice.
Beat someone down enough (whether physically or emotionally) and they lose their courage… and often, they lose the will to live. Repeat and pass down abusive behaviors over the generations and you’ll wind up with a populace of emotional zombies.
Into that psychological void rush in addictions, which move the empty husk where the person used to be through their obligations. They’re doing what’s expected of them, but they’re not living. They don’t have the motivation to take care of themselves and therefore won’t help others.
Abusers like turning humans into empty shells and automatons. Easier to divide and conquer, program, exploit, then throw away.
That’s the situation. Always has been, really.
So how then, do we find our courage and the will to live fully?
The first step is to honor the struggle whether it’s yours or someone else’s with compassion and respect.
Healing from trauma and finding purpose takes time, access, support, and useful knowledge. A work in progress. Everyone is on a different schedule and with enough of that time and support, they will arrive at the place they need to be.
When they arrive at the place they need to be, they will be strong enough to help others, too.
We have experienced several inflection points. My hope is that finally, finally, we find our courage and understand "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately" (attributed to Benjamin Franklin).
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