Trump has made the fatal error dozens of times over. He lies every time he opens his mouth. Now he might as well remain mute. THE HEALING BEGINS WITH US.
We can make choices that direct our individual lives and shape our immediate world. But as far as the bigger world goes, the only very limited choice we have is who we vote for. After that, the people we elect and the powers to which they are beholden--not voters or the common good--will make the Big Choices. And as we are seeing in this Age of Crazy, Stupid, Sick and Fucking Unbelievable, they continually make the failing choices--austerity, militarization, war, support for genocide, disregard for international law, censorship, etc.--because the bigger world is all about power, geopolitical domination and exploitation. The good thing is that 1. people are starting to wake up to this harsh reality and to speak out and stand up, although not yet in big enough numbers to effect change. The best thing is that change will come inevitably as the crazy, stupid, sick and unbelievable West self-destructs with the US, Israel and the UK and Israel, in particular, hard at work. The big question is what will the world look like in the aftermath. I don't know whether to hope or not hope that I should live long enough to see it.
I always vote, Diane, out of a sense of duty, but it really upsets me that when candidates whose values I share aren't allowed to run -- in BC think Anjali Appadurai for the NDP, and Dimitri Lascaris who ran for the federal Green Party -- I think we have to do a lot more than vote.
I actually don't consider western governments democratic, since the monied almost always get their way over the interests of everyone else.
It's great that people are waking up, and I think making sure more people are exposed to a different narrative is really important.
I also think making our lives into acts of resistance helps as well. Like termites, we can dismantle much of the system from within.
Definitely I want to live in the first scenario. I was thinking along those lines today as we were picking mulberries from our trees and had a salad made from our homegrown organic lettuce and mustard greens... It's so much better to know where your food comes from and what (didn't) go into it!
That's great! Many of us are living aspects of the first scenario, and I think walking that talk helps it come into being in a bigger way. I love mulberries, and the salad sounds wonderful too. I have a few things growing in the garden and love to wildcraft.
Please don’t stop writing, your voice is valuable and important. Please don’t leave the stage just for the Zionist sociopaths to tell the evil narrative. You and good brave people like you make a huge difference in making our voices heard. Please continue writing and telling our story to the world, we can’t afford not having your voice loud and clear strong. Allah Yebarek Feekee Dear Diana.
We have to see these as times of transition, and see the empire which is so full evil to its eventual collapse.
We really do, Robert. And I think we have two things we must do.
1. Do everything we can to keep from self destructing as the west goes down, and
2.To articulate and work towards a vision for the kind of future we want.
Trump has made the fatal error dozens of times over. He lies every time he opens his mouth. Now he might as well remain mute. THE HEALING BEGINS WITH US.
Yes, I agree, Robert.
We can make choices that direct our individual lives and shape our immediate world. But as far as the bigger world goes, the only very limited choice we have is who we vote for. After that, the people we elect and the powers to which they are beholden--not voters or the common good--will make the Big Choices. And as we are seeing in this Age of Crazy, Stupid, Sick and Fucking Unbelievable, they continually make the failing choices--austerity, militarization, war, support for genocide, disregard for international law, censorship, etc.--because the bigger world is all about power, geopolitical domination and exploitation. The good thing is that 1. people are starting to wake up to this harsh reality and to speak out and stand up, although not yet in big enough numbers to effect change. The best thing is that change will come inevitably as the crazy, stupid, sick and unbelievable West self-destructs with the US, Israel and the UK and Israel, in particular, hard at work. The big question is what will the world look like in the aftermath. I don't know whether to hope or not hope that I should live long enough to see it.
Chomp, chomp, chomp!
I always vote, Diane, out of a sense of duty, but it really upsets me that when candidates whose values I share aren't allowed to run -- in BC think Anjali Appadurai for the NDP, and Dimitri Lascaris who ran for the federal Green Party -- I think we have to do a lot more than vote.
I actually don't consider western governments democratic, since the monied almost always get their way over the interests of everyone else.
It's great that people are waking up, and I think making sure more people are exposed to a different narrative is really important.
I also think making our lives into acts of resistance helps as well. Like termites, we can dismantle much of the system from within.
Definitely I want to live in the first scenario. I was thinking along those lines today as we were picking mulberries from our trees and had a salad made from our homegrown organic lettuce and mustard greens... It's so much better to know where your food comes from and what (didn't) go into it!
That's great! Many of us are living aspects of the first scenario, and I think walking that talk helps it come into being in a bigger way. I love mulberries, and the salad sounds wonderful too. I have a few things growing in the garden and love to wildcraft.
Great post, Thank you Diana, you covered great deal of complicated topics here, excellent work really, please keep up the good work.
Thanks so much, Capt. Eissa! Comments like yours help me to feel sane. And keeping my sanity intact is one of the reasons I can't stop writing.
Please don’t stop writing, your voice is valuable and important. Please don’t leave the stage just for the Zionist sociopaths to tell the evil narrative. You and good brave people like you make a huge difference in making our voices heard. Please continue writing and telling our story to the world, we can’t afford not having your voice loud and clear strong. Allah Yebarek Feekee Dear Diana.
I promise not to stop writing, Capt. Eissa. My sanity depends upon it. Thanks so much for your encouragement.