I think of this as one example of how UNPREPARED we have been collectively conditioned to be, thanks to the academic "Good Educations" of our collective, European vanguards (in formal organizations). Studied, of course. (What does one think those "war colleges" are for?) The social scientists did their Jobs and supplied intel to statecraft, and thus of course we are generally out-manuvered and messed with.
And the ongoing (?) stuckness in this "one way to do things" to apparently not comprehend this is, in my estimation, to the ongoing DETRIMENT of this movement.
Granted, we learn. Our tendency to appraise reality similarly to how kids are socialized has been a problem, tho. Think of the Squid people in the movie "Galaxy Quest" (the 1990s satire of "Star Trek"!) and how they suffered and suffered at the hands of that grasshoper-locust-like aggressor. i see us as very very similar.
Yes, i'm "jumping the gun", and i may be very much mistaken. But just in websites (like this one?) seeking only those with PhD's or higher, moves me to share my intuition along these lines. Granted, we are ALL in processes!
And i am a learned cynic, sometimes!! Not usually remembering, even now, to REMEMBER that ALL of these ways have their INSTRUCTIVE SIDES! Their TEACHINGS! Their excellences! (To HELP us, if we can rise out of our oft internalized cynicism by such provocation!!)(i'm reminded of a Richard Bach book where a wise champion taught "You have problems because you need their gifts.")
Whatever folks get out of my sharings, i'm just feeling SO GLAD to be ABLE to!! Thank you all you volunteer admins!!
It's the same thing with the prison experience according to my study. "In the reality of many realities, how we see what we see, affects the quality of our reality." A fond quote from another depth charger! If we internalize the ideas, say, of author Don Miguel Ruiz (and son!), in the book '
The Five Agreements' we learn, for one NOT to take things so personally. Yes, we get "initiated", and yet, if we are able to retain and maintain our unique powers of empathy, we can surprise such Miserables (often deeply tooled into such roles of Attack).
i'm reminded here of the "
Readers Digest" article some years back where a leader of the kkk lived across form a jewish couple and harrassed them at length. But they held steadfast and didn't react to his provocations. AND they responded in kindness, no matter what!! Eventually, this hardened authoritarian moved out of his spell of intolerance and befriended them!!
Then, reading not long ago, about a prisoner able to reach his prisonmates by sharing his "spread", and how that was ALLOWED to flourish, all in kindness!! Changing the horror that so much of prisons have been for so long!
"...if we are afraid, we are almost always afraid of something, and the more clearly we can see what it is we are afraid of, the more likely we are to be able to cope with that fear."--John Holt in FREEDOM AND BEYOND p.32
