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What we (humanity) are at our strongest is a loving society and moreover it is our purpose. Abuse is a weakness of humanity. Our difficulty to love is a flaw that needs fixing. We suffer abuse from society and from our families, from the places around us and the people who created those spaces. It permeates our society like an illness. The goal in life, all that matters in the end, is love, right? At the end of your life you only wish that you loved more people, that more people loved you... you only care about your loved ones and your passions. So why don't we start paying attention to the thing that matters most as soon as we can? Emotion and connection are fundamental to the human experience. It's so weird and illogical to me that we have a world that makes you incapable of the main thing humans do.
Why do we live in an abusive society? We each and all have the power, and I believe the responsibility, to change this. People are punished for existence and the possibility of existence and I say fuck that. This may be the dominant part of my personality speaking, but only action changes the world. Submission will not change the will of another, of this white supremacist other. I think about potential actions every day. I pray I figure out what to do soon.
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It’s incredibly frustrating that the root problem, over and over, is capitalism. Greed, abuse, dishonesty, amorality, the empire’s mind, has poisoned this world. How is it that one big mistake led to THIS many problems in our world? It’s big, sure, but how the fuck does it actually touch everything?
I guess I can try to answer this in two parts. It’s not one mistake made by one person, it’s billions of mistakes made by millions, perhaps billions of people too. Yet at the same time the mistake is humanity’s-- when we regard humanity as one self. I don’t like the word species but for lack of a better one, it’s our species’ mistake that we should fix as a whole species. The Earth can fix it for herself, but her method involves killing us. It’s really only up to us to find a way to stop killing ourselves. We run on poison and are afraid we don’t know how to run without it. Maybe we don’t, but I think I believe we could figure it out. I believe there exists a possibility that we do know and can live that way. In the end, I guess I’m just an optimist right? a romantic idealist. I feel confident saying that love is the most real thing in the world. Capitalism has tied survival to itself, but love is what makes a life. Even the ones who kill us the most know that, and what’s pitiful about them is that they’ll never be able to grasp it as long as they keep killing us. Their eternal struggle would almost be comical if their poor mindset didn’t affect the whole world. That’s part of why I believe in love and why I believe this world is loveless. The Roys, the people in our world like them, they still chase after love even if they know it’s not real. And the love they offer isn't real because this world does not allow love to grow at all. Sooo, my suggestion is basically: let’s make love more real. Life is ruthless even without the burdens society places upon us. Grief and death and illness are inescapable for us all. So why the fuck would we add even more problems on top of it, to make society hurt others even more? What the fuck does that even do for humanity? How does hurting others help you? It makes you feel good, really? Better than love? I truly don’t think so, but maybe you’ve forgotten what love feels like because it’s been absent for so long. What did your gender roles establish besides horrible standards for men and women to be bound to? Like y’all… for real…. Had fun doing all that? Seems like so much self-hatred, anti-humanity hate to me. It’s sad! But it’s also so fucking destructive and troublesome that basically all my attention needs to be on damage control rather than sympathy. I feel a strong pull to do work that tries to make things better. When your life has been so shitty because of society, you sometimes get struck with the thought to make society better rather than make things worse. I’m not being nice to the world because I expect it to be nice to me. I’m being nice to the world because I know being nice makes it nicer. I’m part of the world, not separate, and what I do matters because I am alive. What I've done matters when I'm dead too. I’m definitely aware this world sucks, but I’m saying you can still try to not suck as much as possible. It’s actually pretty fun, putting love into the world. It’s even funner when you put love in and you get love back, but we can only get there if we actually DO THINGS TO GET THERE. I wish I could share my faith in love with everybody, because it is a hot flame that fuels my desire to build more loving worlds. Yeah, other people could go on about the personal benefits and more detailed societal changes but part of my drive is just the simple belief that love is real! I gotta live life as fiercely as I possibly can which to me means I gotta love. I’m a pretty rare person and I feel the need to burn extra brightly, so people don’t forget to love me too. This world would let me disappear but these little words are part of my way of hanging on and putting in my little seed of love. If the most I can do is bury it under some dirt then I will, with the hopes of rainfall in the future. We talk a lot about ending cycles of intergenerational trauma, but when do we start talking about beginning a cycle of love? Endings are beginnings too. Fundamentally there needs to be more love present in the world because the lack of it is hurting everybody, even those at the top top top 0.001%.
Universal rights: this is what our country and the larger Western world is based in, that it recognizes and grants those rights to all humans. But it doesn’t do that for every human. values: internal personal measurements that define you beliefs: assumptions about the world, with faith/confidence in your assumptions ideals: external values you want for society What are the three's importance in the world we live in now? Does a change in values change society as a whole? I think yes. These top 0.0001% people, they don’t want to change how they live their life and what they’ve made important to their life because they’re successful at it. Why would they stop valuing money if they have a lot of it? Wouldn’t that make them less superior than other people? That’s what they base their importance and power on, so there is no incentive to change their way of thinking or acting on the world. All the evil that results from their mindset is acted upon; it is the consequences of those thoughts. That’s why I believe changing minds is the key…. A key to changing the world. It’s imperative to continue doing work that improves the quality of lives in real time like changing laws and health programs and daily advocacy, but it’s also important to focus on living a different life, one that complements the world that you want to live in. Yes, it’s hard because we live in this world but our actions now do change the world we live in. When enough people approach a space with XYZ mindset, that space will take on those shared values. With enough material tangible visible changes in our society, more people will be able to adopt AND/OR develop this mindset for themselves. Personally, I believe the spark of real change requires another scientific revolution but that is a discussion for another time. An issue I find in my assertion about people being capable of changing their mindset is that I think my mindset is universal as opposed to everything else. I believe love is universal, and abuse does not have to be. Right? Is that true? Living a certain way makes it true, I think. Yes I cannot stop climate change by myself, but that doesn’t mean I can’t live as ecologically conscious as possible. I have the option (and yes sometimes you don't have the option, but other times you fucking do) to choose between what brand of shampoo I wanna buy, where I get my clothes from, where I work and the impact of that on the world. If enough people share the view that Even though my individual actions will not lower the sea levels, I’m still going to choose to be a person that cares abt the environment because that’s what I value, then maybe some things might change. The larger cultures you are immersed in do have great influence over what values you embrace, but that doesn't mean your behavior and actions are dependent on others doing it first. I think everybody needs to choose it for themselves to reach a society where we do things for the good of society (aka humanity...) Do good things for the collective because you want to, not because other people are and if you don't you're afraid it'll make you look bad. What is bad is you doing it with no good motivation because there's literally no good in your action. What I want people to do is choose to love life, the Earth, others, themselves, all of it. Once we fucking choose that all the time then our society would be a lot better. The problem is that there isn't any love and while that sounds so simple, it is not. I’m not saying everybody hold hands around the world although I understand the sentiment. It’s much harder than that, but I’m asking begging on behalf of the people that are dying and suffering every fucking day and asking begging on behalf of myself. The issue is that the 0.0001% don’t want to love because their wealth and power comes from abusing others. But life. is better. when we love. Everybody gets what they want versus only one person getting what they want-- how is that a detriment to you in any way, when you are still satisfied? If what you want is the pain of others, now that is a different discussion and it’s a want that DOES NOT (in my opinion) need to become systems and structures that hurt others. The desire for pain and dominance and violence appears to be a natural quality about humanity. I think the way we can channel it in society is much better than the way that we are doing it now. Healthy love and healthy power and healthy pain. Healthy love doesn’t equal unlimited love, everything is a balance but I don’t believe there is a need for this much abuse. The idea of factions like in Divergent, the urge to sort people and categorize based on personality traits and values, is so interesting to me. I don’t think that there is a reason to separate if we commit fully to living together in harmony. The thing is, I am sure there are more pillars of society out there that I don’t know about yet and maybe some that I’ll never be able to understand. I feel hesitant about ever calling an end to anything. I don’t think I have the authority to say this is how it is, this is completely what it is in regards to my view of the world. I don’t think one person can come up with a complete idea of what a society is supposed to look like. Society can only exist if humanity is amassed so why would it be able to be produced by one sole human? Do we live in possibilities that we have the power to influence? The world actually isn’t working the way it should-- it’s running wrong, and we should do something to fix it because we live in the world. It really feels like the one percent of the one percent are ready to leave this planet behind. Our methods of escape to space are so violent, rage and fire and fuel until we break through the atmosphere. I wonder if we lived in a loving world, would we have been able to find new methods of living? Understand science and society completely differently. Emotion, community, care, love, empathy…. If these had remained in our practice I want to suggest, as crazy and far-fetched as it sounds, that our languages of understanding the world would be different. Western science has certainly yielded results, but what if that’s because humanity would always have gotten some result no matter the approach-- reality continually asserting its existence? Or is this horrible awful evil method of learning and gaining information the only method that would have ever worked to understand the world? Has it been the most successful language, the myth of Europeans bringing modernity actually is our reality? Is it really true that these white people happened to figure out really productive ways of manipulating the world around them and the nature of the world is always abuse? I truly don't think so. I think abuse must have started internally within Europeans to then spread into how they as a culture treated the world. Thinking about Asian history now, which is incredibly lengthy and deeply detailed… we have figured out some ways of living too. It is not true that Africa was backwards or that the indigenous people of the Americas were primitive. We all figured out life at the same pace, with our own traditions. White people claimed that other humans existing at the same time as them were actually living relics? When they literally existed at the same time you existed? Beyond illogical conclusions. I think intermingling for the first time sparked our consciousness moving forward as a species, developing a sense of global identity, but the first move did not have to be violence. It could have been love too. I think people feel loved by their abuser, ones who take out their familial trauma on their family, because some elements of love are offered. It's a partial offering: abuse is love minus a few elements, either one or all. If you coax out the strands of love you might be able to see what was missing, what got twisted up and bruised… we can feel some aspects of love that way, but rarely more than the hurt.
Nobody knows how to make love. We are discouraged from doing so and our loveless world marches on. I think love demands my attention though, because of my personal history of abuse, It tells me we’ve been on this path, NOT that we should stay on this path. The difference between the past and the present is that only one is in our power to act upon. So we have to do something, as much as we can, if we ever want to live in a world for our existing self. |
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