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I know I’ve posted a lot of feel-good stuff lately but... internally I’ve been brewing.
Brewing over this situation and over the fear of what comes after. The anarchist in me is stirring and even though me just like anybody is trying to find normalcy.
But we can’t and mustn’t.
Brewing over this situation and over the fear of what comes after. The anarchist in me is stirring and even though me just like anybody is trying to find normalcy.
But we can’t and mustn’t.
This is going to be a LONG string of thought so you better get ready.
Because I think what’s going to happen is the most insidious and horrific gaslighting campaign we have ever seen. Once this is over and the capitalists around us want us to return to what we were before.
Because I think what’s going to happen is the most insidious and horrific gaslighting campaign we have ever seen. Once this is over and the capitalists around us want us to return to what we were before.
Listen to me now because this is important:
They will do ANYTHING in their power to make us forget what happened. Mark my words.
They will want us to forget how we watched every single system around us collapse and leave us to die.
And we mustn’t forget.
They will do ANYTHING in their power to make us forget what happened. Mark my words.
They will want us to forget how we watched every single system around us collapse and leave us to die.
And we mustn’t forget.
They will want us to forget that our healthcare system which is supposed to provide freedom failed to protect all of us and how it killed minorities disproportionately to everyone else. That it failed to provide the most basic equipment for our healthcare worker’s safety.
They will do anything to make us forget that we had no choice and no freedom in whether or not we could stay safe and economically protected at the same time and how the system made us choose between poverty and risking ourselves and our loved ones.
They will do whatever it takes to make us forget the images of the clear skies over Los Angeles without the smog and the return of animals into our spaces. They will pretend once more that there is nothing we can do for the environment and the future of our planet and children.
They will do whatever it takes to make you forget that they did not care about you. That the economy and the money in their pockets is all they think about and they will point to the slim $1200 they haven’t even sent out yet as flimsy evidence that you matter to them.
We are about to witness the biggest capitalist campaign to make you buyers and consumers again in all of history. To make you too busy and too poor to do something.
Politicians and government and big brands will do anything to make you forget everything above.
Politicians and government and big brands will do anything to make you forget everything above.
And I know you will want to. I know we’re living through strange times and terrible horrors and it’s not even over yet. It will be tempting to want to go back to what we know afterwards because we’ve all been through a LOT.
But we mustn’t. We can’t.
But we mustn’t. We can’t.
Embrace the things you are learning about our way of life that have been exposed by this situation.
Capitalism is killing us, the planet and will never save any of us when it comes down to it.
You have to make sure you won’t forget this once everything will campaign against it.
Capitalism is killing us, the planet and will never save any of us when it comes down to it.
You have to make sure you won’t forget this once everything will campaign against it.
You did see it. You are not crazy and if I know anything about gaslighting it is that you will need to trust your own instincts.
You watched the systems who are meant to protect us collapse.
You saw that our planet needs saving and now.
You saw that they don’t care for us.
You watched the systems who are meant to protect us collapse.
You saw that our planet needs saving and now.
You saw that they don’t care for us.
My stirring anarchist tells me and you this:
Do not get distracted. Take a deep breath and truly think about what we need to learn from this and what the new normal needs to look like. Manifest in your heart what is true and right. What makes us feel safe and our lives richer.
Do not get distracted. Take a deep breath and truly think about what we need to learn from this and what the new normal needs to look like. Manifest in your heart what is true and right. What makes us feel safe and our lives richer.
Inspect your values from the perspective of what this situation has taught you and make brave decisions for the future. For yourself, for your communities and for the country you live in.
There are many ways we can use to manifest these new values.
There are many ways we can use to manifest these new values.
You can start in your own home and with your loved ones. How you want to spend your time and what you want to spend your money on. Who is important in your life and how you show them that they matter to you after we have learned that nothing is for granted.
Inject those new values into your communities, who needs protection and support and how we should never ever settle for a norm dictated to us by people who will not care for us when the time comes. You can lead and influence all your communities with these values.
And lastly... politics. Don’t take it from me, don’t take it from the media. You have seen with your own eyes and with your own life impacted what is wrong with every single system around us.
Let go of notions of loyalty and find it in your heart to vote for what is right.
Let go of notions of loyalty and find it in your heart to vote for what is right.
Take it from someone who has been gaslit for many years...
Trust yourself and your instincts. You’ve seen it with your own eyes and you are not crazy. Don’t let them downplay what happened and don’t let them lie to you.
The new normal needs to be different. Now more than ever.
Trust yourself and your instincts. You’ve seen it with your own eyes and you are not crazy. Don’t let them downplay what happened and don’t let them lie to you.
The new normal needs to be different. Now more than ever.
