“Our hearts know that a more beautiful world is possible … but our minds do not know that it’s possible. … Our understanding of causality, even, doesn’t allow for a path from here to there.
“Our stories have kind of an immune system that keeps them intact as long as possible. … Things aren’t working so well anymore and it’s a lot harder to fully believe in our stories. … they are falling apart … and birthing us into a new understanding of what’s real and what’s possible and who we are. And in that new story, that logic of the heart that says that ‘Yeah, I know that this is a significant act and I know that everything I do is significant’ no longer contradicts the logic of the mind which had been the logic of separation.”
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OK. I listened to the whole thing. While I enjoy a rousing sermon as much as anybody I have found that the most inspiring speeches are the ones, on reflection, that contain the most pitfalls. In bad times people want good stories. There are no good stories that ring true for an increasing majority of the world’s population. One of the reasons for this is that it feels bad to not give people the benefit of the doubt. An entire criminal profession is built on using that to gain unwarranted confidence. While it is true that the system itself and not individual actors is the source of our discontents, it is equally true that this broken system finds broken people very useful and whole people a threat. This system rules by assigning people to roles for which they are unqualified, ON PURPOSE. So, from my point of view it does little good to sit down with a brain damaged hyper-intelligent sociopath, self styled master of the Universe, that has been promoted to a position of centralized control by this sick system. I don’t deny them their humanity, it is just that they are damaged in a way that makes it impossible for such people to accept mine. As long as we have these hierarchical structures that privilege sociopathic thinking we will be ruled by sociopaths who will lead us into extinction – because they are unable to care. This is the essence of the importance of rule from the bottom, or as the US founding “fathers” (of slave children?) referred to us, the mob.
We have come to a parting of the road and we may have missed the turn off that has a future, but just in case, we ought to get busy and express the power of the multitude which is the only power greater than the hyper-intelligent sociopath with his fingers on the levers of coercive power and the states monopoly of force.
ybera