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Margaret Anna Alice's avatar

That Auschwitz Memorial tweet is perfect for an article I’m working on now—thank you for alerting me to it, Ann!

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Beach Hippie's avatar

"We all need to be careful. Hate is easier that you think. And it hides behind things like fear, self-righteousness and, these days, social justice."

I dig this.

Instead of feeling disdain for the moment and people we think are causing it we can point to the systems and the emotional thrust behind them in critiques, but blaming people, feeling superior, and wanting revenge of some kind, man, that ain't goin nowhere.

And I find we often turn to the darkness for solutions when we feel a fear. People get murderous fast, too reactionary, instead of facing a situation head on and defusing they often make everything worse by creating unnecessary enemies by trying to dominate the situation.

But this is the age of the petty tyrant, and as Carlos Castaneda made note of, if the petty tyrant makes us angry, sad, lost in pain, or anything else other than whistling a different tune with a smile in our heart through all that noise then we'll ultimately become the petty tyrant because we'll be using their tactics to handle the situation, and hence further the rule of the petty tyrant.

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