I really appreciate your thinking and your writing. I agree completely. The infighting is unfortunate, and some of it is by design, some arises from within. Some egos get in the way of our higher purpose. Sometimes we are pitted against each other, like right and left. I feel like disparagement is our national sport. Thanks for your contribution to the healing process.
Thank you, Diane. Yes, I think the infighting is hardest to witness sometimes. We have some ugly ways of discharging discomfort - human nature is messy. Hopefully we don't lose the lessons here.
I don't think that virus/no virus is the hill, or at least not directly. The hill is proven/unproven. The entire pandemic was part of a systematic attack on meaning and sense; masks, social distancing, martial law, all of them are inversions of reality. That is the classic trick of totalitarianism; to get people to say up is down, black is white, and to accept things without evidence, and so one of the foundational defences against the march of totalitarianism becomes truth. There's no evidence for contagious viruses just as there's no evidence that vaccines prevent you catching them, and so for people who purport to be fighting for freedom to stay wedded to a them doesn't seem to me like a a small thing, it seems like everything.
I hear you, Dominic. I don't disagree about the totalitarian tactics. I don't know about the proven/disproven hill though. "There is no evidence" is a commonly used tactic, however, and it's not conclusive. It's not that I believe there's a virus. And we ultimately agree. I just think a much bigger hill is how we treat and regard each other when we don't agree. Accusations of "controlled opposition" and other undermining behavior towards people who are otherwise on the same team will only hurt us. We need to amplify the best in each other.
I certainly agree with you completely that we need to "amplify the best in each other" but we need to understand who the good guys we want to amplify are. I'm in with anyone who sees the bigger picture and wants to find a way for humanity to move towards a pre-industrial world. Everyone else is only prolonging the agony.
I really appreciate your thinking and your writing. I agree completely. The infighting is unfortunate, and some of it is by design, some arises from within. Some egos get in the way of our higher purpose. Sometimes we are pitted against each other, like right and left. I feel like disparagement is our national sport. Thanks for your contribution to the healing process.
Thank you, Diane. Yes, I think the infighting is hardest to witness sometimes. We have some ugly ways of discharging discomfort - human nature is messy. Hopefully we don't lose the lessons here.
I don't think that virus/no virus is the hill, or at least not directly. The hill is proven/unproven. The entire pandemic was part of a systematic attack on meaning and sense; masks, social distancing, martial law, all of them are inversions of reality. That is the classic trick of totalitarianism; to get people to say up is down, black is white, and to accept things without evidence, and so one of the foundational defences against the march of totalitarianism becomes truth. There's no evidence for contagious viruses just as there's no evidence that vaccines prevent you catching them, and so for people who purport to be fighting for freedom to stay wedded to a them doesn't seem to me like a a small thing, it seems like everything.
I hear you, Dominic. I don't disagree about the totalitarian tactics. I don't know about the proven/disproven hill though. "There is no evidence" is a commonly used tactic, however, and it's not conclusive. It's not that I believe there's a virus. And we ultimately agree. I just think a much bigger hill is how we treat and regard each other when we don't agree. Accusations of "controlled opposition" and other undermining behavior towards people who are otherwise on the same team will only hurt us. We need to amplify the best in each other.
I certainly agree with you completely that we need to "amplify the best in each other" but we need to understand who the good guys we want to amplify are. I'm in with anyone who sees the bigger picture and wants to find a way for humanity to move towards a pre-industrial world. Everyone else is only prolonging the agony.