You can choose your own emotions. You are not a powerless reed in the wind. You are powerful enough to chose faith, hope, and love. You do not need to only relate
to positive people. You have positivity within yourself. You can choose what, and how you see.
Believe it.
China’s Chang’e-6 mission lander made a successful soft landing on the far side of the moon.
https://spacenews.com/change-6-lands-on-far-side-of-the-moon-to-collect-unique-lunar-samples/
Whatever the leverage points of State control are, separate from them and replace them with community solutions. Information,
Money, defense, utilities, food production, education, all of it.
Resistance through parallel polis.
Vaclav Havel’s essay, “The Power of the Powerless” in pdf.
https://cdn.satellite.earth/a5f1cfc703d652473c3a0e46aa0e28fe54c36a48eb109c37dbf05a9a30a74385.pdf
Interesting. I hadn’t considered that. Youre right. It’s open ended isn’t it. It’s like “we can fight this war no matter how much it costs you”
Well to be honest, I think you’re right. It is a losing battle.
Which is why we change the battle.
Vaclav Havel’s essay “ the Power of the Powerless” discusses this whole concept. Fight the system directly, you’ll lose, remove the system from your own life, in cooperation with others, and eventually the system collapses.
He wrote it in the Soviet Union.
Turns out, he was right.
Fitting that he became President of the Czech Republic later.
I think it has to start in my own little sphere. Removing as much bureaucracy and system depots I can. Otherwise you wind up trying to control things you can’t. I’m trying to change what I can.
But if everyone did that the system would crumble
Just my personal preference, but I like the flaws. I actually prefer them lately. They’re human.
Oh gosh. Now?
I think it’s a tumor the same size as the torso of the host.
Sorry. It’s gross, but seems apt.
If it’s not removed, it’s going to kill the host by sucking all the resources the host needs to sury
these are great 🤓 nostr:note18nysmpqhckv58qznjdnm7asj4cs53sngkrudqcytfglhfl09t6ks9zhvew
I think it’s less poetic.
I think it’s because bureaucracy is like Uranium. If it’s not confined and handled correctly it will kill you.
Imagine politicians telling someone they can’t live in a small house on their own property because it has wheels. And if it has wheels, the government can’t charge as much tax. So if you try it, we will use violence against you.
Sounds insane. But it happens every day.
And you just smile and take it like a good little slave. 😘
Americans are obsessed with war.
We see everything through that lens. War on drugs. War in poverty. War on obesity. War war war.
We are blunt instruments trying to bash everything into submission.
What’s worse, we’re proud of it.
A perfect example of the outcome of our warfare brains is how we grow food. We try to bash things into efficient boxes of plans and structures. We declare war on nature to bend it to our will. As long as the numbers of production are correct, that’s all that matters. Pay no attention to the ever decreasing yeilds, and ever decreasing nutrient content. We will just bash more chemical fertilizers into it. Declare war on it.
We engage the world the way we engage in diplomacy. Which is to force everything. Working with nature, or with systems different to our own seems insulting. Learning the natural ebbs and flows is too difficult. Bash it. Honk your horn. Make it move faster. We just need to work harder, and push more. Make it obey.
And yet, everything happening around us right now would indicate we might reconsider our blunt instrument approach to everything.
