I catch myself daydreaming of winning (as opposed to winsome) dialogs with my neighbor with whom I disagree on most great matters of hyperpolitics. The closer we get in our conversations to local matters, though, the more real-life agreement we find. Ideology only goes so far when our town is running out of water. True politics is mostly process, I think, and involving myself in process is possible in my here.
I agree: looking for a deus ex politici is faith misplaced. And as you and Rebecca Solnit (Orwell's Roses) remind us, we can't be political animals without private dens and nests to lay our heads.
This is so well expressed: "We confuse visibility with importance. Daily life is shaped in plain rooms, on dull agendas, before small audiences. Neglect the dull places, and the dramatic ones begin to crack."
More bread for my social and political journey. Thank you, William.
Thank you for this generous and wonderfully phrased response. “Winning as opposed to winsome” names the temptation almost too well. And yes: water has a way of disciplining ideology. The nearer politics gets to pipes, streets, schools, neighbors, and meetings that actually have to end with a decision, the more reality returns.
I’m especially grateful for your Solnit/Orwell reminder: no one can live perpetually at the barricades. Political animals still need dens, nests, gardens, porches, and bread.
Thank you for reading so closely, and for adding bread of your own.
The media - both news and entertainment - have now politicized nearly everything in our society as an extremely powerful mechanism of control.
Politicization is so effective at manipulating the populace because most people emotionally connect their personal belief system to the belief system of their political party, and so then any attack on their party - legitimate or otherwise - is interpreted by their brain as an attack on themselves. Reason and logic then jump out the nearest window as raw emotion takes the helm, thus making them even more susceptible to the predatory controlling influences.
Most people will not act to secure their future, so long as they feel they have an advocate fighting for them in the public or political arenas. This is why Republican vs Democrat equals divide and conquer (we fight amongst ourselves while they decimate our support systems and establish totalitarian control). The human mind is binary. Our thought process can often be boiled down into terms (often ultimatums) of – this or that – and our adversaries understand - very well - the art of this war.
I catch myself daydreaming of winning (as opposed to winsome) dialogs with my neighbor with whom I disagree on most great matters of hyperpolitics. The closer we get in our conversations to local matters, though, the more real-life agreement we find. Ideology only goes so far when our town is running out of water. True politics is mostly process, I think, and involving myself in process is possible in my here.
I agree: looking for a deus ex politici is faith misplaced. And as you and Rebecca Solnit (Orwell's Roses) remind us, we can't be political animals without private dens and nests to lay our heads.
This is so well expressed: "We confuse visibility with importance. Daily life is shaped in plain rooms, on dull agendas, before small audiences. Neglect the dull places, and the dramatic ones begin to crack."
More bread for my social and political journey. Thank you, William.
Thank you for this generous and wonderfully phrased response. “Winning as opposed to winsome” names the temptation almost too well. And yes: water has a way of disciplining ideology. The nearer politics gets to pipes, streets, schools, neighbors, and meetings that actually have to end with a decision, the more reality returns.
I’m especially grateful for your Solnit/Orwell reminder: no one can live perpetually at the barricades. Political animals still need dens, nests, gardens, porches, and bread.
Thank you for reading so closely, and for adding bread of your own.
The Binary Thought Control Matrix
The media - both news and entertainment - have now politicized nearly everything in our society as an extremely powerful mechanism of control.
Politicization is so effective at manipulating the populace because most people emotionally connect their personal belief system to the belief system of their political party, and so then any attack on their party - legitimate or otherwise - is interpreted by their brain as an attack on themselves. Reason and logic then jump out the nearest window as raw emotion takes the helm, thus making them even more susceptible to the predatory controlling influences.
Most people will not act to secure their future, so long as they feel they have an advocate fighting for them in the public or political arenas. This is why Republican vs Democrat equals divide and conquer (we fight amongst ourselves while they decimate our support systems and establish totalitarian control). The human mind is binary. Our thought process can often be boiled down into terms (often ultimatums) of – this or that – and our adversaries understand - very well - the art of this war.
Excerpt from: https://tritorch.substack.com/p/there-is-something-way-bigger-going
Mr Green, please read ^ that, I think you may find it well worth your time.
Thanks for this. Yes, will read!