9.5.25 - Finding Courage

The slaughter and starvation of Palestinians goes on. I'm not quite sure what is going on with the Zionists of 'Israel'. Are they assholes because they are a colonial hang over, or are they ass holes because of the collective trauma they faced?

Could it be both? Often I think, well, you know, people who are traumatised are often assholes. Children who were abused become adults who abuse children. Mothers-in-laws often bully daughters-in-laws because they too were bullied. Children who had abused parents end up becoming abusive too.

Colonialism often used the most dispossessed and desperate to colonise land, to take from the local population. Settlers use this playbook. Armies as well. Army recruitment grounds are often in places where young men don't have very much to live for. Army ads specifically say this - look at all the opportunities we can give you - you can travel, learn to drive, get a GCSE, have a trade. Belong.

So it is useful for the people who need the bodies, the useful idiots, and I include the civil servants who facilitate this, so it isn't just all the log lifters and gun holders, to make sure there is always a section of the population whom they can draw on.

Class and identity have long been the sharp end of the stick of violence and colonialism. They're Catholic, you're Protestant - sure you both have more in common with each other than with us, but THEY are your enemy. They're Jewish and you are Muslim, they're Arab and you are white - sure you both are struggling to put food on the table and you have been persecuted by the same assholes, but god forbid that you think you could help each other.

Of all the mayas, this is possibly the most insidious. The maya of difference in human beings. Even on the most basic level, human beings managed to create a kind of monoculture. For instance, and I don't want to get essentiallist here, but Great Tits, CANNOT breed with Blue Tits. They can't ok. Otters cannot breed with Mink. They're from the same family, but they are evolved down different chains.

If you are a human being, it does not matter what race, colour, religion, class you come from, you are able to reproduce with each other. 

What is different about us? Language, culture. THAT'S IT.

And we can learn each other's language and culture. It's like after all these years of evolving, we became specialists at different things so that we could make each other's lives richer and better. South East Asia is a wonderful example of this. This mix of Malay, South Asian, East Asian, Polynesian... the food, the art, the technology - it's truly wonderful. We borrow and we meld and merge. We tell jokes and we create new ways of thinking and speaking, singing and arting.

We are at our best when we are playing and intermarrying and developing the beauty of the human race. Yet, for some reason, well not for some reason, but at the behest of these people of hate and greed, we have agreed to put blinkers on our shared life. Our shared life with this planet. It's nuts.

Look at this place... the Garden of Eden is not an erstwhile, magical mythical place in Mesopotamia, but a metaphor for this planet. The lion does not lie down with the lamb, but its shares the same atmosphere and the conditions which give it life and sustain it. 

The EARTH is the Garden of Eden. We are already existing in Paradise. It is not some place you go after you die. It is place we all have been born into. And how do we choose to regard this gift which we have been given? We say it sucks. It sucks guys. OMG there are snakes and sharp things and also this terrible thing DEATH.

Is death so terrible? Death is only terrible because we miss the one who has died and because life is so wonderful. Instead of making the most of life so that we can celebrate the crossing of the threshold, we decide to torture ourselves needlessly.

The most needless torture being the creation of these false divisions according to how we look. How we choose to love. How we regard ourselves. 

We have to be truly insane to fall for this shit.

There is no point hoping that these dickheads, the one in charge will do anything different. They only know a single way - and that is the way of power. And they mistakenly think that power comes from fear and violence. It is up to every one of us to say that power comes from love and solidarity. Fuck em. They are the unevolved assholes. No matter how rich or lauded you are, if you come up with this thinking, you are unevolved, sorry.

The good news is that, you CAN be evolved. Many years ago, Christ did have this wonderful analogy of it being easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to go to heaven. In this case, the rich man is a metaphor for someone invested in the system of power, and heaven is the place where we feel oneness with each other. 

Every time I see someone who has million, billions, all I see is someone who has decided to live their lives amassing more money than they know what to do with. Hoarding. It is a kleptocracy. A kind of mental illness. Imagine living a life knowing that people like or hate you because of your wealth, not of whom you are. That is a kind of radical impoverishment.

Just as we cannot expect addicts and obsessives to make things better before they themselves get better, we cannot look to these losers for leadership. All this wealth should be a indicator of abject failure, not success. These trappings are literally trappings.

We just walk away, give our attention to the things which merit our attention. The people whom we are with and connect to and love, the world which is around us - OURSELVES. These people exist outside time, space, sanity and love.

There are a million billion ways to be part of the fabric of life in life. Everyone can do it now. Courage, courage, courage.