The Societal change you require is a Society that is Horizontally structured based upon these attributes that portray your Honour as Human Being.
Honesty, Openness, integrity & a sense of justice tempered by Mercy.
It is Horizontal as it eschews Privileges since no-one is above nor below others
I am a democratic structuralist. Societies only get democracy if they are structured for democracy. The USA used to have some democratic structures in place but the Oligarchs/Republicans took them away. Fairness Doctrine, Concentration of Media Ownership, Citizens United and much much more.
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The Democracy you live in is a faux Democracy since Equality eschews privileges which your vertical structured requires to maintain its structure.
All equality means is that everyone has the same rights. An unhindered access to the resources of your Society which you also helped to obtain.
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Do you have unhindered access to the resources of your Society?
Do you have the same rights as everyone else in your Society.
Will leave you with a few words from those that came before us.
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The only school of genuine moral sentiment is society between equals. – John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less. – Joseph Addison. (1672 – 1719)
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Every individual has a property in their own person; this nobody has a right to but themselves. – John Locke (1632 – 1704)
Just something to think about.
Thank you. My degree is in sociology, but I actually have more classes in philosophy, and Mill was actually my gateway. Social philosophy was my primary interest and led me into sociology.
Therapy is about coping with pain. a human racked with fear and pain is ineffective at driving change in themselves…or society.
You are framing therapy as a form of DARVO in order to feel better about how angry and hopeless you feel. But those feelings, if sustained make change harder…
"The world will stay the same--you'll never change it. So find yourself somebody to love." I try to love myself and others, and accepting people as who and where they are.
I came to say the exact same thing. I just validate people, tell them they're not crazy, it’s the system… not them. And that a lot of us are experiencing another collective trauma.
Oh yeah - especially around nesting season!
I worked at a company years ago where these guys hung around. They get big and scary! One lady got pecked on the back of her head and had to have stitches.
My co-worker and I would take umbrellas with us on our walks. They'd come tearing after us, but we'd pop open the umbrella to use as a barrier (we'd be back-to-back doing this)
LOL.
I asked my work if a could have a livable wage instead of a $0.39 raise because just my rent costs more than half of my monthly pay and they sent me to my manager to get told 'that was an inappropriate thing to say'
Slight update, I did manage to convince my manager to at least give me a raise that was the original agreement once 1 year of experience was met, but it's still vastly under the livable wage where I am
I got told off (and didn’t get the job) because I stated at interview that they couldn’t retain staff because their annual leave was 💩. Only 4 wks off for being a front line social worker in the UK.
6 is needed at the very least.
MH of their staff not a top priority..so I called them out on it.
We all need societal change considering what is happening to our society now under Trump. But I agree, therapy is cool and it can help facilitate that societal change in the long run.
If we had universal mental healthcare and an end to stigma of mental illness, maybe ppl would get the help they'd need, and STOP VOTING FOR CAPITALIST SNOLLYGOSTERS!
I knew what you meant.
But how do you segue from one to the other? Throw in some Motley Crue and Suicidal Tendencies in the middle to build up to Danzig?
They asked me if I'm depressed because I get really sad about the people who can't afford to eat or don't have a home. Then said I have a chemical imbalance in my brain.
It's the "monopoly of violence" theory. Governments have a monopoly on violence through police and/or military. Ideally, a benevolent, ethical government (LMAO) will deploy that violence only as a last resort, to protect its citizens. In practice, however, it usually only protects the powerful.
Will not happen till people do the ground work with therapy and are able to link simple issues to world.
Example - not saying i do what I want and work as a cohesive unit
Understand everyone's position and find common ground
Most of all family commitment values (big reason for harris loss)
Therapy is a journey, not a destination. Occasionally, in the journey, one needs to take a break from improving,use your skills, and remind a bunch of Conservative motherf**kers they don't have any more privileges or rights on Mother Earth as we do.
Not one.
Distraught we discard our opportunities for hope that we make deliverance from our feelings by waiting. Put forth that reasoning leaves us suspended in disillusionment, and you find the recipe for our festering.
The Egg Farmers are taking advantage of the American People they are in greed mode and they don't want to take prices back down. Egg Farmers are trying to get us used to these prices.
The reason for the stock character of the Mentally Deranged Criminal is because attributing criminality to socioeconomic inequity is to criticize the American Way and scapegoating mental illness gives absolution from complicity in creating and perpetuating the situation.
In a sick society, healing yourself is resistance. Becoming your true self is a quiet revolution. Not closing off, but staying present. Connecting to others who are doing the same. That, too, is how the world begins to change.
My hope as a therapist and a human in therapy: that becoming a conscious human being, growing into your truest self through pain, is an answer. One that ripples — in families, in rooms, in systems that desperately need it.
Wifey and I attend weekly mental health counseling, and kiddo has socializaton and speech counseling (we each have a therapist). We work hard and we strive to better ourselves... Meanwhile, society has shit itself stupid and given up.
My therapy was spending a sunny Saturday joining tens of thousands of neighbors on the streets of my city. Snapped me out of a years long funk caused by lack of hope for America’s future. I found that hope again on April 5th.
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Actually, no. As of late the rot has been progressing at an alarmingly rapid rate.
Honesty, Openness, integrity & a sense of justice tempered by Mercy.
It is Horizontal as it eschews Privileges since no-one is above nor below others
The Democracy you live in is a faux Democracy since Equality eschews privileges which your vertical structured requires to maintain its structure.
All equality means is that everyone has the same rights. An unhindered access to the resources of your Society which you also helped to obtain.
Do you have unhindered access to the resources of your Society?
Do you have the same rights as everyone else in your Society.
Will leave you with a few words from those that came before us.
The only school of genuine moral sentiment is society between equals. – John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less. – Joseph Addison. (1672 – 1719)
Every individual has a property in their own person; this nobody has a right to but themselves. – John Locke (1632 – 1704)
Just something to think about.
https://bsky.app/profile/nifftycydonia.bsky.social/post/3lmyt4obqek2q
Be With Your Grief.
These affirmations aren’t meant to fix your pain—but to honor it, hold it, and walk with it.
You are allowed to feel everything, and still be healing.
Let this space be your breath, your pause, your comfort. 🌿✨
https://youtu.be/0F0lmp563ZE?si=zjUeJGvoZChbYiID
We need societal change.
You are framing therapy as a form of DARVO in order to feel better about how angry and hopeless you feel. But those feelings, if sustained make change harder…
😆
Oddly enough, it's also the motto for Natives, BIPOC, women, LGBTQ, non-Christians, & various other minorities.
It's almost as if only one demographic is truly comfortable.
I worked at a company years ago where these guys hung around. They get big and scary! One lady got pecked on the back of her head and had to have stitches.
LOL.
6 is needed at the very least.
MH of their staff not a top priority..so I called them out on it.
Having encountered cobras in real life—once in a kitchen where I was house-sitting in India—, I will say this checks out.
snollygoster
/snŏl′ē-gŏs″tər/
noun
One, especially a politician, who is guided by personal advantage rather than by consistent, respectable principles
But how do you segue from one to the other? Throw in some Motley Crue and Suicidal Tendencies in the middle to build up to Danzig?
Example - not saying i do what I want and work as a cohesive unit
Understand everyone's position and find common ground
Most of all family commitment values (big reason for harris loss)
Not one.
Namaste
I thought I was witnessing something "majestic."
Just to find out it's another goose attacking an asshole wearing a red cap.
Canadians really do dislike MAGA.
Lmao 😂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oivt8WwC_Ks
you need to change the people