We're not just a system of leaders. We're a system of participants in every level of society & culture.
It’s easy to get millions of people to point the finger at a single politician & say: YOU need to change.
It’s very difficult to get the same people to hold up a mirror & say: I need to change.
It’s easy to get millions of people to point the finger at a single politician & say: YOU need to change.
It’s very difficult to get the same people to hold up a mirror & say: I need to change.
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I chewed her out & she wrote back “We don’t need permission from you.”
P.S. She’s a Trump voter.
I wrote, “You weren’t even elected, you’re just the only homeowner who volunteered to do free labor. You act like you’re the boss, because you’re too ignorant to realize you’re the unpaid laborer."
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She got into the position because nobody else wanted it. And then began to act like a tyrant. Possessive of power.
It’s no coincidence she loves Trump.
What hope have we of reigning in the false sense of power our elected officials feel?
Not to mention our preferential and proportional representation for candidates and parties.
#auspol
Like a lifelong smoker ruminating about their diagnosis of stage 4 lung cancer. #mirror
But it is true that fewer people listened to me back then when I said it.
But, a lot of people associate critical thinking with criticism or analysis of what OTHER people are doing wrong.
In my experience, this perpetuates scapegoating & deflection.
Because when you’re in denial or deflecting from something you don’t want to admit about yourself, it will still “leak out” onto your perceptions of others.
This was drilled into me.
I was taught that self-reflection & self-awareness were more powerful than pointing the finger elsewhere.
And it’s only then - after we take responsibility for our own defects, that we can have clarity about the defects of others.
Likewise, the law is no better than the people charged with enforcing it.
Humans confer power based not on whether someone would be good at wielding power, but on whether they are good at getting power.
Because we like to imagine that people in power are clever and know what they’re doing, we feel compelled to perform intellectual gymnastics in pursuit of sticking rational explanations onto egregious stupidity.
We have warnings and never heed them, historically. Like a loop of stupidity. Not surprised.
If we can’t face the truth at some point, whether privately, or publicly, we can’t grow or change.
I have never understood why so many associate admitting to faults or mistakes equals weakness.
His cults is just wrong,
It’s not their faith that is blind, it’s their hatred.