I think a lot about this quote from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944:
“America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.
“America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.
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I genuinely struggle to think how Mexico or Canada will stop us just on military strength alone.
Let's hope it doesn't come to that, of course.
https://broadview.org/elon-musk-empathy-weakness/
Covers war to liberate occupied countries, concentration camps.
Amercan toughness front & center.
has devolved to prevalent American bloodthirst.
If you study #Autism you will find empathy is a constant topic. Even animals have empathy for other animals and they do not read books.
#Compassion is the world you are looking for, books like Buddha
I suggest you study the lifetime of work by New York Professor Joseph Campbell from Sarah Lawrence College.
I can’t tell if it’s willful blindness or just plain ignorance
IE the last election! 🤔
I was speaking from a more general perspective.
Such as no national healthcare or dedicated labor party.
I doubt the average MAGA is in tune with international fascism, but I do see your point.
It is concerning!
D.H. Lawrence: "The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted."
It’s the apex of wisdom.
Thought’s of dim, 1/2 and knit witted folks 👁️🔔👁️
Again this was back in the ‘30, and 40s. Before cable news and social media.
Gossip was just as prevalent then. Just not this big!
“The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity… "
I suggest the entire quote, link.
Before that, the uber-wealthy focused on hoarding money and achieving power.
It really is a mental disease.
“The reason why we find ourselves in a position of impotency is not because the enemy has sent men to invade our shores, but because of the traitorous actions of those who have had all the benefits that the wealthiest nation on earth has had to offer”…J. McCarthy, 1950
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Is total projection
“We find ourselves in a position of impotency not because the enemy has sent men to invade our shores, but because of the traitorous actions of those who have had all the benefits that the wealthiest nation on earth has had to offer…
Joseph McCarthy
So many nature-friendly people have succumbed to the temptation because of the seductive lure of its human supremacy/exceptionalism/entitlement.
I mean she was writing while ADOLF FUCKING HITLER was ruling Germany and she has the gall to criticize the US
??
Western protesters?
This is nonsense, of course. Thailand was under no threat of communism. And regardless of who you might have known socially, protesters in the West did not need communists to organize them against the war.
I knew both Western protesters and Communists.
In the war against Japan, Australian Communists were sabotaging the war effort, because Soviet Russia was fighting along side the German Nazis.
Vietnam was a Russian proxy war
If this isn’t an accurately scathing bar of critique then idk what is.
I think it’s part of what a client said to me the other day when I asked him “what is ‘freedom’ in the U.S.?”
“The right to pretend” was his reply..
It seems to me the country has a problem with reality
you ain’t got nothing to lose
—ain’tcient proverb
Just Googled her.
Poetic. Spot on.
Please repost everywhere you can.🦸♂️🦸♀️🦾💪🙋🙋♂️
🚫🤴👑 FIGHT TYRANNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then it's just a matter of defending those atrocious, inhuman behaviors by saying "It's not illegal!"
While Musk said he believes in empathy and that “you should care about other people,” he also thinks it’s destroying society.
It means you have had your morality washed away. #MoralityWashing
"That's what hate does. You can't see right. The symbol of objectivity is lost." - Martin Luther King Jr. #MLKJr
guess when the SHTF they can be war refugees.
We hit it all
And capable by an any machine.
He did not know what usaid did, and did not care, even after I explained Plumpy’nut to him. Just wanted it gone.
Their cult of toughness and hatred of decency has led to a selfish and odious worldview.
Trump supporters lost their kid to measles and are still anti-vax.
Literally told this dude the USAID budget, and some of the things they do. Did not care. Fully in favor of DOGE. Dude's voting GOP until death.
Better to use your energy elsewhere.
But "every dollar in humanitarian aid we spend saves or even earns us money elsewhere, preventing wars & getting us more favorable deals for resources" usually gets through
Our vaunted self- reliance, bootstrap and frontier mentality has left US unable to accept “ giving something for nothing” isn’t really “ giving something for nothing”
It’s taking care of
Selfishness has become the new mantra of those who already have refusing to share with those who don’t
There is no person or corporate entity in America that achieved success totally on their own
Everyone had help to reach the top
But amnesia is rampant on this fact in our country
Either way, you’re 100% spot on.
The USA was born cruel and will die cruel
Our courts have been purchased.
So have our politicians.
The bribery that bought them was codified into law in 2010.
That led to lax monopoly laws.
Our media and news was concentrated under the power of the same men who bought everything else.
We cannot vote our way out of this.
A The carpet baggers are coming to town
your town, your town
The Criminal Are a coming to pillage your government and loot our funds
Hiho hiho🎶
Yeah we will be permanently changed
The part where Alice is jumping down the rabbit hole🙀
Just for kicks, how do we get out of it then? Civil war is off the table…unless it’s mostly civil.
Ideas please. 😥
ELECT A CRIMINAL,
A CONVICTED FELON & ADJUDICATED RAPIST... you've lost any right to complain about the lack of governance or justice...
Next time make sure everyone you know VOTES ...these 👇 should be in every classroom in America
& Discussed daily
And if you didn't see what is coming you were sleeping...Trump laughed about how rich they were & how much richer they would be Tax CUTS on the way