I guess it’s because Industrial capitalism is structurally cynical and programmed on a scarcity mindset. When you add to that the often “quoted fact” that the carrying capacity of earth is thought to be 1.5 billion and histrionically Armageddon is programmed into the Anthropocene, that people respond much better to simpler stories than complex factual relationships even while their bodies might know better, then you get a recipe for Orwellian sagas.
There is no non painful way through transformation and we are fully in one now. So the cultural babble creates toxic bubbles which reduce much of the social bodies of individuals into nervous system reactions to non-contextual dangers with no actual risk of present attack. The last 70 years of movies, marketing and attention misuse as daily practice has brought western cultures especially the USA to be unable to discern and to quick to react into conflict without awareness. There are other components but those are just a few that are being used to steer hegemonic practice and instill fear and lack of consideration.
I can only agree (while the point was not to answer but just ask questions). I have most of the answers to these questions myself. And you are right scarcity mindset, cynicism, everyone in their mind no one in their bodies, the ANS doing its work trending towars sympathetic addiction, stories layered over stories etc
My heart and nervous system get pretty shredded and scattered by that many “whys”. So I reach out and “respond”. What is the sending going on? Does staying with the trouble of so many kinds, scales, layers and frequencies allow new collective and small group capacity building?
Personally what does that list of whys do with and without you?
Sitting with the discomfort is itself an embodied practice. If the nervous system is activated, it is because of fear and lack of trust in the process. Moving too quickly to solutions is a form of cognitive bypass — the same unconscious habit that created the problem in the first place. The body knows. The question is whether we can stay with what it knows long enough to let something new emerge.
As someone who spent some time in a cult, even though I was on the peripheral, the common denominator in everybody I met was arrogance. Narcissism. These people wanted more than anything to have “The Secret,” the special information that nobody else knew. Most of them were deeply insecure people, even though some of them were successful, the desperate need to have more information than everybody else took precedence over any possibility of logic and reason. Power and control, even when it came to secret knowledge was more valuable to them than truth.
I don’t think I have the answer, I just gave my personal experience based on someone who spent a lot of time with people who eventually spiraled down the QAnon rabbit hole
I guess it’s because Industrial capitalism is structurally cynical and programmed on a scarcity mindset. When you add to that the often “quoted fact” that the carrying capacity of earth is thought to be 1.5 billion and histrionically Armageddon is programmed into the Anthropocene, that people respond much better to simpler stories than complex factual relationships even while their bodies might know better, then you get a recipe for Orwellian sagas.
There is no non painful way through transformation and we are fully in one now. So the cultural babble creates toxic bubbles which reduce much of the social bodies of individuals into nervous system reactions to non-contextual dangers with no actual risk of present attack. The last 70 years of movies, marketing and attention misuse as daily practice has brought western cultures especially the USA to be unable to discern and to quick to react into conflict without awareness. There are other components but those are just a few that are being used to steer hegemonic practice and instill fear and lack of consideration.
I can only agree (while the point was not to answer but just ask questions). I have most of the answers to these questions myself. And you are right scarcity mindset, cynicism, everyone in their mind no one in their bodies, the ANS doing its work trending towars sympathetic addiction, stories layered over stories etc
My heart and nervous system get pretty shredded and scattered by that many “whys”. So I reach out and “respond”. What is the sending going on? Does staying with the trouble of so many kinds, scales, layers and frequencies allow new collective and small group capacity building?
Personally what does that list of whys do with and without you?
Sitting with the discomfort is itself an embodied practice. If the nervous system is activated, it is because of fear and lack of trust in the process. Moving too quickly to solutions is a form of cognitive bypass — the same unconscious habit that created the problem in the first place. The body knows. The question is whether we can stay with what it knows long enough to let something new emerge.
As someone who spent some time in a cult, even though I was on the peripheral, the common denominator in everybody I met was arrogance. Narcissism. These people wanted more than anything to have “The Secret,” the special information that nobody else knew. Most of them were deeply insecure people, even though some of them were successful, the desperate need to have more information than everybody else took precedence over any possibility of logic and reason. Power and control, even when it came to secret knowledge was more valuable to them than truth.
I personally have answers, I just thought questions were more efficient. I think many people have answers. It seems you do too!
I don’t think I have the answer, I just gave my personal experience based on someone who spent a lot of time with people who eventually spiraled down the QAnon rabbit hole
QAnon, that is another interesting rabit hole with nothing to envy to medieval obscurantism...