Emerald

This is just one of her videos. She posts several a day... many with practical solutions. This one was just a response to a comment where the person was under the impression that violent resistance is better than non-violent resistance and she was debunking that. But she shares on her videos more generally how to get organized and engaged in active resistance... just not on this specific video. I wanted to share it anyway because it's a useful message.

That's true too. But it's helpful to do some practical organizing to be united to push back in numbers for when they try to push something.

When I was a teenager, I used to believe the same thing. So, I was very much entrenched in my little Stage Orange perspective... totally oblivious to the way the world really operates. And I would have all sorts of ways of rationalizing away the sexism that I'd experience... because I didn't want my little bubble to pop. I was socially conditioned to believe that bigotry and discrimination on the basis of race and gender was a thing of the past that Martin Luther King solved in the 1960s.... such that I thought (in the 90s) that we already lived in a world that had transcended these issues. And that was a SUPER common thought process that many white kids got taught in that era. But then, I actually experienced the world. And the reality is, is that about 20% of people are overtly racist and sexist. Then, 70% of people are unconsciously racist and sexist but consciously disagree with racism and sexism and don't even want to look at their own racism and sexism, and 10% of people are actually well educated on these matters and trying to move society to become conscious of these under-currents in society and to fix these issues. And going into denial about the white supremacist and patriarchal ways of the Western world just means that you're not seeing the reality. And when you don't see the reality, you propose solutions that don't work... and you act as a divisive force that enables the powers that be to divide and conquer. I've come across several posts on this forum that are like, "Progressives need to stop focusing on trans issues. It just pushes people away from the movement." But the reality is that, we can only be successful if we have a unified group working towards wide-spread class consciousness. But you can't go, "Hey, join our movement. But you trans people, gay people, women, and minorities need to stop complaining about being treated unfairly. That's a thing of the past anyway... says me someone who never qualified for that treatment in my life." You can see how that's not tenable because you only want to focus on the progressive issues that impact you... but not the ones that impact others. You consider the ones that impact others as trivial and unimportant. So, you become an agent of the powers that be's divide and conquer tactic.

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100% Spot on. The cult of hyper-individualism and superiority through isolation (that's also a social forum which operates completely off of group think).

Check out Parkrose Permaculture. Her channel is excellent for practical tactics.

That's amazing!

@Elliott I'm planning on attending this Saturday.

@DocWatts I have stumbled across Knitting Cult Lady's channel a couple times. But I'll have to give her a closer watch. But I really appreciate Parkrose Permaculture's focus on raising morale and giving actionable steps for pushing back. I deliberately tuned out from politics about a year ago because I felt that most lefty creators were doing one of four things... Just sharing the new through a Lefty lens Doomerism Leftist in-fighting where one pundit has a beef with another pundit Empty philosophical ponderings But each of these things don't mobilize people to do anything productive to push back on rising authoritarianism. So, I just took the perspective of tune out 99%... but keep my ear to the ground so that I can protect my family if the shit hits the fan. Her channel is just really refreshing that it's like "Don't give up hope. Do these action steps."

We can have that argument from 2016 on another thread, if you'd like. But the hour is later than you think. And this video is about non-violent practical tactics for resisting against the authoritarianism of the current administration. It's not a place for endless semantic arguments about things that should be obvious in the year 2025.

Isn't that pretty obvious?

See! You get the point.

Yes. People really struggle with calling a spade a spade when it comes to the rise of American Fascism.

Neither men nor women are disposable. Men are just as valid and valuable as women are. Stop being a misandrist.

Stop listening to this nonsense. There are no disposable people.... even if some societies have treated it as such or needed to adapt that way.

It's a really common pitfall that those who are on the path can fall into. I used to fall into this one myself about a decade ago. And it's just another ego trap. But it also arises primary as a coping strategy for dealing with feelings of disconnection. One seeks to be the "superior one" relative to the normies because they feel a sense of not fitting. The reality is that God is just as over-joyed to incarnate as a pleb as it is to incarnate as a "serious Truth-seeker"... as it is to incarnate as a sea barnacle. And anyone who is trying so hard to differentiate their human character from other human characters is just operating off of the tendency towards ego differentiation, which is in the opposite direction of Love and Truth. Anyone who is in this trap has a spiritual path that's highly influenced by the Shadow of what they're pushing away on the ordinary human level.

You sure do say and think it a lot though... don't you? But the Leo character is not superior to any of the other human characters. He's not even wiser than them half the time.

This is just more "Look how superior I am to the unconscious plebs" talk that's common in the group think on this forum. It's just a bad habit that you've picked up from Leo. If Leo didn't talk like this... you wouldn't be talking like this. There's no "serious development" about it.

Personally, I don't think that's a very good strategy. I've experienced many many times where guys have immediately conveyed to me that they're attracted to me and want to go on a date with me, and it always read to me as, "This guy does this with just about every woman." And I see it as a tell about his priorities and personality. Who knows? Maybe it would work with some women. But I wouldn't count on a woman being receptive to a date invitation upon the first meeting... unless it happens in a night club or something like that where it's specifically a place where it's common for people to express interest and hook up. I've always needed a bit of a platonic slow burn for my feelings for someone to blossom.

It doesn't matter if you intend it as group think or not. First off, people are influenced by thought leaders. That's just the reality of it. You can't be in the business you're in without inviting some level of group think. Anyone who steps into a leadership position and creates a movement can only do so because human beings have a natural tendency towards "group think." Without group think, there would be no Actualized.org... or any other group, movement, philosophy, or institution. And the entirety of civilization is only able to exist because of group think. So, there is a positive and a negative side to group think. All the best and worst things come from it. But when we refer to it in the positive, we refer to it as a movement or institution or community or organization... etc. That's why I said that a communal Ayahuasca ceremony would do you some good... as you have a strong polarization against this component of being human. But moreso than that... any leader that presents themselves as certainly and "beyond that" as you do will invite lots of group think... as you are claiming superior leader status when you do that. You are conveying, "Look at me and listen to me. I am different than you and better than you." So, you may discourage group think with your direct words. But you encourage group think with the way you share your perspectives, as your positioning is always like, "Alright you plebs. Try to get on my level. But I bet you can't as you guys just aren't on my level." If you want to really discourage negative group think to the highest degree that a thought leader is capable, you have to walk the walk of being a bit more humble and human. And a big part of that is not blaming people who watch you for falling into group think. The reality is that human beings are incredibly vulnerable. And it's incumbent upon leaders to check themselves if a sizable portion of their audience is falling into negative group think. The reality is that you're not "beyond" anyone. You're human like everyone else. And accepting that would likely help you tremendously towards your stated goals.

Yes. I can relate to that. I just feel so responsible for teaching people to use basic empathy and to use common sense. I think it's mostly because I feel a lot of fear around people holding harmful nonsensical and unempathetic perspectives, as I know that society is plastic and can pick them up and normalize them. And then it, if that happens, madness gets seen as normal... andit becomes EVERYBODY'S problem. (Gestures vaguely at everything) Hence Exhibit A. So, I'm trying to avert global crisis EVERY SINGLE TIME I'm trying to get someone to see sense. And it doesn't work. And it's exhausting. But it's hard to let go of the "Let me teach them out of it!" But the reality is that it is what it is. It's not my responsibility to prevent it... even though it is problem (and all of our problems) to deal with it.

Use a bit of empathy. What if you were texting with someone and you started liking their personality and feeling a connection. And you found out they were an AI bot the whole time? Would you like that?

Yeah, I gotta just let it go. I feel too easily responsible for trying to speak sense to someone who is clearly locked into their own perspective. It's part of my own neuroses around feeling responsible for people.

It's good to come to that realization. And like Natasha mentioned, most people go through that. Prior to having my YouTube channel, I had similar thoughts before. It was like, "If only people that I know can see how highly developed and wise my perspective is." And there was a judgment of other people for not being on the same wavelength. But once I had my YouTube channel, I was able to interact with a lot of other people who had similar interests. And I was able to trade that sense of superiority for real community. And it made me realize that a lot of my tendency to differentiate myself came from loneliness and unmet social needs... but also as a coping strategy to make myself feel better than others. But talking with a bunch of other people who are on this wavelength, just makes me realize that it's just another way to be human among thousands of other ways to be human.

I think you'd benefit most of all from a communal Ayahuasca retreat.... especially since you have a resistance to it. A little dose of what you call "group think" would be very healing for you. But also consider... this forum is group think... and your retreats would also be group think. It's just group think that's lead by you as the thought leader.