The the Nuremberg of modern western capitalistic society (remember the “I just followed orders”?). The fastest way for bureaucracy to win is to always say yes to requests, but do no nothing about it, let it rot in a pile.
We can’t fight it, we can’t complain. If we ask for solutions, we are told we are resistant, reluctant, non cooperatives…If we don’t we just lose options.
For myself, I often think thing effort to get through is not worth it. Even if I win, the energetic cost will kill me. So I opted out. The least I contribute, the better I feel. It is called pacific resistance and that is the fastest to crash the system (hey, it does not work anyway…).
Also, let’s remember we are observing a dying system and the trying a last hurrah is what dying systems do. Unpleasant for sure, but this is the moment we have been waiting for.
What’s frightening about the system is that we are all in it, and the vast majority are unaware of how much of their identity is tethered…no…anchored to everything.
When we look at our roots, most of us won’t like where they go. That’s why the majority look straight ahead, neither up, nor down, nor to the side.
Tunnel vision is the being dominated by a little square that consumes more and more of our time.
Yes, yes, and yes. The systemic nature of all of this and the downhill flow of the excrement is duly noted. But the hollowing out leaves us fractured and angry, which further entrenches the evil. It’s not evil in the person as much as it’s the evil that we tolerate in the system. And with the murder by ICE agents yesterday, the system will protect the murderer and the excrement will flow downhill, and fallow all of us to our graves.
He perceives very clearly that the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. (Albert Einstein talking about Pablo Casals)
I think ‘we’ can do a lot more. We can exit these systems, one at a time. By playing along, even if you’re questioning things/processes/reasoning, it still enables the systems to exist.
It’s never been easier to do so. Globalization and free tools give people unprecedented opportunities to break the cycle.
I was one to always ask questions. To rebel against policies. But that only goes so far. Because the herd enables policies to exist, overriding one lone wolf.
Eventually you need to decide if you want to keep operating in their system, or build a life with systems you’ve purposely designed.
Yes, ‘nail on the head’, as they say. We have to look at the systems we live under. This problem has it’s orignin in the misuse (in turn based on lack of understanding) of computer systems, and has the potential to get a lot worse. Some thoughts on how we move to a different kind of understanding here:
That’s really important! The issue isn’t the technology itself, but the authority we’ve handed it without understanding its limits. When judgment gets mistaken for computation, responsibility goes, poofff. ♥️
It is, as you made nicely clear in your article, one of the biggest causes of the rampant disfunction we see everywhere around us. I think it is also interesting to recognise that the procedural and mechanistic thinking which is the root of it was already there before computers, rooted in materialist science and the view of the universe and everyting in it as a kind of machine. Computers then just put that on steroids.
We don’t know who or what to believe anymore. We don’t trust the systems and the people working in the systems don’t trust us. Their basic assumption is that we are lying - about our health, our disabilities and our hardships - while those who do not suffer from the consequences of decades of political choices that led us to where we are now, decide that we don’t meet the threshold for disability benefits, and tell us to stop moaning while they play the victim if their taxes are raised a tiny amount, or they say something outrageous and then moan about being “cancelled”. Loudly and repeatedly.
I hear you on this! Being assumed dishonest while carrying real hardship is exhausting and dehumanizing. I’m okay, I really appreciate you checking in. I hope you’re holding up too! ♥️
I’m just about holding it together, thank you. The world news is a bit alarming though. Trump is completely crazy and no one seems to want to, or be able to, stop him. And he is just the figurehead of years of dehumanising people and an almost inevitable result of policies begun by Reagan and Thatcher and built upon by subsequent presidents and prime ministers.
I was distraught at the shooting in Minnesota. How has this become “normal”? Along with the smear campaign about the poor woman who has been labelled a “dangerous terrorist” when she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time? It’s heinous.
Apart from that, we are expecting a weather bomb tomorrow (that is all the winter weather all in one go - wind, rain, snow, ice etc) which should be fun 😉
Hope you are in a more temperate part of where you live ❤️
Brilliant article. Very well written and encompasses what ma y feel today , whether they know it or not. By that I mean most people seem to have been blindsided by radical social media that allows them not to just feel like they have the moral high ground, but that they are the victims.
The rise of the Billionaire has also led to a get out clause for the well off: I work hard for my money, it's the billionaires that are taking all the wealth.
Despite the Tesla, the Range Rover and the newly built concrete and glass badges of honour of the very wealthy.
What they are really saying is ‘I'm the same as you, I have to get up in the morning’, but it's not the same when you have cars and a house worth £750000 and your employees can't get a mortgage but are paying for someone else's, who are watching their daily food bill get beyond their means.
So our middle class has been eaten up, everyone is a ‘hard working person except those that need to claim benefits, despite the majority of people claiming benefits are actually working, but their wages don't touch the sides anymore.
AND intent would require someone to be accountable.
“Just following orders”. Which — If I’m not mistaken, and remembering my reading of Shirer’s “Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” — was the “defense” offered by many in the “Nuremberg Trials” of yesteryear:
Yes this is #true I suppose so I don't know how we are this bad it's awful it was funny till it wasn't .....#grief #human is #poor
Yes. You see it, I too. <3 The neolib/con mechanism.
Here is what we can do now. In the comments is the overall road map.
please spread. ?
https://svanstroll.substack.com/p/this-is-it-things-are-moving-how
Always, keep the receipts !
Dreadfully accurate!
The the Nuremberg of modern western capitalistic society (remember the “I just followed orders”?). The fastest way for bureaucracy to win is to always say yes to requests, but do no nothing about it, let it rot in a pile.
We can’t fight it, we can’t complain. If we ask for solutions, we are told we are resistant, reluctant, non cooperatives…If we don’t we just lose options.
For myself, I often think thing effort to get through is not worth it. Even if I win, the energetic cost will kill me. So I opted out. The least I contribute, the better I feel. It is called pacific resistance and that is the fastest to crash the system (hey, it does not work anyway…).
Also, let’s remember we are observing a dying system and the trying a last hurrah is what dying systems do. Unpleasant for sure, but this is the moment we have been waiting for.
From great challenges come great opportunities.
Love
What’s frightening about the system is that we are all in it, and the vast majority are unaware of how much of their identity is tethered…no…anchored to everything.
When we look at our roots, most of us won’t like where they go. That’s why the majority look straight ahead, neither up, nor down, nor to the side.
Tunnel vision is the being dominated by a little square that consumes more and more of our time.
This is so accurate. It feels like you are fighting so hard when appealing anything and the time involved is ridiculous.
When duty forgets the face in front of it, harm becomes invisible.
In our tradition, dharma is always personal.
Action carries weight only when someone is willing to stand behind it.
Without that inner accountability, systems move, but truth does not.
No regrets
Yes, yes, and yes. The systemic nature of all of this and the downhill flow of the excrement is duly noted. But the hollowing out leaves us fractured and angry, which further entrenches the evil. It’s not evil in the person as much as it’s the evil that we tolerate in the system. And with the murder by ICE agents yesterday, the system will protect the murderer and the excrement will flow downhill, and fallow all of us to our graves.
The systemic tolerance is the heart of it ♥️ once harm is normalized, accountability erodes.
He perceives very clearly that the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. (Albert Einstein talking about Pablo Casals)
I think ‘we’ can do a lot more. We can exit these systems, one at a time. By playing along, even if you’re questioning things/processes/reasoning, it still enables the systems to exist.
It’s never been easier to do so. Globalization and free tools give people unprecedented opportunities to break the cycle.
I was one to always ask questions. To rebel against policies. But that only goes so far. Because the herd enables policies to exist, overriding one lone wolf.
Eventually you need to decide if you want to keep operating in their system, or build a life with systems you’ve purposely designed.
Agree! Parallel systems are becoming less optional and more necessary. ♥️
Yes, ‘nail on the head’, as they say. We have to look at the systems we live under. This problem has it’s orignin in the misuse (in turn based on lack of understanding) of computer systems, and has the potential to get a lot worse. Some thoughts on how we move to a different kind of understanding here:
michaelwarden.substack.com/p/ai-the-refreshing-truth
That’s really important! The issue isn’t the technology itself, but the authority we’ve handed it without understanding its limits. When judgment gets mistaken for computation, responsibility goes, poofff. ♥️
It is, as you made nicely clear in your article, one of the biggest causes of the rampant disfunction we see everywhere around us. I think it is also interesting to recognise that the procedural and mechanistic thinking which is the root of it was already there before computers, rooted in materialist science and the view of the universe and everyting in it as a kind of machine. Computers then just put that on steroids.
Gosh, this hit hard.
We don’t know who or what to believe anymore. We don’t trust the systems and the people working in the systems don’t trust us. Their basic assumption is that we are lying - about our health, our disabilities and our hardships - while those who do not suffer from the consequences of decades of political choices that led us to where we are now, decide that we don’t meet the threshold for disability benefits, and tell us to stop moaning while they play the victim if their taxes are raised a tiny amount, or they say something outrageous and then moan about being “cancelled”. Loudly and repeatedly.
I hope you are doing ok, Mariah.
I hear you on this! Being assumed dishonest while carrying real hardship is exhausting and dehumanizing. I’m okay, I really appreciate you checking in. I hope you’re holding up too! ♥️
I’m just about holding it together, thank you. The world news is a bit alarming though. Trump is completely crazy and no one seems to want to, or be able to, stop him. And he is just the figurehead of years of dehumanising people and an almost inevitable result of policies begun by Reagan and Thatcher and built upon by subsequent presidents and prime ministers.
I was distraught at the shooting in Minnesota. How has this become “normal”? Along with the smear campaign about the poor woman who has been labelled a “dangerous terrorist” when she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time? It’s heinous.
Apart from that, we are expecting a weather bomb tomorrow (that is all the winter weather all in one go - wind, rain, snow, ice etc) which should be fun 😉
Hope you are in a more temperate part of where you live ❤️
“Just doing my job” doesn’t eliminate choice, it hides it.
The question isn’t whether systems cause harm. It’s who is willing to notice where discretion still exists and what they do with it.
EXACTLYYY! Systems don’t erase choice, they conceal it. Noticing where discretion still exists is where responsibility starts/begins. ♥️
Thank you for this writing!
What is the solution please?
Naming the problem is step one, and reintroducing responsibility. ♥️ LOL
Responsibility is a warm and fuzzy feeling however it is useless without accountability.
How do you intend to introduce that?
Brilliant article. Very well written and encompasses what ma y feel today , whether they know it or not. By that I mean most people seem to have been blindsided by radical social media that allows them not to just feel like they have the moral high ground, but that they are the victims.
The rise of the Billionaire has also led to a get out clause for the well off: I work hard for my money, it's the billionaires that are taking all the wealth.
Despite the Tesla, the Range Rover and the newly built concrete and glass badges of honour of the very wealthy.
What they are really saying is ‘I'm the same as you, I have to get up in the morning’, but it's not the same when you have cars and a house worth £750000 and your employees can't get a mortgage but are paying for someone else's, who are watching their daily food bill get beyond their means.
So our middle class has been eaten up, everyone is a ‘hard working person except those that need to claim benefits, despite the majority of people claiming benefits are actually working, but their wages don't touch the sides anymore.
On point! The story people tell themselves often matters more than the system they’re living inside. ♥️
AND intent would require someone to be accountable.
“Just following orders”. Which — If I’m not mistaken, and remembering my reading of Shirer’s “Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” — was the “defense” offered by many in the “Nuremberg Trials” of yesteryear:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_Third_Reich
Yep! History keeps reminding us that obedience doesn’t erase agency, it just covers/hides it. ♥️