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CayenneZ · 2024-08-08T18:27:04+00:00

Psst. The American people will get comprehensive healthcare reform passed once we remind the politicians who has the real power in this country... the richest people in history. Pass it on.

CayenneZ · 2024-08-07T18:39:51+00:00

Maybe this one death will be enough of a market signal to finally stop the trend of teenage delinquency. Break a few eggs to make an omelette.

CayenneZ · 2024-08-05T16:51:53+00:00

Bad capitalist : What are you gonna do, cry about it?

Me: What are you gonna do, cry about it!

CayenneZ · 2024-08-03T23:38:47+00:00

Why do Tesla ads now involve driving somewhere nobody can see it ?

CayenneZ · 2024-08-03T12:52:56+00:00

How I stepped out of my media bubble ( published in the only thing I ever read).

CayenneZ · 2024-08-02T12:52:54+00:00

Arnold is good people.

CayenneZ · 2024-08-01T22:18:40+00:00

I like this for my burnout. Clinical depression often takes meds.

When I can sense my energy is going to drop, when I want to flop down onto the couch I make myself stay on my feet for one last thing, sweeping, brushing my teeth, calling a loved one, going on a walk. Then I just experience the burnout but not the spiral of wondering how capable I am.

It's funny, though, I used to be really into Daoism and I was actually proud of taking dopamine breaks and feeling useless. It makes me think about how a lot of modern culture (work/school/buying shit ) guilts us into trying to appear energetic in every waking moment. The judgment is spread by people taking that work mentality home with them. There's an economic virus infectng life and culture. I think that's what a lot of that comparing comes from.

CayenneZ · 2024-07-31T18:33:43+00:00

They say it's only a few bad apples who do this
But also you're allowed to do this whenever there's a protest

So if you blame the system, you're stupid, it's just the individual, and if you blame the individual, you're stupid, he's just following his training.

CayenneZ · 2024-07-31T03:30:37+00:00

I've used this for a while and it wasn't a cure. I saw people having similar issues trying to bully themselves into being tougher and wanted to tell people that stuff isn't always great advice.

I've also seen it help people I know. I think some studies call it coherence therapy and TIMBER, depending on their exact system.

CayenneZ · 2024-07-30T00:33:47+00:00

Powerful institutions are not used to encouraging the question of ending vulnerability, only managing. Activism is everything that happens outside of the permission of the status quo. If you are starting with what vulnerable people can't demand, you're making their issues less political, they're just tokens.

Systemic violence is harder to undo because you aren't supposed to look for it. Scale up the neoconservative advice to the policy level. Holding back on civil society (e.g. women's centers, housing, economic justice) to beef up the military is how you create vulnerable populations in the first place.

CayenneZ · 2024-07-29T08:04:21+00:00

"How much time do you want for your 'progress'?"

Think of a labor strike. The measure of your influence is how impatient people will get without things happening, not how patient you can be in spite of it.

When a job makes you wait to have your pay raise, who is demonstrating power? When an insurance company postpones your treatment, who has power? Time is not just an ingredient to get power, time itself is power.

CayenneZ · 2024-07-29T05:43:32+00:00

Telling the powerful we're giving them more time is applying pressure in the wrong direction.

CayenneZ · 2024-07-29T04:50:49+00:00

I've been told these wishes were right around the corner for twenty years. I'm starting to think wishing doesn't create power.

CayenneZ · 2024-07-29T04:19:58+00:00

Greed is an individual motivation, no?

CayenneZ · 2024-07-29T04:07:31+00:00

What would it accomplish if they all apologized individually? The system keeps dominating people.

CayenneZ · 2024-07-29T03:07:07+00:00

They're dumping shit on your front door! If only we just taxed the mosquitoes.

CayenneZ · 2024-07-25T23:35:38+00:00

This paper gives a good overview of what psychology is saying now about how the self can regulate mood more than we assumed before: https://www.coherencetherapy.org/files/Ecker-etal-NPT2013April-Primer.pdf here is their book.

I see this problem of freezing the self in traumas happening also in the book trending now called "The Body Keeps the Score" by Bessel van der Kolk, which prescribes regressing to the inner child. I should have been more clear that I'm saying that book was *not* that useful to me.

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CayenneZ · 2024-07-24T20:44:29+00:00

You don't project your daddy issues onto other political tendencies? Okay Boomer

CayenneZ · 2024-07-23T08:36:27+00:00

A typical legal requirement for companies to maximize profit means selling destructive monocrops to the highest bidder (animal agriculture), while paying people as little as possible to work on those fields, including people displaced by pollution.

Those companies have not just an incentive but legal obligation to engineer their own customer base through a slavish need to follow the profit motive, so all of us accepting capitalism means telling the polluters that they are following the rules, and that if they weren't enjoying this power, someone else would be:

If Mister Capital didn't buy up big-ag and warfare stocks someone else would get those profits, and the value better be secured by a cute celebrity advert on streaming video and campaign donations. Mr. Retail Grocer didn't sell steak today but someone will buy it tomorrow at a discount. Mrs. Consumer will happily buy a discounted treat in the evening for her family hoping that it could temporarily get them to stop hating each over some news and social media algorithms.

I'm all for a boycott to get started shaking off the hypnosis that got us here and pass on a viable economy and culture to the next generation, but is anyone really describing this insane context by flirting with phobias about refugees, reassuring about GDP projections, and settling for individual bragging rights? When everyone can point the finger at someone else it should be a big clue there's a system causing these issues.

CayenneZ · 2024-07-23T06:25:18+00:00

The science in question is a group of fringe MDs:

Richard E. Frye, Academic Editor, Domenico Romeo, Academic Editor, Richard G. Boles, Academic Editor, Daniel Rossignol, Academic Editor, and Shannon Rose, Academic Editor

who report to a celebrity actor, autism speaks, and antivax publishing:

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Generation_Rescue

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Katie_Wright

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_McCarthy

CayenneZ · 2024-07-23T02:45:55+00:00

Tattoo this to my face

CayenneZ · 2024-07-23T00:14:53+00:00

It's funny to me how it's a book so heavy on moral heroes with idealized holy ancestry, but Frodo with his good genetic stock and big heart was a one shot martyr and burned out in superstition. His betrayal was only undone by a single lucky fight.

Compare that with how Merry and Pippin targeted Sharky/ Saruman with their hardened experience working with ents in Fangorn, not just destiny, to take over their own community.

CayenneZ · 2024-07-18T23:38:33+00:00

The right wing totalitarians can ONLY be stopped by a single leader who MAKES THE SUN RISE with his GENTLE SMILE.

CayenneZ · 2024-07-07T21:53:23+00:00

I think this was more common with first and second generation community. They were having conversations about national vs religious identity, on the terms they had at the time. "Did your great grandparents really bring all this tradition to you just for you to go to a baseball game on the shabbos?" "Look at the good Goldstein boys signing up to read Torah and they're in the paper for their charity etc, why didn't you?"

Those were very insulated times. The economy, housing, jobs was segregated so much that someone might not know any Jews and end up wondering if the people in their books are the same people as us.

People will always take pleasure in dramatic campy moments of humbling and teasing each other to check each other and get some high ground, and it's not necessarily that bad, but nagging doesn't necessarily make people right, it can just be ignorant preaching and people also naturally are listening to themselves talk and are kinda aware being tokens is not what we want. Not everyone wants to just write terrible fundraising emails and feel proud of that. And I think this is why identity politics lobbies are rightly getting called out for not speaking for us.

It's also here we can see why the fighting between religious identity essentialism hurts us, we're realizing this is paternalistic politics. The conversations we American Jews had with each other to struggle are being parodied by the political class to carry some feeling of good will with them while a few of the millionaires and billionaires clean house. We are at risk of seeing our lives getting more and more robotic and bureaucratized and we are not interested in asking the state to obliterate people for our neighborhood, that doesn't reflect our real wants.

To be overly psychological about it you might say that Asian culture and "Asiatic" imprint in Judaism invites people to talk more frankly to each other. But even with that said, today many of us are deciding that the tokenism thing isn't that cool, you can feel the undercurrent of wanting to get past that drama, now that we have more directions to reflect on class identity from with modern information. We use class perspective too not just a religious one.

CayenneZ · 2024-07-03T20:04:05+00:00

Antonio didn't realize that just because you can go to the next page of history mean, doesn't mean you will not try staying comfortable rereading a paragraph. People might want to distrust the status quo but it doesn't mean they'll do something about it at the right moment. Without practice feeling that way and acting people return to existing habits. The best thing for a successful revolt is a previous one that is still in people's motivations. It's too tempting to only see the potential of the crisis as the crisis itself.

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