Grassroots campaigns are hard to get started, but I think the single most effective action people can take right now is: invite their neighbor for dinner.
The second most important thing is: invite your other neighbor over for dinner.
And so on.
We need to step out of the internet to reconnect. Our friends and family and neighbors don’t want to believe this stuff, but they’re not capable of extending the olive branch.
We have to show them that even if we’re dirty evil liberals, we are still human and we care about how they feel.
My partner, who was a renowned author of several books and an expert on the subject of literacy, spoke often on empathy and the lack of it. She pushed reading regularly to children, grandchildren, etc. from quality literature. This is valuable for a number of reasons, including exposure and development of great vocabularies to prepare them for school. It also helps to develop empathy by allowing kids (and people in general) to get into the minds and motivations of the characters, especially in foreign lands or cultures different than one's own. People just are not reading for pleasure the way we used to before other technological distractions were invented. I learned so much from her, but she died the end of April this year. Such a wise woman! I try to carry her message forward.
I remember this one youtube video had a distorted voice and was like custom made for me. Fucking indigos, rainbows, and crystals. Are you familiar with container cults?
I think you meant to say cargo cults. Container cults are more like people obsessed with Tupperware and Pampered Chef, lol. For those unfamiliar with the term, here's more about where the term originated https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Cargo_cult
Cargo cults are religious practices that have appeared in many traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures. They focus on obtaining the material wealth (the "cargo") of the advanced culture by imitating the actions they believe cause the appearance of cargo: by building landing strips, mock aircraft, mock radios, and the like.[2] Similarly, although cargo cult sciences employ the trappings of the scientific method, they fail — like an airplane with no motor — to deliver anything of value. The mythical advanced civilizations of Atlantis or Lemuria were big on crystal technology. Cargo cult science https://wiki.beparanoid.de/wiki/Cargo_cult_science?lang=en
Putin's GRU and I suppose the intel services of his evil authoritarian alliance want to discredit the opposition of the dictator they are installing and propping up. They do this by dissociating them with tailored traumaganda, giving them a cult identity and making them look crazy by putting them into container cults. Mine was the Indigo cult and my cult identity was the reincarnation of the mythical character Theseus, hence Theseus Mode.
Thanks, lasted a few months, it was hell. In my defense I am half Greek, Ikarian to be exact. It's the real life island from the Theseus and the Minotaur myth. Being dissociated felt like the whole world was out to get me at one point. Turned on friends and family, had me thinking everyone was on team Kremlin. Wrote a song about it.
I love your work, but my god it makes my brain hurt!
Grassroots campaigns are hard to get started, but I think the single most effective action people can take right now is: invite their neighbor for dinner.
The second most important thing is: invite your other neighbor over for dinner.
And so on.
We need to step out of the internet to reconnect. Our friends and family and neighbors don’t want to believe this stuff, but they’re not capable of extending the olive branch.
We have to show them that even if we’re dirty evil liberals, we are still human and we care about how they feel.
Created by Wombo AI. First three outputs with the prompt “Cognitive Capture.”
My partner, who was a renowned author of several books and an expert on the subject of literacy, spoke often on empathy and the lack of it. She pushed reading regularly to children, grandchildren, etc. from quality literature. This is valuable for a number of reasons, including exposure and development of great vocabularies to prepare them for school. It also helps to develop empathy by allowing kids (and people in general) to get into the minds and motivations of the characters, especially in foreign lands or cultures different than one's own. People just are not reading for pleasure the way we used to before other technological distractions were invented. I learned so much from her, but she died the end of April this year. Such a wise woman! I try to carry her message forward.
You are carrying her message forward. TY Scirocco Jones 🕊
Great writing Jim. Still can’t believe so many are still duped 🤯 Really can’t.
Is it good that Newsom is on truth social?
Thanks, Jenn. Means a lot. 💙
I love what Newsom is doing. Take it to them. He’s one of the only people fighting by the rules that exist instead of the ones we hope for.
😊 oh nice! I wasn’t sure lol. We’re so lucky to have him here. Wootwoot. TY!
I remember this one youtube video had a distorted voice and was like custom made for me. Fucking indigos, rainbows, and crystals. Are you familiar with container cults?
I think you meant to say cargo cults. Container cults are more like people obsessed with Tupperware and Pampered Chef, lol. For those unfamiliar with the term, here's more about where the term originated https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Cargo_cult
Cargo cults are religious practices that have appeared in many traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures. They focus on obtaining the material wealth (the "cargo") of the advanced culture by imitating the actions they believe cause the appearance of cargo: by building landing strips, mock aircraft, mock radios, and the like.[2] Similarly, although cargo cult sciences employ the trappings of the scientific method, they fail — like an airplane with no motor — to deliver anything of value. The mythical advanced civilizations of Atlantis or Lemuria were big on crystal technology. Cargo cult science https://wiki.beparanoid.de/wiki/Cargo_cult_science?lang=en
I am interested in this also.
No, but intrigued.
Putin's GRU and I suppose the intel services of his evil authoritarian alliance want to discredit the opposition of the dictator they are installing and propping up. They do this by dissociating them with tailored traumaganda, giving them a cult identity and making them look crazy by putting them into container cults. Mine was the Indigo cult and my cult identity was the reincarnation of the mythical character Theseus, hence Theseus Mode.
This is really helpful. Thanks so much.
And well done getting out. 💙
Thanks, lasted a few months, it was hell. In my defense I am half Greek, Ikarian to be exact. It's the real life island from the Theseus and the Minotaur myth. Being dissociated felt like the whole world was out to get me at one point. Turned on friends and family, had me thinking everyone was on team Kremlin. Wrote a song about it.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/jk-ultra/1541029790?i=1541029794&ls