Tagged with 'violence'

It takes some doing learning to write or speak without using violent words. They are ubiquitous in our American experience.

In this vein, I am not a 'warrior' nor am I "fighting' the established order. Things don't 'hit' me in a particular way; I don't wish to 'slap' anyone on the back.

There is a new sales campaign the Disney Company recently announced. Wall Street analysts talk excitedly about the “newborn market.” Disney representatives enter hospitals’ birth rooms with sales kits, trying to sell onesies with Mickey logos to the enthralled or scared parents soon after the baby cries for breath.

The OK Corrals in the foreground, where the hate is fresh, turn our media-dulled heads.

I am sitting on a meditation cushion in a musty domed tent in the Green Mountains of Vermont. There is a raised dais in the front. On it sits a beautiful Native American woman with sparkling eyes, a gracious manner and a melodious speaking voice. She is called the Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo. She is Cherokee. I am entranced by the chanting, visualizations and teachings of peace she offers.

Have you ever sat back and thought about the IDEA of a "DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE" and a "CONSTITUTION?"

The United States Constitution ROCKS!! We have soooo many RIGHTS that we CAN EXCERSIZE in America (we need a few amendments, tho). :)

I think it is a Duty to excersize our Political Rights. I have a duty to be involved politically. This is called Civic Duty.

I blame Derrick Jensen. In his book - Endgame II: Resistance - he lays down a thorough analysis of the abusive dynamics and how pacifism relates to this, over three chapters. I've picked out a few particularly salient quotes from each chapter, but I REALLY encourage you all to read the full chapters themselves:

PART I
http://www.endgamethebook.org/Excerpts/25%20-%20Pacifism%20I.html

I think of the global human-ecological dilemma as a scaled up model of "Musical Chairs." You walk in a circle around chairs in a zombie-like manner as music plays. When it abruptly stops everyone jumps for a chair, yet there’s an ever-diminishing number of chairs so someone gets literally assed-out.

(Continuation of a conversation started on Reality Sandwich.)

How do we find peace? By opening space for conflict.

"War defends us from conflict."

Hows the week been? Anger been igniting your Inner fire? Random events peppering your life? Sickness? Accidents? Violence in the air? Even if you havent tasted it yet, its all around you, and it Mars!!!