I hear you, but thousands of years of not finding alternative answers is compelling evidence that humans don't really want to find alternatives. Maybe you and I do, others also...maybe most.. but if those people don't have the ability to make it happen then wars will continue, as they have throughout history.
I wonder if a chess tournament would have been effective against the Nazis. I wonder how the Ukraine situation could have been dealt with, a badminton play off? And what about those fucken idiots in Israel and Palestine...been fighting for a long, long, time. Maybe an arm wrestle could have solved it...or an EMA bout. But no...war. Humans have a propensity for it, are good at it and I don't think enough could be done all at once to see an end to it, and end to it starting in the first place.
I hope wars never happen for many reasons, reading this book would make others think and say the same...but how many will read it? How many will seek the understanding? Not many...they're too busy on Facebook and showing their boobs on Instagram for money. Too busy playing video games...that are based on war. Too busy wanting more than they need. Too busy being greedy and selfish and thinking it'll never happen to me.
I know Big Bro G-Dog, ALL of humanity deserves one big EMA for various reason war is only a small portion of it and better believe what we live today is our collective karma for allowing a lot of things we shouldn't have and still do, this includes you and I and It's too big to explain to you on hive or the internet, and it's really messed up but everyone is asleep to it and refuses to believe it if told because it's that vile but also what I know correlates with a topic you don't like and is repelled by but not necessarily in a way they teach either. Just know there is something messed up going on and all humanity has to do is to wake up to it because if they did they would be so appalled.
To give a clue look at Hollywood and North-American music culture and the message they transcend and what they physically represent in their demon costumes isn't as far from the truth as most would like to think and you would be surprised who's part of it and how far they will go. It is a religion like any other that many believe and embody it's perceptions and spread it and everyone worships it with them subliminally. I have seen actual ritualistic things being done at concerts and all that crap just ppl's lack of understanding subject themselves unknowingly via content they consume. Everyone refuses to ignore but doesn't mean it doesn't exist. On other news tho...
Us having to witness all this war, what if that's the catalyst that makes everyone say fuck it this is disgusting why are we allowing it? Why are we acting like d-bags to one another? We are the many but it's not a good idea to throw stones when living in a glass house so that leaves to what I mentioned earlier, if you are at peace with yourself along with anyone else should be repulsed enough about the condition of the world to look at yourself and start being mindful on your actions and the words you spread in order to not make it worst. Hope that this is the catalyst that does it.
To first recognize what is wrong in our environment we have to figure out what makes us act out and that involves us looking at ourselves and resolving that. The problem is that all of us are sitting here waiting for a magic wand to wave all our problems for us without us having to take accountability for our own thoughts and what we consume /create...even so in personal conversations with our peers. I guess that can relate to the programing above. We raise the next generation in this because we are too busy having to work 80's a week to make ends meet than to parent proper values and be there. Which still leads back to the head of the same snake.
You or I are one person each and understand the understand things on a deeper level in different ways and knowing every step and every word said written has repercussions somewhere and use it in a wise way because you recognize your power, perhaps not in the now but in the future. Don't underestimate the consequences/impact of however many read your values along with other wise writers/communicators.
Just imagine, you have been here writing every day sharing you personal experiences based on a mixed bag of human what to do and what experience is probably skippable and your sharing it with the world as you live it in some way. Is it fair to say that unknowingly it is a guaranty that you have influenced bare minimum being real cheap here that you have made at the very least 1000 someones think about an action they were about to make rethink and choose better resulting in one small act of understanding and kindness and somehow someway it changes the next person and so one because someone like you decided to write your perspective.
If you think what you are doing now isn't impactful...based on the amount of readers, years of experience blogging, the amount of words you put out. How many negative acts did you turn into one of love and understanding unknowingly? How many mindset problems may you have solved for some random schmuks on the internet going thru the same thing and because you face yours and talk about it, they have the chance to guide themselves with a blueprint you wrote rather than stay stuck. Don't under estimate your impact on the world even if you can't see it, it's a big place.
Obviously we all can't sit around a campfire and sing kumbaya while having arm wrestling matches and chest games in these current times but I like dreams and sometimes they do come true. If it doesn't I will have done what I could and be at peace with that.
As far as the book, I'm interested. I do have a pretty long to be read pile and I'm trying to be responsible and not buy new ones until I manage that a little but my B-day is coming up soon-ish and I'm gonna expect ppl to ask me what I want, it will probably be a good suggestion to request.
Indeed, in some way or another each person is asleep (unaware). I wonder if people will wake up. I guess I don't believe enough will or soon enough.
You mention Hollywood, can't disagree with you there. I'm quite disillusioned with movies (content) that's produced now. The agendas, the way it's produced to a formula (the masses want) rather then as something creative. Everything has to sell.
Anyway, that's something else. I agree about the self-mindfulness, each person being responsible. I guess I'm not optimistic though, cynical maybe, possibly I've seen too much 'human nature' to see it any other way. Hope? I have it, I just temper it with pragmatism i suppose.
I feel you're telling me something here, maybe giving me some Benny Hill slaps (you may have to google that) and saying, say the right things bro, drop the right pebbles in the pond, and the ripples will form.
Furthermore, your third-last paragraph...thanks for saying that...I try to present in a balanced way, try to push something outwards that some may find meaningful or that may spark a thought which someone may ignite a fire with themselves...I just don't think I'll all that good at it and maybe my (poor) expectations of humanity take the lead role? I hope not though.
On the book, I think you'll get something from it. I'm still re-reading it, taking my time, going back over passages...there's a lot to unpack and it's been enjoyable. As you say, I'll not talk much about it here, Hive/internet is not the right forum although I'm thinking deeply, anyone who mistakes my vacant dumb-ass face for me not being a deep thinker is more fucken bonkers than I am. The book is challenging me, long-standing things and it's a good thing.
Now, kumbaya? If you ever want to torture yourself you'll get me to sing to you...You'll be divulging state secrets inside of thirty seconds. I don't sing or dance.
I guess I don't believe enough will or soon enough. You don't and expect others to? You should research narcistic abuse and apply it to mass scale perhaps it may open your eyes. Catastrophe after another over and over again eats and numbs the mind into apathy for the sake of survival. It's called mind/psychological warfare and it's more real than ppl want to admit but that's why they can do it. Losing hope or vision sounds a lot like apathy.
The world reminds me of one big abuse victim that can't recognize they are getting abused and stay there because they think there is no other choice so we just go along with it. PPl underestimate the damage of abuse and mind erosion it does or what the definition could even be. I guess that's sort of thing I'm analyzing these days. Obviously it's 2 different concepts but share enough similarities and adds perspective to merge the 2. even the abused spouse or kid gets up one days and says that's wrong and I'm out. Different cycle same path.
Everything has to sell reverse the problem, if it didn't sell, they wouldn't make it. So consumers are unknowingly consuming it by choice of ignorance or rosy colored glasses and ignore reality.
The other problem ppl like us that don't like the mainstream don't hang out on mainstream things out of annoyance. why I still have my FB. We have a gold mine of organic information and ways of life suitable for every need and every like but yet we keep it all locked away and only privy to the ppl of hive. Come to us we think. The repercussions of that the filth spreads and the wholesomeness stays hidden because we hid it with our own beliefs. Not just hive but the wholesome content doesn't spread if you have to be part of something weird you don't understand. The mainstream platforms simply spread information and the only information that spreads is the one that is put there in the first place, if the good organic info isn't there how can it spread? I can't say the hive stuff I post there does that well but I do have friends that ask about it and they will never join hive, doesn't mean they can't benefit from the info written.
I don't get the dude getting smacked on the head over and over thing but I do get the ripples in the water, yes exactly like that. I like to call it spreading seeds. They wont all grow everywhere but spread enough something is bound to come of it eventually. Our words outlive us.
I'm reading translated text that was carved in pyramids several thousands of years ago. It was their intent perhaps but do you think they knew just how large of an influence they would have thousands of years later that any random human could just get it from their house without even having to get out of bed. We start with a huge leg up. As long as we have the internet the words are there to be interpreted by the right person even if it's 200 years from now.
I did a few personal test with my photography on fb and I chose 12 Canadian amateur photo groups to share in. my highest performing post got 55k views and probably several thousands of interactions. Sharing a dumb 5 photo post 12 times. The wholesome information spreads if somebody puts it there and in the right place, it's just a matter of finding that right place. Filth spreads because the good information holders are apathetic.
I totally relate on the information in book being deep and valuable but how to even share in a comprehensive layman terms sometimes can be tricky. I have the same problem. Too niche for regular human consumption. That's your job as a blogger, it shapes your perspective and you write about how it impacts you bit by bit. You already do it.
A lot to unpack here and the little pea-sized brain in my noggin isn't up for it tonight at almost midnight after an eighteen hour day.
I have really struggled to put what this book is making me think and feel, how it's shifting inside me, into words and to be honest I don't think I'll try as it's too personal and would mean I'd have to open up about things I've lived through which I'm not prepared to do here, or online anywhere for that matter. Maybe if you read the book that will make sense although your experiences are different to mine, you're a different person, and so it'll be different for you I guess, as it would be with anyone else. The good thing is that I got to introduce a book that has great meaning, especially in this flawed and broken society of ours, and if one person picks it up and takes a read, hell, if one person sees the movie, maybe some good will come of it...maybe they'll think differently and maybe that'll make a difference.
That's the whole point of a good book, to shift some things inside and yeas like you said, I will read something entirely different out of it because I have different experiences, sometimes it takes a minute to sink in and verbalize it.
Most ppl struggle with opening up and that's a personal choice, it's neither good or bad, also why I think we read, so we can have these deep parts of ourselves disturbed to be analyzed quietly, sometimes it is our personal journey not necessarily for the whole world but it does feel nice to open up about certain things at times, keeping too much inside also isn't good, probably part of the reason the world is so messed up, everyone keeps everything inside until they are all eaten away to nothing and losing hope. Now ppl see me open up here about some weird things but realistically it's just the tip of the iceberg, the more comfortable nasty stuff I don't want to traumatize anyone either.
Your hopes are one par, Even if one person picks it up That's why we are here, to inform the ones who want it and yes that's a win. I plan on reading it...mission accomplished then...Just like that! 😆
I'm the iceberg that sunk the Titanic. #didntmeanto
LOL Better to be the iceberg than the Titanic...just sayin. Maybe some of this stuff needs to come out somewhere nonetheless you could journal it but just for your eyes only.