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5 years ago in OCD by rok-sivante (77)
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I can hear you.
What I do about it? I joined a new formed party here in Germany, called "Resistance2020". Because, after all, expressing oneself is not enough. Someone has to do the shitty work, to build up a community in which one feels to be in needed company and to live out self-authorization. All this administrative, organizing, planing, discussing, debating, finding consensus etc. etc. is hard work. The party has reached a number of around 100.000. That's significant! To give some hope to other countries and folks.
If members of the existing parties also change their parliamentary group, there is the possibility to move to the German Bundestag without an official election. The media, which so far did not support other views, proposals and concerns, are then forced to report about this new party. There is no way around it. The state organs "test" their citizens. If there is no visible countermovement - demos are good, but not enough - the impression is created that the people, in the form of their feedback, agree with the measures. The wind always turns in the direction from which the most agreement comes, even if this is often only a supposed or distorted agreement. Since we have no other means at our disposal apart from democratic ones, we must use the ones we have.
Bless you.
Nice. 👏🥂
I 'think' that with the advent of the internet (not social media), information and knowledge is now at everyone's fingertips, and this leads to a more informed 'taking a position'.
Taking a position necessitates conflict with other people who are also'taking a position'.
This is nothing new, but the scope has widened to cover all subjects, not just 'points'.
(i.e _more things to find contention with).
Without getting spiritual and happy clappy, I see a polarization of types.
Those who support authority, and status quo, and those that don't.
(even here, I see many supposedly 'freethinkers' who are completely pro authoritarian, and they don't even see it in themselves. Talk about cognitive dissonance. lol).
Walking away from a position that you hold dear to your own values is not 'the big thing' to do.
NOT standing up for what you believe is being small, and offers no value to the world.
Decadence (esp in the western hemisphere) has made for soft people. Soft people are the blip in society, not the norm.
We have become so pampered, values have taken a back seat, but with hardship, the luxury of 'being soft' disappears.
This will be a very hard decade (or three) for those having to psychologically readjust back to a more sane reality.
Imagine having to spend time growing food instead of playing video games!
Oh, the fucking horror! lol
Fuck, this is the best comment I've read in a while.
On-point, my man. 👌🙌
Cheers....this is my 'Yoda' phase of the day...it only goes down hill from here on in..!
lol
My defense mechanism is to isolate myself, to shut myself off, to silence myself. I have discovered that over the years I am uncomfortable with shouting, conflicting people, stubbornness taken to its highest expression. Although I tend to be very sincere and not very "nice" in saying things (I am a Sagittarius), I do not seek confrontation. I believe in communication and respect. In my day-to-day life I have come across fighters who feed off fights and disagreements. When I run into them, I walk away or just give them my serious, silent face. This attitude is what makes me not have facebook and not be so active in the networks. Although I miss a lot of being away from social platforms, I am more interested in my mental health. ;)Greetings, @rok-sivante
Sounds more like wisdom than a "defence mechanism" to me. 😇
This is so totally bang on! I've had to actually remove Facebook and Messenger off my phone to take a break from all the quarreling... I took the disengage approach as I am super passionate about not creating an emotional response to anothers perspective. It's not easy tho... as I'm an emotional projector. So taking the disengagement path to simply being present, and working through the information overload i have already absorbed thus far... is something new to me, but good. Again I've resonated with your writing. Thanks again. :)
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It is amazing how people are so readily able to make comments on social media that they would never imagine saying out loud. At least in the past they never would have. Now you have people saying all kinds of things you never would have guessed. It is a little liberating because it lets you know the people that you really want to have in your life and the ones you don't. It is a lot of sad too though.
I think not engaging, walking away and being aware that we ourselves cling to our opinions and tend to defend them, so next time we will try we can react with wisdom rather than self protecting impulse. Also I prefer to engage with people outside of internet more..