Capitalism - especially its neoliberal forms - creates the conditions for spiritual malady, while offering commodity forms as solutions, which only progresses the dis-ease.
I fear that we are seeing holders of capital attempt to reach further and further into all aspects of human experience in search of new mechanisms for accumulation. Which may makes us sicker and sicker.
I’m thinking through all this in a series called “The Enclosure of Spirit,” so it is very pleasing to see others taking on similar lines of analysis.
I encourage everyone to become of a 12 step program. My experience has educated me on how we humans work, and how fear and pride are major factors in addiction to whatever is being peddle.
Ya'll hit the nail on the head by presenting the evidence utilized by MAGA for addicting people to this fanaticism .
the felon absolutely a pedophile and why he calls his followers boys and girls...another shoe dropped with Katie Johnson video of her testement about what happened to her at age 13 posted today on substack
I would invite you to come to Los Angeles and the surrounding areas. What you will feel is fear, a taste of fear, a feeling of fear. If people are buying Trump shirts? It's not nuetral any more than a Hitler poster. We hide, we check to look for thugs. And other states are buying T-shirts? THis is tragic to be a legend before he destroys the world. Please come to LA.. See the flipi side. It is a market now, not a political ideal. What do these people imagine that Trump is doing? Golfing? Maybe that is the American Dream. Golfing all day. And yes, nothing will fill that void.
It’s not just middle America in the Midwest that are sleepwalking. It’s a majority swath of America in all regions because life still doesn’t look abnormal or feel abnormal - unless you are an immigrant fearing ICE raids. All the political chatter on cable news and TikTok hadn’t penetrated down to their workaday lives. But when violence and civil unrest arrives, when consumer shortages arrive, when the military shows up in cities across the country, when elections get canceled or rigged, when people they know disappear - the reality will match the concern that folks on Substack are focused on. Those of us currently freaked out are freaked on a mental level, but our physical lives still look/function pre-Jan 20. It’s the definition of Cognitive Dissonance. Things have to fall apart on the day-to-day level for America for the greater public to wake the hell up.
We are very grateful for you two coming on tonight. Very healing for body and spirit and soul. Save travels to you Jared and and bright blessings to you both and thank you for your insights as you are spot on~!!! ....about everything. Peace to you both~
I, too, feel visceral reactions when I watch Trump or his minions spouting lies. I could not understand how anyone could listen to them and believe them, even if you have no information outside of their made-up reality show. I see nothing in their body language, tone of voice or actions that makes them trustworthy. They are like the sleeziest of used car salesmen.
Addiction describes what's happening well, along with a failure to examine one's own life and thinking. Maybe if you've been brought up in a world of lies and taught that for your own survival you have to believe the lies, and taught that you have no value in and of yourself but must please those with power, then you learn to repeat the false mantras and accept some unspoken, unchallengeable assumptions. One of those assumptions could be, "___ is my savior and to deny his words [or the official interpretation of his words] is to sin mortally." "___" stands for some power figure, a false substitution for someone truly enlightened and also a substitution for listening within.
Now if we look at MAGA followers as asleep, then we just hope we can wake them up. But they may be terrified of being woken up because that would unravel their entire reality. They would no longer have the support of their dysfunctional tribe and are not feeling strong enough to go it "alone." That's probably why (as I have witnessed) they repeat MAGA mantras when you question them about the apparent conflict between their better humanity and what the regime is actually doing. They retreat into their dogma, which they think protects them.
If we want to help them, we have to listen for their better natures and reflect that back to them, to let them know that they don't derive their value from being part of MAGA, but rather from who they really are. Catch them loving their kids or awe-struck by the sunset, and draw their attention to that.
People are not static, not "this way" or "that way." We change from moment to moment, but we tell ourselves how we need to be in order to accept ourselves and to have others accept us. Sometimes we get a glimpse of who we fear ourselves to be, the part we don't want anyone else to suspect.
One day, if we're perceptive and/or lucky, we realize that all those ideas about ourselves are probably wrong. Who we are right now cannot be outwardly defined. Who we thought we were yesterday is only useful insofar as it helps us see what our path has been, what our assumptions have been, and what our ideals, wants and needs have been, so that we can leave behind anything that has not served us. Then we can more consciously move forward to practice, not just think, our ideals, in service of love, happiness, and deep communion.
I think this analysis is spot on.
Capitalism - especially its neoliberal forms - creates the conditions for spiritual malady, while offering commodity forms as solutions, which only progresses the dis-ease.
I fear that we are seeing holders of capital attempt to reach further and further into all aspects of human experience in search of new mechanisms for accumulation. Which may makes us sicker and sicker.
I’m thinking through all this in a series called “The Enclosure of Spirit,” so it is very pleasing to see others taking on similar lines of analysis.
Thank you for the great work 😊
That sounded like Branson. 🤷🏻♀️
So interesting 🤔
... aware of a 12 step ...
I encourage everyone to become of a 12 step program. My experience has educated me on how we humans work, and how fear and pride are major factors in addiction to whatever is being peddle.
Ya'll hit the nail on the head by presenting the evidence utilized by MAGA for addicting people to this fanaticism .
One reason I do not watch the book tube. Thanks!
the felon absolutely a pedophile and why he calls his followers boys and girls...another shoe dropped with Katie Johnson video of her testement about what happened to her at age 13 posted today on substack
I would invite you to come to Los Angeles and the surrounding areas. What you will feel is fear, a taste of fear, a feeling of fear. If people are buying Trump shirts? It's not nuetral any more than a Hitler poster. We hide, we check to look for thugs. And other states are buying T-shirts? THis is tragic to be a legend before he destroys the world. Please come to LA.. See the flipi side. It is a market now, not a political ideal. What do these people imagine that Trump is doing? Golfing? Maybe that is the American Dream. Golfing all day. And yes, nothing will fill that void.
Terrific, though revolting in its accuracy, piece. Consumerism at its shallowest and most vile.
PS: I especially admire your restraint in using a Dorito and not a Cheeto.
It’s not just middle America in the Midwest that are sleepwalking. It’s a majority swath of America in all regions because life still doesn’t look abnormal or feel abnormal - unless you are an immigrant fearing ICE raids. All the political chatter on cable news and TikTok hadn’t penetrated down to their workaday lives. But when violence and civil unrest arrives, when consumer shortages arrive, when the military shows up in cities across the country, when elections get canceled or rigged, when people they know disappear - the reality will match the concern that folks on Substack are focused on. Those of us currently freaked out are freaked on a mental level, but our physical lives still look/function pre-Jan 20. It’s the definition of Cognitive Dissonance. Things have to fall apart on the day-to-day level for America for the greater public to wake the hell up.
Thanks for the side-of-the-road convo! It was a lovely surprise! The Check In is something so important.
I’m glad I didn’t have to deal with the withdrawal!
We are very grateful for you two coming on tonight. Very healing for body and spirit and soul. Save travels to you Jared and and bright blessings to you both and thank you for your insights as you are spot on~!!! ....about everything. Peace to you both~
MAGA is a Weak Evil Death Cult
Worship of Trump is fucked up
Thank you both so much! You’re helping a lot of people ❤️
I, too, feel visceral reactions when I watch Trump or his minions spouting lies. I could not understand how anyone could listen to them and believe them, even if you have no information outside of their made-up reality show. I see nothing in their body language, tone of voice or actions that makes them trustworthy. They are like the sleeziest of used car salesmen.
Addiction describes what's happening well, along with a failure to examine one's own life and thinking. Maybe if you've been brought up in a world of lies and taught that for your own survival you have to believe the lies, and taught that you have no value in and of yourself but must please those with power, then you learn to repeat the false mantras and accept some unspoken, unchallengeable assumptions. One of those assumptions could be, "___ is my savior and to deny his words [or the official interpretation of his words] is to sin mortally." "___" stands for some power figure, a false substitution for someone truly enlightened and also a substitution for listening within.
Now if we look at MAGA followers as asleep, then we just hope we can wake them up. But they may be terrified of being woken up because that would unravel their entire reality. They would no longer have the support of their dysfunctional tribe and are not feeling strong enough to go it "alone." That's probably why (as I have witnessed) they repeat MAGA mantras when you question them about the apparent conflict between their better humanity and what the regime is actually doing. They retreat into their dogma, which they think protects them.
If we want to help them, we have to listen for their better natures and reflect that back to them, to let them know that they don't derive their value from being part of MAGA, but rather from who they really are. Catch them loving their kids or awe-struck by the sunset, and draw their attention to that.
People are not static, not "this way" or "that way." We change from moment to moment, but we tell ourselves how we need to be in order to accept ourselves and to have others accept us. Sometimes we get a glimpse of who we fear ourselves to be, the part we don't want anyone else to suspect.
One day, if we're perceptive and/or lucky, we realize that all those ideas about ourselves are probably wrong. Who we are right now cannot be outwardly defined. Who we thought we were yesterday is only useful insofar as it helps us see what our path has been, what our assumptions have been, and what our ideals, wants and needs have been, so that we can leave behind anything that has not served us. Then we can more consciously move forward to practice, not just think, our ideals, in service of love, happiness, and deep communion.
You guys make a great podcast team.