Post No. 3,400 - Resistance, violence/nonviolence, and change

I now have a YouTube video (by the excellent Tad Stoermer) which ties together Gene Sharp (his mentioned data base is here), Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan, Dr Martin Luther King Kr, the COMBINATION of methodologies in the fields of resistance, violence/nonviolence, and change, and updates it from past context to current context: 

“Is the "Civil Resistance" Crowd Misleading You About Resistance? | A Resistance History Dispatch - YouTube”   https://youtu.be/K22OouNvVvM   “You don’t have to be for violence to want to understand how resistance actually worked. That’s the dishonesty at the center of this. The current framework treats any attempt to examine the full ecology of resistance — including direct action, confrontation, economic disruption, armed self-defense, and the credible threat of loss for the people in power — as though it were an endorsement of violence. It isn’t. It’s an insistence on honesty about a subject that the people most affected by authoritarianism cannot afford to have distorted.   The Civil Rights Movement was not a nonviolent movement. It was an ecology in which nonviolent mass action, armed self-defense, legal strategy, radical economic demands, and direct confrontation all operated simultaneously. The Deacons for Defense made nonviolent organizing survivable in places where unarmed workers would have been killed. CORE and SNCC knew this. King knew this — his home was an arsenal before he was talked out of keeping guns. The threat of confrontation and the reality of armed self-defense changed the calculus for the Klan, for local law enforcement, and for the federal government in ways that made the nonviolent campaigns possible. Stripping that out and calling what remains “the movement” isn’t just bad history. It’s a decision about what people today are allowed to consider when they’re deciding how to act.   The same thing is happening with the data.”   The video continues to discuss the updated data (including this) on Erica Chenoweth’s site. As I watched this, I also recalled Gandhi’s view that the task of a nonviolent noncooperator was to continue to provoke until there was a reaction.    

Watch this video as many times as is required to take it in - the view of resistance as an ecology is vital. 

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider: 

• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

 

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Reminder: practice exercises, online courses (including using this blog as a course), and ethics

This is just a quick reminderr that I have some practice exercises posted at https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2023/09/post-no-2572-practice-exercises.html, and links to online courses (including using this blog as a course) at https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/p/on-line-courses-on-this-blog.html. 

 

 

Also, don’t forget to do everything - including any psychic work - ethically. 

I discuss that at https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2023/05/ethics.html, but I would like to add/emphasise the following - the details of which are subject to the current laws of whatever jurisdiction you live/work in, so if you have any concerns, consult a suitably qualified/registered/experienced expert: 

• even if you do not charge people, you may be liable for the advice you give them. As an example, if you told someone to give their money to a shonky person, even if you did not charge them for telling them that, you may be liable (you SHOULD be, IMO); 

• legal protections go both ways, so you are likely also protected against attempts to blackmail or threaten you; 

• mind your Mӕgan. 

I consider many people who are not outright fraudsters get themselves into trouble because they are actually seeking emotional validation for their beliefs - especially if they wish to talk about or “demonstrate” proof (see Victor Zammit and  Dean I Radin's “The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena” [Harper One (2010), first pub. Harper Collins (2009), ISBN 978 0062029096, Amazon] on that topic before getting in to any debates/discourse). I suggest doing the emotional work to be able to move away from physical proof and live with spiritual values and ambiguity/uncertainty - you will be more effective for yourself and others, and less likely to damage the entire field that way.

 

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Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither). 

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