Post No. 3,413 - Another activism email

I sent this to my local Federal MP a few minutes ago.

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Dear Member for _, 

 

Re:  Some recent mews articles on climate misinformation, social media, good religious people, and genocide [content warning for the last item] 

There are some news articles from today and yesterday which I consider worth noting - my apologies if you are already aware of these. 

• Firstly:   “‘Denial machine’: climate misinformation is fuelling conflict in Australian communities, inquiry finds | Climate crisis | The Guardian”   https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/25/australia-climate-misinformation-social-media   
  I consider addressing these lies to be of great importance - not only for the wellbeing of Australians, but for the survival, or at least quality of existence, of future humans.   
  
  

• Related to the previous article, in that it deals with abuse of communication, is:   “Meta and YouTube designed addictive products that harmed young people, jury finds | Social media | The Guardian”   https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/25/jury-verdict-us-first-social-media-addiction-trial-meta-youtube   
  As I’ve written previously, I have grave concerns about the risks of privacy breaches and isolation of minority youth created by the age verification aspects of the young people social media ban. Be that as it may, the ban is in place - but it fails, IMO, to address this main problem, which is the unconscionable conduct of social media platforms - which has now been demonstrated by a court decision (albeit in the USA, and with an utterly inconsequential [given Meta's and YouTube's financial scale] fine). That court decision, I suggest, is reason to extend our previous actions aimed at looking after young people to actions that will better look after ALL social media users, whatever their age.   
  
  
• The third news article illustrates something I have been trying to get others in the LGBTQIASB+ communities to realise for DECADES: not all religious people are bad - my (minority) religion is inclusive, and I know there are Christian churches which are inclusive, and activists for inclusion in most religions that discriminate. Other members of the LGBTQIASB+ communities, (pseudo)“journalists” chasing clickbait, and, sadly, a number of politicians have failed to realise that, and as a result have failed to push back against bigotry over the last three decades that this has been of particular concern to me. 
  It must also be noted, however, that the fault also lies with those members of progressive religions, or with progressive views in reactionary religions, who FAIL to speak out against the hate of their fellow religious travellers. 
  Now, however, we have finally got someone who is doing exactly that, as reported in “Democratic rising star extends ‘love’ after Hegseth pastor prays for his death | Democrats | The Guardian”   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/25/james-talarico-pete-hegseth-pastor   
  I would hope that it would be possible to build a database of progressive religious people who are prepared to speak out publicly whenever a reactionary religious adherent promotes hate.   
  
  
• And on hate, one of the most extreme versions of that is genocide. Yesterday a news article expanded on the genocide committed last year in the city of El Fasher, in Darfur, Sudan - one terrible happening in a war full of terrible events that appears to have been largely neglected or ignored by the world.   The article’s details are:   “Heroism, horror and the ‘pits of hell’: inside the last days of El Fasher | Global development | The Guardian”   https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/25/heroism-horror-and-the-pits-of-hell-inside-the-last-days-of-el-fasher   
  The world has also responded inadequately to the genocide in Gaza, and almost every single genocidal event over the last half century - with the belated response to some of the atrocities during the break up of Yugoslavia being a sort of exception. 
  I have not seen any of the moral outrage and commitment shown, however, to the calamity in Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War.   
  Each mass atrocity is an opportunity for the world to do better - El Fasher and Gaza have been missed, but there is another opportunity now in southern Lebanon:   “The Guardian view on Israel’s war in Lebanon: allies must not accept a repeat of the crimes in Gaza | Editorial | The Guardian”   https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/25/the-guardian-view-on-israels-war-in-lebanon-allies-must-not-accept-a-repeat-of-the-crimes-in-gaza   
  
  I commend that editorial, and the preceding articles, for consideration by the appropriate people  
  

As always, no reply to this email is necessary, but I am happy for it to be forwarded (preferably de-identified) and to discuss the items further if desired. 

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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Post No. 3,412 - Evil ... and anti-evil

I hate to write this, but evil appears to be winning, right now - not only by acting through the mind-in-neutral (amathiac) sock puppets and character-in-neutral “don’t upset them” enablers of patriarchy in, near, and acting for governments who are doing the evil of the far right (especially in the USA, but also to lesser extent with my nation's timid, inactive tending to ineffective on big issues national government - and elsewhere), including denying the capacity of young and lower income people by preventing them being taught critical thinking and rhetoric, but also through the cumulative effects of global disasters and the current risks in the Israeli-led US-acceded-to war against Iran and sanity. 

On that lattermost point, note these news articles: 

• “Why the world should worry about Israel’s nuclear doctrine”   https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/3/22/why-the-world-should-worry-about-israels-nuclear-doctrine   “The threshold the Israeli authorities have set for the use of a nuclear weapon is dangerously low”   

• “WHO officials admit they are preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran”   https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/iran-nuclear-weapons-who-warning-b2941153.html   “World Health Organisation staff remain ‘vigiliant’ in the event of a nuclear incident”   

• “Iran‑Israel ‘threshold war’ has rewritten nuclear escalation rules”   https://theconversation.com/iran-israel-threshold-war-has-rewritten-nuclear-escalation-rules-258965   

 

But there is another, clearer, and more concerning indicator: 

the loss of hope ...  

That became clear to me tonight through my young friend in Africa - the one we supported (his family, as well as him - and any Australian who whinges “it’s welfare, not social security” is a ****ing idiot - try standing in Việt Nam and giving a mother money to get medicine for her unconscious, ill child and knowing they need access to a hospital that I can’t provide, or knowing my friend’s family could only bring his father home to die painfully over several days after a workplace accident, knowing they would have no income as there is no social security for widows, the unemployed, etc in that nation [I’m NOT going to discuss how I know this to be true]) through Uni, and are still doing so as he obtains a necessary post-graduate qualification for his career: writing to him tonight, he is feeling that he is getting nowhere - which is something I can relate to, having felt the same too often since I retired.   

The widespread chaos and fear (especially of not being able to survive - whether financially or, in a war zone, physically) and unrelenting stress & pressure are increasing people’s vulnerabilities to evil, and too many people (especially politicians, but mostly voters who failed to recognise the obvious - perhaps out of spite, as much as ideological blindness) are succumbing ... 

And this is when it is even more important to keep trying - and to call out the rubbish that has been accepted as “normal” - more accurately: common or usual, but, in the long term, unnatural. 

I tend to get overwhelmed, take some time to recover as best I can, and then resume & continue.  

As I do so, I have the advantage of having studied history, which tells me that the fight to abolish slavery took over two and a half millennia, but was successful ... after which enslavers changed their methods, and nations adapted to that as well. 

Right now, evil is doing better than any time in the last 80 years - evil was possibly more successful in the 1930s and early 1940s than now, but not by much ... but it lost. 

Every empire that has existed has fallen - as the USA is doing now. 

From the other side, China had a “Century of Humiliation”, but is now well and truly emerging from that as a world power. 

The USSR created hell for around seven decades, but fell (and the fall was commercialised by the USA and thus sabotage, but the USA is not going to be in a position to do that sort of damage again). 

The so-called “Dark Ages” mostly weren’t (the elites lost out and gave it that label), but knowledge - especially scientific knowledge - was kept alive then in the world of Islam, and that so-called “Dark” Age came to an end. 

This too shall pass - and it is the inspiring example of Canada and the slowly re-emerging Europe that is cause for hope in the long term (even our timid Prime Manager has stood up to the USA’s leader), although they still have to learn how to be effective.  

And the work of this blog can help - even more so, Dear Reader, if you are able to make some improvements.  

Persist.  

 

PS - Overnight, this popped up in my feed:   

“Are Americans Just Stupid...”   https://alisav.substack.com/p/are-americans-just-stupid   “Or is it something else?”   This has an important insight (it is authoritarian parenting, not stupidity), and four important solutions (“✅ Call it what it is. Stop saying “economic anxiety.” Say trauma-bonded fascist loyalty. ... ✅ Protect the vulnerable. ... Defend trans kids. ... ✅ Deprogram where you can—but know your limits. ✅ Rebuild culture around empathy, not obedience. ... Make being kind cooler than being right.”)   There’s also some excellent and relevant commentary on problem parenting at Strongwilled (https://strongwilled.substack.com/), and the Knitting Cult Lady has some excellent insights into US cults (https://www.youtube.com/@KnittingCultLady)    

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.
  

 

If you appreciated this post, please share it. I am now on SubStack, Patreon, 
and you can support me at PayPal (or PayPal Repeating Support Options) or Ko-Fi 
Any and all support will be greatly appreciated, and will aid me in continuing this work 

 

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).

#PsychicABetterWorld   and  

Note that I am cutting back on aspects of my posts - see here, and Gnwmythr is pronounced new-MYTH-ear  

Copyright © Kayleen White 2007-2026     NO AI   I do not consent to any machine learning aka Artificial Intelligence (AI), generative AI, large language model, machine learning, chatbot, or other automated analysis, generative process, or replication program to reproduce, mimic, remix, summarise, or otherwise  replicate any part of this post or other posts on this blog via any means. Typo’s may be inserrted deliberately to demonstrate this is not an AI product.     Otherwise, fair and reasonable use is accepted under Creative Commons 4.0 on an Attribution-ShareAlike basis https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/