I haven’t posted much on this blog this week (although, as my last post indicated, there is off-line work being done), but I have been posting on my political blog. The list of posts from my interesting reading post is:
“Another trans right activism email” https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/08/another-trans-right-activism-email.html “A poem to bad managers” https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/08/a-poem-to-bad-managers.html “On living with “invisible” (non-apparent) disabilities” https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/08/on-living-with-invisible-disabilities.html “Australia’s national ALP government’s re-election campaign as compared to the Harris-Walz campaign for the US Presidency” https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/08/australias-national-alp-governments-re.html “A major win for trans+ rights” https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/08/a-major-win-for-trans-rights.html “Some news links on history” https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/08/some-news-links-on-history.html
I don’t want to comment on all of those, but there are a few supplementary comments I want to make in the context of this blog.
Firstly, the major win for trans (being used as shorthand for trans and gender diverse) rights.
A key aspect of this is the fact of indirect discrimination. I and others have been pointing out that indirect discrimination was real and a major problem in trans abuses, but the established non-trans activists were dismissive, patronising, and condescending about the topic. Their attitude showed them to either have ... limitations of competence, problems with sharing the “abuses stage”, or outright transphobia (possibly internalised).
If, on the other hand, they had listened to the experts on trans matters (us), the situation would have been better years ago - and likely lives would have been saved.
Because that’s one of the other points here: things like misgendering kill trans and gender diverse people.
So ... morally, ethically, and spiritually, but not legally, those who poo-pooed the facts that we were pointing out have, in my opinion, blood on their hands.
And some of those people were trans and gender diverse people who are personally comfortable with being misgendered (or amathiacally “thought” ignoring the problem was some sort of “sophisticated” or “smart” strategy ... !!!) and arrogantly considered everyone else should be the same as them - which is inherently the opposite of being inclusive, and thus is, in spiritual principle, the same behaviour as that shown by transphobes.
Now, these behaviours show a range of spiritual/character flaws - arrogance, hypocrisy, tokenism being fairly predominant amongst those.
The significance of those problems is that they are typically formed and nurtured in other areas of life, so when we accept our personal (or others’) spiritual mediocrity or inadequacies elsewhere, we are not just limiting ourselves or making life harder for those who live with/interact with us, we are potentially feeding into broader problems - problems that could cost lives.
As I’ve written in a few places, we contribute to the psychic-social soup that we live in - often a minor effect, but sometimes our most significant effect is either strengthening a trend others started/grew (whether good or bad) or failing to block a bad trend that others started/grew.
Even if you cannot stop a bad trend totally, do you really want to live with having failed to act - with having failed to do what you knew was right, possibly out of the arrogant saviour-complex attitude that you couldn’t fix it all totally yourself (or directly see a perfect outcome that was clearly linked to your personal input)?
Next, my post on living with “invisible” (non-apparent) disabilities.
Non-apparent is the preferred, more accurate term, but invisible seems to me to often be used for greater psychological impact in the audience. For now, I’ll continue with invisible (but don’t be surprised if, after further reflection, I come back and edit it to favour non-apparent).
Anyhow, what I want to add to, is my comment about how things like my autistic voice limited my capacity to be a leader. Burnout and sensory overload issues, and the need for time out to manage those, are also key points (that I will probably add as a postscript to that post), but those problems are less issues with regard to the sort of spiritual practices I cover in this blog.
That means, I may not be able to be a political leader, but I can still play a role - or more easily play a role - spiritually.
That also, I suggest, applies to others ... And with that perspective in mind, maybe re-read my first set of comments above.
PS - the lack of confidence that can come with being neurodivergent, and the sometimes limited ability to visualise, are ways that being neurodivergent can potentially also hinder psychic ability
Finally, I posted an article with a few links on historical matters. The significance of that is that it reminds us to learn what we can from what others have done - and to contribute to others being able to learn from what we have done - good and bad.
In my first set of comments, I was referring to actions from a quarter of a century ago - so there has been a sustained refusal to learn for a quarter of a century ...
That’s not particularly significant in terms of human history, with a two and a half millennia struggle against slavery and ten or twelve millennia struggle against patriarchy, but in terms of an active, adapting, modern human rights movement, it is a shocking failure.
Our human world is better connected than it ever has been before, but character limitations such as discomfort with change or the rate of change (as pointed out by Alvin Toffler in the 1970 book “Future Shock”), or refusal to grieve at having to let go of a cherished but outdated skill/aspiration/worldview.
Examples of items to be let go of include: the skill of being able to maintain and operate a good card index system, the aspiration of wanting to be the first human on the moon, and any worldview which includes the wrong notion that slavery is in any way, shape or form defensible, when it clearly is not.
On the other hand, we can learn from others around the globe - something many people are aware of.
What I think hasn’t been fully appreciated yet is that we can share learning across time.
To quite an extent that is still best done through books, but my ultimate audience when I started blogging was me in a future incarnation ...
I wanted future me to read a succinct (well, I have got carried away a bit too much for that word to apply ... I’ll have to add that word in this context to my list of things to let go of) summary or distillation of what I have already been through and learned in this life.
Now, that isn’t actually applicable, as my lessons in future lives are likely to be different and I will hopefully have integrated the key lessons during the in-between life phase (not to mentioned the blog will probably no longer exist except in some version of a WayBack machine), but the intention is useful to illustrate the concept of learning across time.
History and education provide lessons from the past, but we need to remember we can formulate the lessons we want to pass on to the future - and do so best by the way we think, what we decide, and what we do or don’t do NOW.
Food for thought, I hope.
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