Post No. 2,891 - On resisting progressive change

Something I have wondered about at times (including my previous post) is why some people resist progressive change - which includes people who claim to be, or to want to be spiritual, as so many of them are aiming to protect their social status and thus engage in things like spiritual bypassing.

I consider such matters on my political blog as well - for instance,   “A question: where does cluelessness / being out-of-touch come from?”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/09/a-question-where-does-cluelessness.html      

But today’s thought - or thought process - started by contemplating something I read somewhere recently, and have been trying to track down in the last 12 hours - unsuccessfully (it was, I thought, either in something Robert  Reich  wrote, or in Timothy  Snyder’s new book “On Freedom” [pub. Vintage Digital, 19 September 2024, ISBN 978-1-529-92927-0; website, NPR review, goodreads; Penguin, Kobo, Apple books, Amazon], but could also have been somewhere on The Guardian):  a comment to the effect that left wing inclined people identify with victims, whereas right wing inclined people are drawn to people who have power.

It was the aspect of being drawn to power that caught my attention - particularly as I had seen something online which had characters who were praising the alleged virtue of blind loyalty.

That is a problem in the corporate world, although I am aware (e.g., from “Briefing for the Landing on Planet Earth”) that many people want to be part of something bigger - which can be either “good” (BPM) or “bad” (nonBPM). 

From a spiritual perspective, people who are willingly submerging themselves in power structures - whether they are doing so for social status or protection or a sense of superiority or some other character flaw - are abdicating their personal sovereignty and sacrificing their maturity by outsourcing their ethics, thinking, and personality to others. 

They would prefer to be a happy serf, even if it means - as it does - that they are stepping out of the flow of life, and stagnating into a pale shadow of what they could be if they were truly courageous ...

Of course, the same problem can crop up - with slight variations - elsewhere, including elsewhere on the political spectrum, but I consider this awareness is going to help me with my spiritual work and with my activism - especially as it is this problem on the right wing that is destroying the world in so many ways right now ...

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. 2,890 - Miscellaneous perspectives

As my first thought for this post, a comment I have read a few times in the news reports on the latest violence in West Asia is that some events were not as bad as expected - for instance, that Israel’s ground invasion into Lebanon was smaller than expected. 

So, while terrible events are still occurring, and trauma and other effects are being created, they are not as bad as they could be - which is no comfort to those who are suffering, but I suspect it is still signs of some beneficial effect on the part of those who are working for a better world ... which includes those people doing the work of this blog, but also includes all those protecting, writing to elected representatives, and others doing their magickal work elsewhere. 

It is, perhaps, the best that can be done in a world tainted by having the likes of Putin, Trump, and Netanyahu in power - and it should be acknowledged, and, to the extent possible, celebrated or at least welcomed. 

On the other hand, I have noticed that I need to let go of tending to take other people’s decisions to not be good somewhat personally. Yes, there is work to do to contain the harm of such decisions, and to heal the victims of those people, but I need to do that work more dispassionately - not without emotion, particularly not without the emotion of love, but without being as personally upset when I see others make bad decisions, or shut themselves off from the suffering they are causing. 

I will add a word spell on that to my candles in due course. 

That also leads on to my next few thoughts: 

• this might be tied up with me getting closer to the end of this incarnation, and is part of preparing to move on (to an interesting spiritual work opportunity); 

• one of the problems in this world is those resisting change/enabling the nonBPM are often afraid of or uncomfortable with change: how can we get them to be comfortable? Some of that lies with parents passing on their (non-genetic) personality flaws, but some of that also lies with society more broadly, and with key people in that society; and 

• another problem is people being so focused on themself that they do not notice people with quite strengths or power doing work quietly to make the world a better place. It is almost as if some people are incapable of noticing such good if it fails to come with a brass marching band and marketing campaign - and that leads to come real damage to what the quiet ones are trying to do (which often needs peace or at least quiet to flourish).
  This also brings to mind one incident I came close to including in my Complicity by Complacency post, which was when I was reviewing the design inputs for a road project (as part of a QAQC role I had), I pointed out that they also needed to list the road rules - the laws governing times to changes lanes, etc, and ... they refused! They arrogantly said “well tell Parliament to change the laws later”! The arrogance and hubris - and professional INCOMPETENCE - of those know-it-alls was appalling ... and I refused to sign off on their design inputs so was switched out of that role.
  

But I need to let go of their decision to not be good, and get on with my day.

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(Gnwmythr is pronounced new-MYTH-ear)  

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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