As a child in the 60s and 70s, I saw the hippie movement - but from a distance. As I grew, and particularly as a teenager in the 70s, my spirituality matured, and I saw the potential of that movement to change society into something better - more caring, less greedy/materialistic ...
And then I saw most of the hippies walk away from what they were advocating for, and embrace the shallow, destructive greed of the 80s.
To describe them as traitors is too strong - it ignores the casual indifference to those principles that they had been evincing, but I will describe them as betrayers ... contemptible, indifferent to caring, betrayers.
However, not all were betrayers - there are still, for instance, some communes (although commercial parasites tend to accumulate around the peripheries of too many of those), and their numbers are too few to change society - especially given the damage done to their credibility by the betrayers, which damage means the effort to change society has been increased, in my opinion, by a factor of several times.
There have, however, been successful movements for change, and those were the basis of work by Erica Chenoweth and Maria J Stephens that I linked to here, which - at that time, in the world as it was then - indicated that “civil resistance movements that engage at least 3.5% of the population have never failed to topple a dictator”.
Dictators/despots/authoritarians/whatever term you want to use for those nonBPM IPOCs are also capable of learning and adapting, and are far better organised - especially globally - and FAR more brutal, savage, and indifferent to damage and suffering (an attitudinal crime they share with the hippie betrayers) than they used to be, as elucidated in Anne Applebaum’s “Autocracy, Inc.” (Penguin, 2024, ISBN 978-1-802-06213-7; reviews by NPR, Foreign Affairs magazine, Good Reading; purchase at Penguin, Kobo, Apple Books, Amazon), so I consider the required percentage likely higher now.
But the percentage required is a number that DOES EXIST, and Joan Westenberg recently wrote that the median life a dictatorship is around nine years - and, although the basis for that wasn’t indicated (that I saw), I consider her a sound and credible source and take hope also from that indication of a limit to the life of most dictatorships. After all, as she pointed out, dictators will eventually die, and the grasping for power they have means they are exceptionally bad at sharing power and thus exceptionally incompetent at passing power on.
And for those that do pass power on (e.g., various past empires), they also come to end (e.g., all past empires).
Furthermore, there are people detailing ways that what needs to be done can be done - I list some of these in my weekly reflections post, as follows:
for links on what can be done - now, see here [Indivisible] and Dem-Optimism and this [Robert Reich] and this [AOC] and this [Devon Price] aand this [PBS Voices] and this [on burnout] and this [efficacy of nonviolent protest] and this book and this book and this and these links
Other people and methods are mentioned in many, if not most of my reflections posts.
And the work of this blog is also relevant, as I wrote about in:
- “Post No. 3,039 - the current global magickal battle” https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2025/02/post-no-3039-current-global-magickal.html
- and include in the “Routine explanation/commentary” section of my near weekly Psychic Weather Report (PWR) posts.
(Another post I will mention, as it has what I consider useful information, is “Post No. 2,935 - An excellent analysis on how [the current US president] came to power” https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2024/11/post-no-2935-excellent-analysis-on-how.html )
However, there are warnings that should be noted as well.
In particular, there are people who we should be wary of - beginning with those former supporters experiencing what is often described as “buyer’s regret”, for reasons outlined here.
I include those who chose not to vote in with those people, and for the same reasons - which still leaves at least ⅓ of US voters (well above the 3.5% mentioned above, and likely above whatever the adjusted percentage is now), and all those outside the USA who want change for the better.
But there are others who need to be viewed with wariness - and the majority of the US Democrats are at the top of that list, not only for floundering since 2016, but also for their failure to act on matters such as abortion and gerrymandering/voter suppression.
In addition, as an outsider looking in, I personally would also view with wariness:
- the US Marshals, who have not enforced any progressive court orders that I am aware of, but may have aided regressive court orders;
- still serving FBI agents, at least some of whom have aided the repressive acts of the current US regime; and
- DC police, who bore the brunt of the insurrection but at least some of whom have aided the repressive acts of the current US regime.
These, along with all those who failed to take action over the last half century or so (and I am thinking of many in my nation and others), are people who I consider noncredible.
And I point out, again, that NONE of what is happening now is “business as usual” - in fact, there is an argument that what is being done now is worse (as it is quicker and more effective) than the world’s first run-in with fascism.
When you are doing whatever you can to make the world a better place, especially if you are doing the work of this blog, do NOT try to save everyone - everyone will be rehabilitated, but that may need multiple lifetimes, and is being looked after by the BPM Guides and Higher Selves of those people.
For now, keep a sense of perspective and balance, and minimise harm as a higher priority.
But DO do what you can - and the work of this blog may well be the safest way for many to take action. And I would suggest you try the previous reminder post as a guide.
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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).#PsychicABetterWorld and may all that I do be of value and actively BPM used for and by the nonphysical BPM
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