Post No. 3,445 - some further life reflections: sequential challenges/struggles against nonBPM/evil (~563 words; 4 minutes)

 

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(a golden dawn backlights grass stems leaning from left to right, and glistening with water droplets like gems)  

  

Something I have done quite a bit of over the last few years is reflecting on this life's journey. 

In many ways, one of, if not the, main aims in my life has been defeaating the evil known as neoliberalism. 

This is something that many others have been part of, and my role has probably been similar to that of a mid-level manager, in many ways. 

For context, I had some experience of being a ... foot soldier (actually, I was quite seriously told I was cannon fodder) in the struggle against that form of totalitarianism known as communism in the USSR ... and my work on advanced forms of working with energy is for use by those in the next great struggle - whatever that will be (I won’t try to guess, let alone write about what I think it could be: it is not for me to know, and my perceptions are coloured by the current multiple, major struggles). 

My life was not as well focused or clearly directed as I would have liked, but there were also other, personal lessons to go through (and, in some of those, I have realised that some warnings/admonishments/abjurations were from ... future me 😊 ). 

Be that as it may, in terms of the struggle against neoliberalism, the world is getting close to having a sufficiently adequate majority against that evil that it will be overcome - and, to quite an extent, much as with the vote that overthrew Orbán in Hungary, it is coming out of people who are experiencing the long- and thoroughly predicted shortcomings of that system.  

One of the reasons I was so willing to resist neoliberalism was that its flaws were so blindingly obvious - as were the flaws of those greedy, gullible, egregiously amathiac fools who allowed themselves to be duped by its lies and scammed by the mirages of its agents and their too miraculous claims. 

Unfortunately, while the evil system is starting to fall, the flaws that enabled it still at least partially still present ... I would suspect in a majority of the weak fools who enabled it. 

And that is why these problems keep recurring - in a changed form, it is true, but, much as the struggle against bigotry will only be won when we address bigotry itself, rather than whatever form it has found to act through of late, so too will the sequence of spiritual and moral and character challenges only stop when we start addressing the personal flaws that make them possible. 

PS - the separate, deeper, nuanced examinations of spirituality, psychic matters, and consciousness based approaches to UAPs/UFOs is helping the world to move towards addressing those flaws, but that work - excellent thought it is - is not yet being done at the necessary scale.  

 

Finally, one of the many problems of heavy psychic work is that it is not conducive to normal human connections, which means I am entering the final stages of my life, with its physical struggles to stay alive (breathing is an effort, at times) with no support - and, in fact, owing to some all too human decisions by me, with still active obligations that will see me going back to work. 

Life is a mix of the great and small, and we can fail or flourish on everything on that scale ...  

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. 3,243 - Some thoughts while waiting for the outcomes of the Treasurer’s economic roundtable

Photo by Igor Kyryliuk & Tetiana Kravchenko on Unsplash 
(brown pasture in foreground rising to a ridge in the midground and dark clouds in the background) 

 

(I was going to do this as an email to MPs, but have decided to post it here instead. I may add some links in coming days) 

We are waiting to see what the outcomes of the treasurer's economic roundtable will be, and in the interim I thought I'd provide a few thoughts. 

As a first point, we are dealing with the legacy of decades of neoliberal influence - most significantly through the utterly vile John Howard, who also incised into the Australian heart and soul the evils of racism and landlordism. 

Landlordism is, in essence, fooling people into thinking they can get rich quickly and easily through property investment; however, in my experience most lack the financial discipline and skills - especially with regard to identifying and managing risk ... - to be able to go anywhere near achieving that, and end up stressed and worse off as a result of being duped. Many also become tyrannical petty bureaucrats - and this all while too often providing sub-standard accommodations - despite a safe and secure home being a human right. 

Another major evil that has been exacerbated under neoliberalism is the emphasis on family in terms of being only the patriarchal model of lines of family being property established by blood or formal adoption connection (which evolved as part of the industrial revolution), which rules out caring, human-based connections. Africa does much better at human-based, compassionate connections with their philosophy of Ubuntu - which recognises that friends are a form of family that aren't connected by blood. 

That leads into the problem of people - such as myself - who have non-standard / non-conventional life cycles. 

I have not had children of my own, but I have helped five sets of kids ... . Although I had a constructive impact of almost all of these kids (three young males were problematic), and I had successes (including getting one lot to obey the law), they all incurred significant expenses that I had not planned for. Those financial problems were exacerbated by   [other family circumstances] . 

 

All of those have had a major adverse impact on my finances - as did seeing the flimsiness and lack of adequate temperature control of Australian housing (which has been described as functionally little better than tents) and refusing to be bedazzled by shiny sinks, glitzy fashionable light fixtures, and pretty curtains, and thus refusing to buy a house at the one time in my life (mid-1980s) when I could have (I was also was trying to get out of engineering, and moving interstate ... ). Another major problem in terms of income has been refusing to buy into the neoliberal transformation of workplaces into cults - forced cheerfulness, use of personal social media to publicise companies, maximising time at work at the expense of time with family (some of that family time was supposed to be part of work time!) and the often far more supportive than family friends who businesses pretend don't exist. 

... the problem of workplaces becoming cults is going to have to be addressed at some date - things like psychosocial safety are helping to undo some of the damage, but there is some harm that can only be addressed by naming and dealing with the problem head on - and especially the drivers of those changes. 

BTW, how does the Treasurer feel about UBI these days? I consider UBI has a lot of advantages, including not having to deal with Centrelink - which causes mental health damage to those citizens. 

And on Centrelink, I know people who feel physically ill at prospect of having to interact with Centrelink, and others who will work for long enough so they don't have to interact with Centrelink. As far as I can determine, there have been no surveys on this - I understand there have been surveys about satisfaction and problems with existing Centrelink users, but that is obviously useless as the problem I referring to is that of people who will not use or have given up on attempting to use Centrelink - and even with those surveys, I would like to see the questions to determine what questions were asked about problems such as feeling ill, etc, or that allowed open responses. 

In my case, I'm going back to work - despite my health problems - because of an inexplicable problem with the Centrelink/MyGov computer systems. 

I suspect the computer problem is limited thinking: I have never interacted with Centrelink - I have no children of my own, the arrangements mentioned above were informal... , I have worked continuously from 1985 until I left my job in 2023 ... and the system has not been set up to cater for this. 

There was no message on ANY of the times I tried to enter my data about how to fix the problem. Eventually I found a way of contacting Centrelink, but, given the problems with Centrelink I will not do so without a support person and potential witness with me, and I still trying to coordinate the multiple aspects of doing so. I have sought one expert group's advice, and they consider this is likely a technical glitch and not a policy problem, but that is still not cause to trust Centrelink. 

The problem continues. 

The thing about this is: I am not the only person in such a situation - and Robodebt seems to generally be accepted as having caused deaths by suicide. The decisions Centrelink staff are making every day are not deciding rules as an umpire does in a sports game: they are real decisions affecting whether people are homeless or not, starving or begging for aid from charities or strangers, able to access health care or - in other words: life or death. 

And having worked in nations where there is no social security, I do not want Australia to wind up a place where we have more people dying on our streets because of our lack of civilised attitudes as a result of too many small minded, suspicious, judgemental, bad-faith people having too much influence on what is supposed to be our social SECURITY. 

I hope whatever comes will adequately consider and address these points, as well as how to teach the incompetents who run businesses and made amathiac, wrong, and inflammatory comments at the roundtable what productivity actually is. 

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, 
and you can support me at PayPal (or PayPal Repeating Support Options) or Ko-Fi 

 

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 2007-2025     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/