thought experiments for frustrating the lizards

[click image, playlist, just over a half hour, and shorter if you just skip the first in the series]

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It should juxtapose nicely with today's Keiser Report.

Beside still getting waaaaay bummed by conversations such as the one this morning between Horton and Rockwell over at Antiwar, I am finding in my daily wandering that very many libertarians of the left or right are very big on loving thy neighbor and telling the truth, whatever foibles fall in there with them. It blows my mind that guys with political views that set most progressives off have been the loudest against the fascism and environmental catastrophe of the whole Gulf Blowout mess. Staunch, STAUNCH Christians are the most avid to get out the information that debunks the literal interpretation of the Bible, and toil away to bring us the facts about the "alternative" physics that becomes more obviously correct than the mainstream one taught as gospel in our schools and that garners billions in grants to perpetuate itself—with Creationism being NO part of their endeavor.

I think about things like, really, who CARES if some people are racists or homophobes or stupid or greedy or what-the-heck-ever? They're still our brothers and sisters and they DO have positive things to contribute, and who actually communicate lovingly with you, despite your political or social or racial or personal leanings, if you but communicate with them respectfully. HOW could that be such an obstacle for ANYONE? How could we be getting our own episodes on al Jazeera titled Is America Becoming Polarized? I'm like, hey, Sherlock, WTF is that in yer pipe that this is occurring to you as a topic only now? Crikey.

It's so STUPID, and worse than useless. It's actually dangerous, TO US, not to them. It's like Chris says, you don't have to MARRY these people. You don't have to agree with them on a whole lot of things to get along with them well enough to create the kind of society that can get back the reins from the space lizards.

So could we branch out in our occasional thought experiments with hearing the proponents of out there to hearing everyone else? Hearing Tea Partiers, homophobes, racists, fascists-in-denial, conspiracy nuts, religious kooks, the works? Could we look at it as though it were the modern equivalent of barn raising? Everyone from all around would come to help newcomers get their barns up fast, and the newcomers would become part of the greater community this way. People of different faiths and different political views and different economic circumstances would all have an unbreakable kind of solidarity with each other, be able to interact and to work together despite all differences, build their world into something flourishing and strong. The same can come of just deciding to drop everything you already think to HEAR other people, not let your manipulated mind and experience jerk your knee up to bash you in the chin so hard all your teeth break every single time somebody words something in a manner that offends you, or talks about stuff you think is bullshit, all of it. That's COMPLETELY unhealthy and counterproductive. You need to keep trying it to find out you like it, you live through it and come out better every time.

You're not gonna marry them. You have NO duty to attend their church or their parties. They're your fellows anyway, whether you like them or not, and there is great strength in finding solidarity with them. If you unplug from groupthink, shun all wildly partisan propaganda and just hear people without the filter, it will open the door to the way to make things work out well.

I swear it.

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