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A Symmetrical Unity [1]

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Date: 2025-01-13

In a few short days the seat of power will change.

The incoming administration is loaded with media personalities prepped and groomed in delivering a message.

it will be non stop and an effort to dominate all media outlets. Brainwashing — and it is nothing new to America.

Are your beliefs and values marginal? Do people really believe the lies? Is there a bottom? Is there a breaking point? Can they force an agenda down your throat?

These are the articles that will be written against the administration. then people will scramble as the progressive attack on the admin is countered with defamation suits and a clamp down on the truth.

Hearst did it. the NYT does it etc…. etc….etc….

The the plantation economies and robber baron economies have been the norm far longer than anything else in our history as “civilized” humans around the globe and Americans in particular. Movements for unity and against the greed and destruction of nature and human lives for limited personal gain are kept out of the history books, but they are they way things change.



So lets look at the world from 10 miles up and see the lay of the land.

Why should people organize in a way that is turning opposition into a veritable meat grinder of your energy, and depending on the state of affairs — your life?

1. You are out financed on media and the tightening grip is not in your favor.

2. Shocking a brainwashed population ( the percent we do not know) into awareness or action requires force against force. And this administration wants a fight — it’s central to the plan.

3. Well manufactured consent of popular opinion and control of bureaucracy is what you are up against.

DO NOT ENGAGE IN A FIGHT — you are a squirt gun up against a assault rifle.

What you do have, and what cannot be decoded and turned into warfare against you is A symmetrical Unity. Go out and join community groups that have no political strings — or get rid of your political boasting when you do join. The more people find common purpose and strength in their diversity the more that will get done to solve the critical crisis issues that government and polices are not resolving.

In a calendar year — the number of opportunities you have to cast a ballot are limited. You get to vote with your money and time every day. If you spin your wheels online and in internet and media obsessions — you have given away your power and waste your time on a field that someone else controls.

Any and all of us that let go of the structural battle and engage in A symmetrical change can rest assured every day and night that they did something to move the ball forward, that your drop of water in the ocean was not wasted. You are more likely to be spiritually fulfilled and have your needs met. You are also less likely to blame others for your misfortune and have the ability to see how the future can be changed. If you can let go of vanity — you will create a movements and consensus that the forces of greed and control are not built to attack.

Strength and survival requires diversity- only working with the people that agree with you is not diversity. Diversity requires people and ideas that are in opposition on the surface — find universal commonality and strength through unity.

What is to be done?

1. Find your passion — figure out how to universalize that passion. Now act on that passion in a way that allows your perceived enemy to join — and then can because you have universalized the idea and issue. there is only 1 human race — fascist, liberal, conservative, independent, anarchist, religious fundamentalist etc …… all need to eat, drink, shit, sleep, breathe etc….. we are at a point in human history where our systems of greed and consumption have disabled our ability to have these things. killing each other and Waring to be king of the mountain is pointless. It is going to take us all out — faster. So strip your vision of blame and get to the universal.

2. Share. You don’t have to be an open book for others to assault and take advantage of. Jesus pointed out that people who make a big display when the offering plate comes around are not gaining favor with the lord they are hollow bells.

3. Diversity is Strength.

I used to do this exercise with a kids program. i would hand out 12 ft stings of yarn to the group.

1 person comes to the center and has a tug of war with just 1 string with 1 other person — and voila — the string breaks. Take the group — split it in 2 and put all the strings together — let 2 people try a tug of war — the string holds — braid those strings and they hold stronger — I’ve had large groups use the combined strings and have a 10 on 10 (20 strands of yarn) have multiple tugs of war using the rope of yarn.

Diversity is not having everyone who agrees with you join forces. Diversity is having a universal agreement amongst people who are and are not on your “side” — when done right there is no “side” it’s just common sense to those who are participating.

The Franklin stove is a good example. Benjamin Franklin invented a better stove and then gave it away patent free so anyone could make it. It made homes warmer and cut down the amount of wood it took to heat and eat. All Americans benefited. So did the environment and the local blacksmiths and regional entrepreneurs who could freely manufacture them without copyright infringement.

4. Let go of Structural opposition.

The idea that the only way to get change is to get numerical superiority and then beat out the opposition — this idea is inefficient and not the “only” way change happens.

* If it were true then why is it that a minority of the population oppresses you?

Great ideas are replicated by other humans — think of the old notion of “keeping up with the Jones’ ”

Human beings love to copy other human beings and are jealous greedy creatures — or humans love to create lives that are easier and more abundant — the behavior changes depending on the mindset and opportunity to improve your life. In a plantation economy people will run through the mouse trap to get theirs. in a community — people o act in unison because everyone benefits.

If you have a shared idea that is taken up by a diversity of people — the personal interests of the individual align with the greater good and the structural hoarding models dissolve.

5. Beliefs precedes reality. Experience alters belief.

Stop arguing with people to prove you are right and they are brainwashed idiots. You will loose, they will not change, and even when you win the argument — you have not made real change in the world — you have expended a large amount of time and resources to affect opinions not actions.

People are what they do — not what they say. Ideas and arguments become grand excuses and delusions to justify horrible behavior. If you attack the idea — so what — your opponent will readily move on to the next lie to maintain advantage anyway.

*People do the things they do against their best interests because they believe it is the necessary choice for perpetuation of their lives and advantages.

* Experiences that produce good results and are counter to beliefs — force a change in beliefs.

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