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Anti Trump is Pro Trump [1]

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Date: 2025-01-26

In the Reification of Media and the numbing of the consumer’s brain — to be against is to be for.

The trap is simple — in order to try and stop something you must constantly talk about that thing and in the repetition of that - the thing gets bigger and bigger.

KOS might as well be the Trump channel.

Nearly every # at the top of this page is a click bait to fear and a call for others to do something and everyone on kos to pat you on the back for an educated opinion and online courage.

It is an endless reaction video clicked on by readers who are addicted to the consistent pain and torture of a fascist society.

Here’s just 1 way of seeing the problem:

The bully does hurtful torturous things :

We write articles proclaiming we should worry, be afraid, be scared, be fearful etc ….

We call on other people to rise to the occasion and stop the bully

The bully attacks the frontal assault on the bully — then we mourn that

So — in the repetition and endless cycling of this shit

1. Online complaining and pontificating takes the place of being a real citizen and doing concrete things

2. The bully is always on top of the news and all reality is sucked into the gravitational pull of the bully

3. the best offer given to those who are upset is — stop the bully. And the longer the shit show drags out the greater the bully’s reach and actual power and cult grows. And the fewer options of having something other than the bully are available.

How to change in the current society.

Stop using the internet and media to self assuage yourself that you are doing anything — you are not.

Think through — support — and develop alternative futures that are for the things you are for and clearly articulate the workings and logical functioning of that world.

Make it easy for anyone else to participate in their own way and with their own voice and without a need to be a target of the opposition.

The more your participation is about a thing that is not in the political spin cycle and attention grabbing in the media — the more things actually change.

Ex.

To be against climate change is noble

the evil bullies are hastening the apocalypse — and they are

Talk talk talk — complain complain complain — petition —demand accountability for politicians and world leaders all you want— nothing changes at the rate of change we need to stop the problem.

So stop feeding yourself accolades of praise for an opinion and the great self education and learning you have gone through to understand how bad it is and what others need to do for you.

What can you physically do? How can you take that idea and test it? Can other people see how it works and copy it? Can you let go of owning the idea and actions and do them because you like doing them? can others do the same?

Once you start getting these kinds of questions worked out you will be making the world a better place and actively making the world we all need. When we are really good at focusing on the universality of the action and the making the public examples easy to contribute to and emulate — others will copy it. If it makes common sense and outside of the political brawl — it can easily become a cultural norm.

Plant something, ride a bike, beautify a park, join a gardening club, pick up litter, compost, stop buying crap, make your consumed food from scratch, support a csa, get your clothes from thrift stores, spend time with friends in nature and make communal activity that is not centered on luxury items being acquired and spending money and participating in the system that is destroying humanity. Share with other people . Let go of desires for bright shiny objects.

Greed has always been the ingredient that destroys human achievement and harmony.

Greed is the accumulation game on steroids — you cant take it with you, and the acquisition of anything requires the dedication to it and the days of your life are frittered away clinging to something as if it were the only truth.

In other words — the collective global “we” have the world we live in because we believe in it and perpetuate it out of habit and constant gaming within it for advantage. Human history has devolved into an accumulation and ownership game cemented in violence and gang warfare always with some form of caste and governance to legitimize the caste system Du jour.

A politician is someone who shows up at the parade and grabs your banner. So why give them the parade at all.

We are in an extreme era of performative politics, no accountability, and complete detachment from physical processes and understanding of nature, science and logical outcomes as well as physical outcomes.

We want the fantasy life – we want it promised and it’s ok if it never comes and all we do is fight for the lies and forced conformity to it.

Everybody knows the maga verse is never gonna deliver a better life – but it it gains traction for people who can have better by taking from others and accumulating more more more for themselves. Strong men.

The good news is that the overwhelming majority of people don’t want this shit and will change desires and and entire life habits IF they see others living differently and desire that kind of life. So go make those changes in your life and share them without politics and strings of conformity and power dynamics. Belief precedes reality and experience changes actions and behavior regardless of stated beliefs.

Get rid of your need to be important in a world of theater — get connected to the cohesion of connection to nature —human suffering — and the physical world as it is when the tv phone and internet aren’t the glasses through which you digest reality. Live within the actual world and be the change within it.

We are all gonna die — anything that is born, dies. There is no grand purpose and universal truth. You were born into a fish bowl at a moment in this ever changing reality — the conditions and physical objects that are in the fishbowl are what you think the world logically must be — it is your normal. Earth will die,mars will die, the milky way will die, universes will come in and out of existence — and that is what is up front and observable so why do we need to be remembered? It is far better to fully engage in the moment and connect to the eternal that resonates withing you - than to do things for a later glory and a delay of immersion in the world you wish you lived in.

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