Michael Yon, whose missives to my inbox tend to contain a call to attention and preparation, along with truths and genuine concerns that ride the edge of doom and gloom, sent a video link yesterday. It went to one of those in-the-moment cartoon drawings on whiteboard illustrations/explanations, presented by After Skool. This one, liberally sprinkled with paintings and quotations, was entitled "A Killing of the Mind", on the subject of Mass Psychosis--how an entire population becomes mentally ill. As I was watching it, part of me felt like I was being sold something and another part was saying, "Oh, my! Does this make sense or what??" Figuring out where to land after taking it in involved looking up Gustav Le Bon, Joost Meerloo, and Vaclav Havel for a start. Toward the end of the video, a five fingered approach (referred to in the vid as "multi-pronged!) to the problem of mass psychosis was listed, coincidentally providing yet another possible answer to the earlier question of which finger to lift!
From the video, the first step in their approach is to "bring order to our own minds, and live in a way that provides inspiration to others". Then commit to:
-Spread information that counters propaganda as far and wide as possible, for "truth is more powerful than the fiction and falsities pedaled by would be totalitarian rulers".
-Use humor and ridicule to delegitimize the ruling elite
-Construct "Parallel Structures" (per Vaclav Havel) as any form of organization--business, institution, technology, or creative pursuit that exists physically within a totalitarian society yet morally outside of it. (more explanation at the 19:15 mark)
-Action, practiced by as many people as possible, in a deliberate, concerted effort to move the world back in the direction of freedom
Here's the link, (which I can't get to imbed) for your own consideration as you regard the dilemma of what to believe, how to move forward and which finger you may or may not wish to raise:
https://rumble.com/vo0dwu-mass-psychosis-how-an-entire-population-becomes-mentally-ill.html
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Much like Uncle Saul, ridicule undercuts terror. Let's Go Brandon and the I Did That! stickers show how it's done.
All three of the men quoted were born in Europe and lived through one of the World Wars, with Meerloo going through both:
Gustav Le Bon 1841-1931 French
Vaclav Havel 1936-2011 Czech, served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then as the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003.
Joost Meerloo 1903-1976 Dutch/American Born in the Netherlands, naturalized in US in 1950, resumed Dutch citizenship in 1971.
Leading me to wonder if all three, peculiar as they may have been, knew a thing or two about human nature, war, freedom, and life under oppression?
The first step listed in the video, that of bringing order to our own minds, and living in a way that provides inspiration to others, struck me as open yet also in line with Peck's definition of mental health as "the ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs". It also was a fit with the legacy I'd said my dad left his family, by living in a way that provided inspiration, regardless of the peculiarities and shortcomings that stemmed from his own upbringing, woundings, and brokenness.
I felt pleased and intrigued to have found these five answers so soon after posing the question online in an earlier post: In daily life, what does lifting a finger to halt the decline look like or involve? I delight in that form of mystery, which could be a coincidence, but seems from my perspective more in keeping with the verse learned in childhood as a song: “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”
And Yes, the stickers and Let's Go Brandon, show how it's done. Along with the speaking up and spreading of truth in alternative places that are starting to take place.
When I heard a young man, reviled by some, honored by others, speak out on national television, look into the camera, address President Biden directly by name and say:
"Mr. President, if I would say one thing to you, I would urge you to go back and watch the trial, and understand the facts before you make a statement.” I was close to pole-axed, taken aback by his simplicity, boldness, sincerity, and directness.
There it was: Understand the facts before you make a statement! Who hasn't held that thought and wished they could direct a statement like that at Biden? Or Trump for that matter? Could a controversial child end up being part of a process that ultimately pulls back the curtain to reveal the emperor's lack of clothes? One step of many that need to be taken by those who do care to lift whatever finger works for them?
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