When I started this Substack publication, I brought over a bunch of my articles from my blog. I keep finding some that I didn’t bring over though, and that I think might still be of interest. So every once in a while, I’ll post one of them here. This one I think is particularly relevant, as I wrote it just about three years ago – before all of the Covid nonsense had begun – yet it addresses something that lies at the heart of all that we have witnessed since then:
Bretigne, you have a rare gift. You share your intimate thoughts (thoughts about how you see life around you, first-hand and reported, and how you ponder it, question it) with others. And you're deep. Because you choose to go deep.
Most don't. They live in soap opera, narrative level, parroting ideas and memes, responses without inspection, investigation, or analysis.
"At the other end of the spectrum are the people who don’t know their own minds at all."
**Yeah baby, you nailed it! (This is why so few want to be my friend, lol). This is "the crowd" mentality.
"I think a lot of people saw themselves in it, and I think they didn’t like that."
Many years ago at a local grocery store, I got into it with a "pacifist". He wanted all guns removed. So I said, "You support RAPE then?"
He fumbled for words like a fish out of water. And he got upset. Naturally, I upped the anti, "You can't have it both ways. Either you support the Rapist by removing all weapons from her, or you support her to defend herself against a stronger and faster opponent."
Instead of becoming interested that he was sentencing the victim to being raped, he was concerned with the reputation in his head.
This is the hallmark of the pseudo self, the false self that follows members...instead of seeking to understand (Stephen Covey 7 Habits...).
"We’ll never find out if we’re not willing to look into those dark corners. Sometimes we need to be disturbed." Yes! But woe to us that perform the disturbing...
Liked this article very much, very well written in support of your concept. Also, reminded me very much of what I thought after watching 'Falling Down', with Michael Douglas. Hmmmm. Don't expect to go see 'Joker', but I'm glad of your 'review'.
It can't be pure coincidence that I wrote a piece yesterday that is so harmonic with this piece of yours from 3 years ago. Something must be asking to be reckoned with, again, again, again.
Bretigne, you have a rare gift. You share your intimate thoughts (thoughts about how you see life around you, first-hand and reported, and how you ponder it, question it) with others. And you're deep. Because you choose to go deep.
Most don't. They live in soap opera, narrative level, parroting ideas and memes, responses without inspection, investigation, or analysis.
"At the other end of the spectrum are the people who don’t know their own minds at all."
**Yeah baby, you nailed it! (This is why so few want to be my friend, lol). This is "the crowd" mentality.
"I think a lot of people saw themselves in it, and I think they didn’t like that."
Many years ago at a local grocery store, I got into it with a "pacifist". He wanted all guns removed. So I said, "You support RAPE then?"
He fumbled for words like a fish out of water. And he got upset. Naturally, I upped the anti, "You can't have it both ways. Either you support the Rapist by removing all weapons from her, or you support her to defend herself against a stronger and faster opponent."
Instead of becoming interested that he was sentencing the victim to being raped, he was concerned with the reputation in his head.
This is the hallmark of the pseudo self, the false self that follows members...instead of seeking to understand (Stephen Covey 7 Habits...).
"We’ll never find out if we’re not willing to look into those dark corners. Sometimes we need to be disturbed." Yes! But woe to us that perform the disturbing...
Liked this article very much, very well written in support of your concept. Also, reminded me very much of what I thought after watching 'Falling Down', with Michael Douglas. Hmmmm. Don't expect to go see 'Joker', but I'm glad of your 'review'.
It can't be pure coincidence that I wrote a piece yesterday that is so harmonic with this piece of yours from 3 years ago. Something must be asking to be reckoned with, again, again, again.