Fools don't trust mirrors.
Fools don't trust mirrors.
Try to stay grounded in your intentions.
Don't preach to a choir, don't argue with a choir.
What matters to other people is what they think comes naturally to you without thinking.
A year from now we will be laughing.
[The purpose determines the course. If we are clear about 'why', then the how is more evident and we can define success.]
Indian music, sangeet, was originally conceived as an offering. Tagore said that creativity comes from a recognition of the excess that life has given to us: we offer what is bit ours.
More than people knowing who you are, give them chances to see you in action.
If it's essentially harmful can it be justified as 'temporary'?
[Contemporary utopia is resistance against entities claiming that history is over, that we should accept things as we are, that there are no alternatives.]
Nature is prolific.
Not all bricks are nourishing. Be aware of what is being practiced.
Nature is abundant. Nature does not imagine.
[Happiness is a choice.]
How can we appropriate the mind's repetition and 'latching onto things' to reinforce healthy practices?
[Focus on laying a perfect brick everyday and eventually you'll look up and there will be a wall.]
What can I say or offer as a pleasant surprise to the other person?
[Recognize when nothing seems to be working and stop, wait, meditate, reboot. Don't force anything.]
[Use the things for which people pick on you as a base to rest into. Someone has an issue with your skin color? Relax into your skin. With your weirdness? Be boldly weird. With your insecurities? Be radically vulnerable.]
[Go beyond consent, create a space where one can ask for what they want, move towards celebrating all requests and refusals.]
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- The white public's indifference to the well-being of people of colour ensures that any response to racist violence is minimized.
- The media's white-centric perspective on domestic and foreign events and vilification of people of colour reinforces the first layer.
- The trolls flip back and forth between jokes and seriousness, which provides plausible deniability.
- The appeal of jokes by 3 can appeal widely to include a multiracial audience, thereby protecting the previous layers from accusations of racism.
- Alt-media uses cover from 3 and 4 to shift from joking to serious.
- Politicians legitimize extremist views from 5 and give them the force of law and policy.
- Tokens are leveraged by 6 to delegitimize claims of oppression.
- The hipster nazis present themselves as clean-shaven, well-educated, and reasonable rationalists to exploit faults in the Left's confrontation style.
- White supremacist representation in law enforcement protects the interests of politicians while brutalizing freely.
- Organized white nationalists use 8 to speak loudly and recruit disaffected youth to the cause.
- Lone wolves feed on information from other layers, ready to enact ideological violence, but remain unconnected to anyone and are disavowed by others.
- Decentralized troll farms artificially inflate the support of certain ideologies and undermine truth.
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