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The Only Way Forward is to Acknowledge Each Other’s Fear
The deeper reason for our collective anxiety is not a virus
I’m getting sick and tired of the polarization that is going on around me. Not in real life really, but in hyperreality out there.
Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc. You know, big tech censor-land.
Happily, I still have some great friends, that I know for more than 30 years, they both got the jab and still love me. We exchange hugs.
17 months of propaganda in the biggest sales pitch ever in the history of humankind, combined with the biggest and most irresponsible fear-mongering media campaign of all times is asking its toll.
Christianity scaring the shit out of people with their brilliant marketing tool, hell, lasted 500 years and ended with trying to kill everybody who didn’t believe. Probably that was worse.
But still.
With the help of a very good friend, I’ve figured out a possible way forward.
When somebody is in freeze from fear, is suffering from tunnel vision, is highly contracted into spasms of outrage, finds him or herself trapped in dangerous groupthink, demonetizing fellow humans, we need to realize that these are all defence mechanisms.