NOTICE:
From any post click the photo across the page top to see the entire blog.
JAMES' PERSONAL WRITINGS: SLOVING
JAMES' MOST STRATEGIC POSTS: *****
MUCH OF MY POSTING WAS ON FACEBOOK: STARTLOVING1

10.10.2007

PEACE MOVEMENT: BLACK HOLE OF DENIAL.

To my extreme horror, simply by the fact of my "being" I embarrassed the woman I was married to for 25+ years for a whole host of reasons obvious to anyone that covets Empire. Among the reasons was the range of things of which I am profoundly ignorant - sports, what is in vogue, trendy language, cocktail banter....

Psychology is not one of the areas of which I am ignorant. Trained seven years ago at the Master's level, psychology has been a lifelong obsession and study of mine, reading the great works and thinkers well beyond most PHD's I'll guess.

Denial properly understood is very simple. Denial is 1/2 of how we manage our limited capacity for attention - direction of our nervous system. We can by whatever name work to "pay" our attention in one direction while working passively, aggressively, consciously or automatically to DENY attention in other directions. Examples of what I mean, what we all do, that I might be clearer with you:
  1. On my 24/7 Capitol Hill Hunger Strike, I employ a variety of techniques much of the night to deny attention to the slamming in-driveway-retractable-vehicle-barriers 25 yards from where I attempt to rest on the steps of Cannon House Office Building, in order to preserve my nerves, avoid wasted attention and get some rest.
  2. You desperately wanted to go on a "date" but realized your High School Exam the next day would suffer. You go on the date.
  3. Your child's planet is going to Hell literally on every dimension, but you retain your "normal" life rather than rise as patriot / hero / great activist (high and low)... have done throughout history.

What is going on is what we all do to some degree - MISUSE DENIAL TO OUR DESTRUCTION (SMALL OR GREAT). Duh, Start.

Dear reader, please take mercy on me and explain to me what I cannot now see differently. We in the peace movement are in catatonic denial of:

  1. WE ARE OUT OF TIME.
  2. OUR HEROISM AND SELF SACRIFICE MUST EXCEED THAT OF OUR GREATEST PREDECESSORS IN HISTORY.
  3. OUR COMMITMENT, SELF SACRIFICE, ETC, WELL, ER UM, CURRENTLY IT DOES NOT EXIST. (QUESTION: WHO BESIDES AMY, ANN, DIANE, CINDY ARE RISKING EVERYTHING? ANSWER: STOCK TRADERS, SILICON VALLEY ENTREPRENEURS, BLACKWATER, BECHTEL, PENTAGON, BUSH....) OOOPS, I FORGOT THE PEACE ACTIVIST COMMUNITY! OH. NO I DIDN'T.

SUCCESS IS 1% INSPIRATION,
99% PERSPIRATION.
FOR THE "PEACE" ACTIVISTS
SO FAR IT IS "NO SWEAT!"

[THIS POST IS NOT FINISHED,
BUT IT IS 2:14AM 10/12 AND
COURT IS AT 9AM. NIGHT.]

No comments:

Post a Comment