06-24-2020, 05:22 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-24-2020, 05:25 AM by Black Dragon.)
(06-24-2020, 04:31 AM)Navaratna Wrote:I'm not into politics like when I was fresh out of high school, and I agree that a lot on the left, especially the very far left, are totally authoritarian. The far left and far right are more similar to one another than either is to the middle. I only get political and bash Trump when people start looking at him as a savior figure or an outsider to a system he's clearly a part of. It's just "trendy" now to hate anything even remotely "left wing", and people feel that they are somehow rebelling against the system by doing so, when they are really just being played.(06-23-2020, 09:48 PM)Spaced Wrote:(06-23-2020, 12:48 AM)Navaratna Wrote: I think looking back just a few years or decades from now people will just think of how absurdly dumb people were and what the reasoning was for people to form gigantic crowds shoulder to shoulder claiming that the lives of one particular ethnic group mattered as a result of one person being killed..hundreds of miles away from where the majority of the protests even happened.
...During a plague that is spread by people being in close contact.
These people are going to be remembered as tremendously self-important on a truly dangerous level.
How do people look back on the civil rights movements of the 60s?
That brought good changes but this has enabled a lot of rioters to burn and loot communities which people can say all they want about how that wasn't the protestors themselves but the fact is that they enabled the thieves. Knowingly. This will bring some positive changes but for the most part I think it's foreign governments that need their overreach checked more than a lot of places in the U.S.
These protestors can force political institutions to be more politically correct but I bet the KKK or white supremacists have their numbers swelling right now. You can't force people to not be racist, and by enabling rioting I bet tons of people are feeling validated in their ugly racism by thinking "that's why I don't want those kind in my town."
Donald Thump is so easy to diss but I myself look at it like he is nobody to me personally. To see people so obsessed with him on both aisles just reminds me of a speech I remember in Sahaja Yoga where it's stated that being a left or right winger means you aren't looking at the middle path which is finding people who practice your spirituality so your community of peace and truth-seekers grows in strength. This is what L/L Research in a sense says with a lot of the Q'uo readings.
A left winger makes an individual powerless and the government authoritarian like Cuba/Russia/China, while a right winger enables individuals and their corporations to become more powerful than whole nations. I used to care so much about politics but I really don't anymore. Spirituality and government oftentimes just don't mix.
edit: I bet this point will be controversial but all I'm stating is that this was probably the worst time a group of people could choose to cause economic damage and joblessness during a pandemic allowing it to spread and evolve. There are a lot of unseen forces at work in any event of this magnitude but looking back I will wonder who in their right mind would actually think of this as the perfect timing? Oh yeah it's what everyone needed.
Let's remember, before they became a bunch of hypocritical cry-bullies who'd rather bash white kids for wearing "Indian" costumes on Halloween than actually support Native Americans against oil companies encroaching on their land... that the "left" was responsible for passing things like the clean air and water act, without which we'd be way more f***** than we are now environmentally and from a health standpoint.