This is the latest, heavy statement from the brilliant video blogger, “Asha Logos.” HIGHLY recommended… poetically beautiful and incisive… he uses the term, ‘sheepening’ …
ASHA's description:
As the foundational edifice our forefathers built degrades and collapses all around us, it’s never been more important to both learn to discern the dark from the light, and to *find your tribe*... to reject this powerless and passive victim mentality, as if we have no options or agency, and find ways to help create or support parallel structure — parallel culture (art, music, entertainment, literature, philosophy and ideology), parallel groups and clubs, institutions and businesses and communities... ultimately, parallel ways of living.
Of course all such efforts start small — this is a given. Yet, if what results becomes attractive and compelling, if we’re able to gradually create alternatives that are obviously superior to the corruption and decay we’re seeing and experiencing all around us, others will eventually flock to these solutions, and enthusiastically lend a hand to this creation process.
I’m of the belief (and I think I’m far from alone here) that the corruption has burrowed so deeply, and become so all-pervasive, that using our time and energy to win conventional political battles or fight the most trendy and superficial culture wars is a mistake, and a waste. When you wake to the reality that much of all we see around us is now pure theater, and essentially ‘rigged’, designed to distract, disorient, and dissipate vital energies, the solution isn’t to continue to play theatrical games... at some point we need to be willing to step off of this stage, leave this artifice and deception behind, and seek to create something real in its stead.
Not merely as an ‘escape’, but as a means to help create and cultivate healthier people, to better fight (and more clearly understand) the inevitable battles ahead. I’d suggest we’re being subtly poisoned in a multitude of ways we don’t yet fully recognize... and that this poison is causing us to increasingly lead desperate and broken half-lives. We’ve allowed sick men to become our storytellers and narrative creators and authors of prevailing culture... and as inevitable result, we’ve grown sick. Yet, none of this is irreversible.
Find those you most resonate with, form genuine bonds, and work together to create the new... create pockets of health that might be networked and allied to create something significant.
None of this is impossible... and the process has now already begun, in earnest — seek to play a part.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxsb13hTgDI (34:40)
“Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems.
Throw away the solutions and you get the problems back.” — Donald Kingsbury
“It’s so much worse than a profit motive. If only all this were driven by mere greed and nothing more. No, there’s a legitimately dark force in our world — more visible now than ever. We can discern its limbs and branches everywhere we look.”
“I’m consistently drawn to the analogy of popular culture now being compared to a poisonous IV drip hooked directly into the vein of both the individual and the national body.”
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“When we get ready to take the United States we will not take you under the label of Communism, we will not take you under the label of Socialism. These labels are unpleasant to the American people and have been “speared” too much. We will take the United States under the labels have made very lovable! We will take it under”Liberalism,” under “Progressivism,” under “Democracy.” But take it we will!”
— Jewish activist and publisher, Alexander Trachtenberg (1884-1966) at the National Convention of Communist Parties, Madison Square Garden, 1944
