The First Step In Creating A New World Is Letting Go Of Blaming Yourself

Hi friends! I have the third part in my series for you today 🙂

Please check out Part One here.

Part Two here.

Today we're diving into solutions.

How we move out of this system of exploitation that's not serving us, and how we can all participate in creating a new system that will.

Let me know what you think when you've had a chance to read.

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We've All Been Brainwashed Into Supporting A System That Harms:

Most of us have no idea that we’ve been brainwashed into supporting a system that is inherently against our own best interests.

It’s a system that exploits and marginalized communities, that CREATES marginalized communities TO exploit, and then to use as scapegoats to blame society's problems on when people start to ask questions of those in power.

Blaming marginalized communities as epicenters of crime, poverty and ‘laziness’ is pure gaslighting, because MOST of the people in those portions of society literally had no other option.

They had no upward mobility, no access, deliberate obstacles set in their path and thus couldn’t do anything else - and then they are pointed at as the problem. They are ALSO used as tools to get middle class people to continue to buy into the work hard/support celebrities/C.E.O’s as they are used as tools to generate fear - if you don’t keep playing the system you could end up like them. If you don’t keep supporting the power structures you will be ATTACKED by them. Those people want your shit. They want to hurt you. They want to take over your clean communities. The division created by the power structures is again fully set up so that we fight against each other while holding up the systems that destroy us. This is pure fiction. The people at the bottom of society, generally speaking, want nothing more than to have a good life. They are not your enemy and they are not coming for your shit. They are trying to survive. Just like you would if you were in their shoes. The people at the top are creating the scarcity and the crime. It’s the system, not the people.

There ARE enough resources at this point, we have developed adequate awareness, systems and technologies, to support most of the population in getting their basic needs met - but this would require us letting go of the fantasy of being rich, powerful and famous. It would require that we let go of the idea that THINGS make us HAPPY. That things BEYOND what is required for us to have our basic needs met so we can then LIVE, explore, create, have fun, relate doesn’t actually fulfill us.

We have to break out of the brainwashing that work is a virtue. That production and consumption MEAN something about US as HUMANS. We have to walk away from the idea that things are valuable and human life has to earn them, and move towards understanding that LIFE is valuable and goods and services - and the systems that produce those goods and services - need to be SUPPORTIVE of LIFE.

We need to break out of the ‘us against them’ narrative and realize that together, as a community, we go far. Individualism is real in the sense that we all have something unique to offer. We’re not here to be the SAME - but we need COMMUNITY. Each of us being valued for what we ARE, finding our PLACE, and all being given access to basic necessities. This won’t discourage work or demobilize progress - in fact, when people are supported, the WHOLE COMMUNITY benefits.How many people have we LOST - how much potential for creation, exploration, expansion and creativity has been wasted because people have to work so hard to live? Because they don’t have what they need? Because they’ve been traumatized by a system that depends on them being exploited? How much have WE LOST as we lost people to this backwards system?

A lot.

We Must Recognize First What Has VALUE - Then We Can Build A System Around That:

Change is going to come when we recognize that life is what’s valuable, and the systems have to be built on supporting that - flipping the script from the idea that the system is what’s valuable and life has to mold itself to fit the system.

We have to turn the WHOLE SYSTEM on its head.

We aren’t going to boycott companies into a cleaner environment. We aren’t going to find the right celebrities who donate the right money to the right charities that rescue us from poverty. We aren’t going to have that innovative C.E.O who comes up with the genius idea that revolutionizes our culture. 

Capitalism left unfettered, profit for the sake of profit - the foundations upon which our current economy has been built - means that we will ALWAYS have the deeply poor, people who are needing to be intentionally held back from access to basic necessities, education and upward mobility. 

Unfettered capitalism that prioritizes profit over people - the very foundations upon which our entire monetary systems are built, exploitation of the many for the wealth of the few, 'progress' without mind for the EFFECTS of that progress and consumptions being marketed as a form of empowerment/social activism/community/identity - humans having lost touch with humanity and what's of actual value. This is where this led.

Until we start to understand that life is what's valuable, until we unravel ourselves from the idea that wealth is an end of itself rather than a means to an end, until we can see that letting corporations who are led by people who are upholding systems of degradation, we will continue to destroy ourselves and our home.

I wonder sometimes if we are so traumatized and brainwashed by this system that we are too late in ever seeing how much work needs to be done to change things to something that would actually work.

You can’t tweak a system that’s got rotten foundations and expect for those tweaks to solve the problem.We need to see what our enough is. We need to remember community. We need to remember that life is about more than what makes money. We need to remember work is a means to an end, not a virtue. We need to remember that the body is a sacred space that allows us to have experience. We need to remember that in community we go far. We need to remember that our individuality shouldn’t come at the cost of our connection. We need to remember that we aren’t broken for responding to a messed up system with pain. We need to remember that until we’re all free none of us are.

 

How do we do this? What are the practical take aways from this whole thing?

 

1. Start to recognize the programs for what they are. Start to see the messages. Start to see the division, the fear mongering, the ways you’ve been taught to look at those with less. Start to see the messages that tell YOU that YOU are broken, that your health/mental health/relationship/work issues are all YOUR fault. Start to see it. Look for it. Become aware.
2. Start to do the work of deprogramming. This is hard but it’s possible. We start by slowly learning to reconnect with our bodies, our emotions, our feelings - and rather than blaming ourselves or running, trying to fix or change - we listen. We start to have curiosity and compassion. We start to let ourselves question the system rather than constantly second guessing ourselves. We start to slowly move towards opening to the idea that we have value outside of what we consume and produce. We do the gentle, slow, compassion filled work of figuring out where we’ve been programmed to reject ourselves, be in competition, move from stress and panic - so that we can start to check out of what we are CAPABLE of checking out of. One moment at a time. Not expecting ourselves to make massive changes. Not expect to ‘fix’ society. Not expecting to have it all figured out. Giving ourselves time and space to be held in our trauma, to be seen, to process - where we are able. Slowly. Making room. Adjusting. Checking out. Stepping out. Slowing down. Finding our enough. Resisting the urge to push past that.
3. We will start to use what we have until it’s not useful anymore. Start to reduce our consumption. Start to spend more time (where we can) not producing or consuming. We will spend time exploring interests and passions without a mind for how to monetize them. We will work towards being more community minded. Finding people to support and be supported by. Relying less and less on individual will and the system. We will start to slowly turn away from entertainment that doesn’t fill us.
4. We will become more politically active where we can. Lobbying for companies to be held to account. Demanding better from those that create our power, food and transportation. We will use our dollars and our voice - and a bit part is simply again in consuming LESS. Giving less power to these people where we can.
5. We will have lots of compassion for ourselves and others. Realizing none of us created this system. None of us are evil. None of us are to blame. We will slowly start to see ALL people as our brothers and sisters, so we can start to work towards a world that’s more equitable. We will start to see the differences in all of us, and rather that fighting against those differences/fearing those differences - we will lean in. We will find our special way/ways of supporting those close to us. The communities we can support. The movements we are passionate about. We won’t worry about tackling ALL of it - just what calls to us. Where we have some impact. Some influence. Where we can help. Where we can support. Where we can change.

Slow and steady. Starting with our own minds, and our own patterns.

I’d love to hear what you think. I know this is a lot - but we need to re-prioritize if we’re going to survive ourselves.

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