When my children were kids I’d tell them that there was a three fold responsibility for their success: their parents, their community and themselves. When we grow up, I think there is still that breakdown of who is responsible for the individual. But what is that breakdown? When we grow up it reverses to be: the individual, family and friends, the community and the larger society. Or for some it’s individual, family/friends/community then the larger society.
For an individual, family/friends, community and larger society that would equate to the individuals place within the family, etc. and the power and influence of that person in all these places and the power these realms have over or upon the individual. What is going on? This is: in these realms of influence in your life is exerted certain support or controls. The influence or power goes from the individual and from all the different spheres. It’s supposed to be two way and equal but imbalances in power exist because of evolutionary deficits and disease factors. Any ism will create an imbalance of power or responsibility. Ideally, the individual is supported by family and friends, community and larger society and the individual can contribute to their system with their positive agency. But with the contamination of isms, the system may take more from the individual and stunt the individual, or certain individual(s) might contaminate the system with a virulent psychopathy. The psychopathy and stunting could create or devolve into a negative feedback loop that confuse generations of potentially healthy individuals or damage positive/healthy systems functions or possibilities.
For some people, those that are minorities, the system that should work for them is the individual, family/friends/community, then the larger society. Since integration and the free and open society is being persistently sabotaged by the larger society, what becomes more important is for the individual and the family/friends/community to become closer and more unified and supportive and contributing of each other. Also, active appreciation and practice of one’s culture or it’s revival would be healthier and more evolutionary for the sanity of the cultural system. Being in synch with nature, supporting and studying nature, reviving and healing nature and allowing nature to heal oneself is also an optimal supportive practice and condition. Nature is actually the larger system. The larger society can be a society willing or unwilling to interact positively with world cultures and nature. The larger society can be healthy or not. The relationship between these different actors is of importance. They can be healthy and embrace change and evolution. Or they can constrict and sink into depravity.
Being balkanized or in a siege state by an adversarial larger society can be corrosive. People who find themselves in barrios, slums or ghettoes can be reactively desperate and alienated from each other. Ghettos can be neighborhoods, nations or whole continents. There was a song called “The World is a Ghetto”. And the world is indeed becoming a ghetto for all who are not the 1%. An individual can feel isolated, lied against, trapped in their own skin and marked for suffering and death. How ‘minorities’ react or respond to their imposed condition plus their persistence determines their outcomes. During American segregation many black communities were bustling and prosperous until they were burned down by the larger community or declared areas for urban renewal and bulldozed. Farmers were lynched in one fashion or another (by kkk, lack of bank or government loans or bad faith seed companies). Individuals were also robbed of their just due wages, fees, compensation or reparations. I can only guess that the goal of the larger society is to commit slow genocide against “others”not knowing that that is the goal of the 1% for them.
In human nature, the most important bonds for an infant are it’s parents and nature. Mother Nature in the 21st century is in the bull’s eye of the larger society. Brazil’s newly elected government’s goal is to finish off the Amazon, the indigenous people and Quilombos. This will make way for more beef and gmo agribusiness. Certain of the larger society have deemed nature and diversity unnecessary. But in nature, diversity is necessary for the survival and evolution of the human species and every species.
A person born in this world finds themselves surrounded or not surrounded by family/friends, community and/then the larger society and either find themselves supported, besieged or predated upon by their own community and/then the larger society. The natural environment and resources are shrinking and many find themselves isolated from their right to connection to the natural world and to other individuals (humanity). Most people naturally want love and health. Yet some people actually don’t want it for themselves or anyone else. These are psychopaths. They are a danger to themselves and others. They want to remake the world into their own hoarded paradise or wreak it to reflect their inner soulless world. These diseased individuals use, control, exploit, degrade, destroy and discard. In all that they do they cultivate an anti-culture of psychopathy, sociopathy and other forms of dysfunction, unnaturalness and brokenness. They lie with words and silence to compromise reality for their own gain and security.
When you are in a kidnapping never let them move you from where the attack is taking place. Always take a stand and fight to defend all that you are and live for. We are the last generation that can correct global climate change. If we let certain folk kidnap our future then there won’t be one. The fight is to engage in the struggle for social justice, human rights and saving nature. I’ve just learned that scientist are currently saying that the earth can only sustain us as we are for 12/twelve more years. This narcissistic way of living can’t go on. The ecosystem will collapse. Are you going to allow a psychopath to take you from the only life we’ve ever known without a fight???
