Love in the time of virtue signalling
For the love & need of your own sanity - call it what it is
We’re getting to the point where we need all minds on deck. All consciousness directed towards life affirming thoughts and actions.
We need to be receptive to seeking Truth in a world full of illusory scripts and characters. But it’s hard to do that when we’re pissed off about how we were treated - or are continuing to be treated - by family, friends or controllers, for naming what they don’t want named.
Getting riled up about people who refuse to see beyond how they are told to see distracts from being able to focus on expanding consciousness.
We need to understand how our anger is holding us back - and process it.
So let’s get into it. Let’s get some objectivity - some understanding of how we feel beyond the “that person’s an asshole!” label. Together.
It’s hard to be objective and deduce potential realities when you’re wrapped up in storylines about why someone is saying shitty stuff online.
Heads up: They aren’t doing it to you; they are doing it to preserve something within themselves.
More on that in a bit. But simply because you’re human, letting go of anger when a relative is still defending a procedure that doesn’t work, and STILL supporting the dehumanization of people who knew it from the get go, is difficult.
There is no value judgement being applied to anyone whose having a difficult time letting go. Or the people who say they have let it go, but still keep experiencing bouts of anger they can’t seem to control (it’s cuz you haven’t let it go yet.)
Often, people believe they have let things go when in reality they are just really good at stuffing things down.
Letting go is an holistic process. . What we experience takes up space in the body. “The body keeps the score” as they say (check out the book of that title).
Intellectualizing it alone is not going to cut it. That said, creating an argument for why it would make sense to let it go is part and parcel to the letting go process.
You have to have some degree of understanding of why it’s a good idea to no longer cling to a storyline that is harming you, in order to release it.
So let’s do that together. So we can let down our defensiveness when we witness the continued clinging to failed ideals in the online commentary of friends, family and strangers alike.
And let’s learn something, through the process of contemplating what could be going on below the surface of their actions and choices - beyond the easy route of labeling them alas, “Can you believe what these fucking jerks are saying?!”
Here’s a situation from my social feed. Maybe it will be a familiar situation to you. Maybe not. If anything, it’s an interesting look into the divisive nature of the current human collective experience playing out between family and friends.
Also: it’s time to push back.
There’s been a lot of abuse going on by sleepy eyed enablers of divisive agendas. When the algorithm supports virtue signalling aligned with corporate approved messaging, you’re going to get more attention than if you ask questions. Straight up.
It’s funny how popular one can seem/feel when their account isn’t shadow banned, but actually REWARDED for not questioning anything and denying their own egoic desires to be seen as special, important - of value. At any cost.
Check yer egos on this! Everyone! We are all human (maybe?) and we all contend with this very human nature to be led into the shadows by an out of control ego born of not being valued in society. It’ll give you the shivers.
Here’s the post:
The person naming iferschmektim is referencing an alternative to invasive medical procedures which haven’t lived up to the hype. He is a self employed jack of all trades type. Worked outside the scope of the system most of his life.
The person arguing against iferschmektim use is an ICU nurse. He is the sole financial provider for 4 children and a wife. He makes a good hourly wage, but could likely still be considered low income based on expenses.
He is extremely committed to his job. Not only did this work get him out of poverty, but he likes to help people. It feels good. He is viewed in high regard within the family structure because of what he learnt from the medical system.
People come to him for health advice. Someone is having a health issue in the family? They go to him. Convenient for them, and it makes him feel important & special. validated.
Much of his education was paid for by the system and he was even paid by the system to train further and become an ICU nurse. Paid a full wage to go to school - wow, right? He could have a lot of loyalty to a system that helped him to such a degree.
Following the protocols the system taught him provided many opportunities. He was placed in positions of power within the work place. He has been promoted many times throughout his career. He was able to use this money from said promotions to relieve his family of financial constraints.
Following the rules has worked well for him, both economically and emotionally.
So…what happens if he questions the systems?
He could risk losing all sense of financial stability. Poverty is traumatic - not having enough to eat is traumatic. Coming from poverty as he does, this could be a very concerning situation for him.
His family unit could be uprooted. Not great for someone who just signed a new mortgage. If he questioned anything he was being asked to do, it could affect his capacity to receive future recommendations and promotions, raises.
He may not be able to provide for all of the humans he feels responsible for, or continue to amass more and more of the stuff and things he likes to buy (he is a collector/hoarder - a sign of a human being who feels vulnerable - always seeking fulfilment).
Even more impactful than the shift of his income potential is that He could risk feeling invalidated and emasculated if his role as a caregiver and financial provider for his family were affected.
His belief in his validity as a man, his sense of manliness and importance which is tied to his career success, could be shattered.
He may no longer be the guy everyone goes to - the dude that everyone sees as smart and in the know. In fact, as we have seen first hand over the last 2 years, he could be ridiculed & ostracized by the very industry he has been a part of for so long.
So this nurse has a lot invested in the work he does. Every aspect of who he is is dependent on continuing to follow the protocols set by the system in which he is ensconced and which has rewarded him for being obedient - for not questioning it.
His sense of self could be fractured if he veered from the narrative that feeds him.
So questioning the system may appear too difficult to him. He’s unwilling to do it.
But it’s not as hard for the self employed man suggesting ifershmektim.
Sure, he’s been ostracized by friends and family. But he doesn’t have ties to any corporations or systems. He has been able to live beyond the degree of structure and systemic control the nurse has lived. The medical establishment doesn’t pay him to agree with it, so he does not feel a loyalty to any protocols or regimes it espouses - he is more comfortable questioning it, particularly when there are reasons to do so.
As a surgeon acquaintance told me last fall, doctors and nurses who think critically don’t get promoted - the ones who are agreeable get them.
You are not likely to see nurses in positions of power who think critically. Rather, you will find ones that say yes to what they are asked to do.
Following the protocols set forth by the institution will always come first because that secures their identity, their finances, and their sense of who they are as human beings.
The roles and actions that secure their egoic desire for power will always prevail.
If your identity, familial structure, bank account and self esteem are entrenched in and dependent on the system, you will be prone to asserting what the system tells you to assert.
Not everyone will. But some are easily swayed and they will fight tooth and nail to maintain the propaganda they have been trained to protect.
Even if that entails demonizing an affordable pharmaceutical used in many countries with much success, wailing like a lunatic about their fellow humans being at fault for the underfunded hospitals in which they work, and glorifying a blood clotting invasive experiment with 9 pages of single paged side effects. Oh - and shaming anyone who questions their actions.
Now - I think we can all agree we are experiencing difficult times. But what makes it more difficult is not allowing ourselves to speak or name the issues we are witnessing.
Why don’t we speak? Well, for one, you’ll get shadow banned like a bad ass bitch. Two, you don’t want to create ripples in the family or friendship circles by naming it.
But it’s time. We need to name the fuckery for our own well being. If we can’t name it, we can’t work through it.
And we need to name it because these distortions and glorifications by humans heavily enmeshed in this burning house of a health care system have had enough time in the spotlight.
Time to call a spade a spade.
Now that I’ve done that, I hope you’ll do it for yourself in some way. Just really hone in on the truth of the experience.
Write it out. Talk to a friend who gets it. Whatever you gotta do to ditch the idea - the storyline that says you are bad or wrong for not agreeing with people and protocols that have been corrupted.
Set the intention to release yourself from the confines of this distorted storyline family, friends & strangers have flung at you.
WIPE IT OFF.
It’s not yours to carry anymore. You’ve got more important shit to do.