"This is a GAME for them, but the stakes are high."
(emphasis mine)
You're a lawyer, Lisa, so you understand the implications of the above sentence. You are also well aware that most ordinary folks don't truly grasp the everyday horror of those "games."
Explain it to them.
It isn't a function of vocabulary. My own is encyclopedic, but it has availed me of naught over the decades during which I've attempted to describe the everyday praxis of managerial and bureaucratic "gamesmanship" to those who are not present when the players make their moves.
The old saw that a few deaths are a tragedy, a million a statistic, represents the barrier that must be overcome before ordinary folks will find the means to rein in the psychopaths that walk among us.
You're a professional, perhaps you will succeed where so many others have failed.
Activate, collaborate, find common ground among your neighbors and communities. Word of mouth, but show examples and let the facts do the talking as it's easy to get caught up in the details and overwhelm. Life is short and getting shorter and it's easy to lose faith and hope against the odds and power against us, but we outnumber them if we stop letting them divide us. Keep on keeping on, be true to ourselves, and we will overcome.
Most importantly when you pray ask for guidance and strength to persevere. I'd suggest seeing the Essential Church if you can still find it playing, or learn about the little old Scottish woman who provoked the spirit and created a movement the Scottish Covenant, Jenny Geddes who we could all take a few lessons from.
So much talk of not complying. So I got rid of my cellphone a year ago. (Life is MUCH better). (Landline only). But re the 'not' part....defining life in the negative is kind of ....negative. So again to return to the idea of living in the affirmative, which these days means does indeed saying NO alot! and knowing why...
Do. Not. Comply.
Ever
Down with fasco-Marxism
"This is a GAME for them, but the stakes are high."
(emphasis mine)
You're a lawyer, Lisa, so you understand the implications of the above sentence. You are also well aware that most ordinary folks don't truly grasp the everyday horror of those "games."
Explain it to them.
It isn't a function of vocabulary. My own is encyclopedic, but it has availed me of naught over the decades during which I've attempted to describe the everyday praxis of managerial and bureaucratic "gamesmanship" to those who are not present when the players make their moves.
The old saw that a few deaths are a tragedy, a million a statistic, represents the barrier that must be overcome before ordinary folks will find the means to rein in the psychopaths that walk among us.
You're a professional, perhaps you will succeed where so many others have failed.
Thank you for the essay and the encouragement.
Yes I do want to share my understanding and am motivated to do so.
Activate, collaborate, find common ground among your neighbors and communities. Word of mouth, but show examples and let the facts do the talking as it's easy to get caught up in the details and overwhelm. Life is short and getting shorter and it's easy to lose faith and hope against the odds and power against us, but we outnumber them if we stop letting them divide us. Keep on keeping on, be true to ourselves, and we will overcome.
Most importantly when you pray ask for guidance and strength to persevere. I'd suggest seeing the Essential Church if you can still find it playing, or learn about the little old Scottish woman who provoked the spirit and created a movement the Scottish Covenant, Jenny Geddes who we could all take a few lessons from.
So much talk of not complying. So I got rid of my cellphone a year ago. (Life is MUCH better). (Landline only). But re the 'not' part....defining life in the negative is kind of ....negative. So again to return to the idea of living in the affirmative, which these days means does indeed saying NO alot! and knowing why...
Yes. I'm at do. I'm so glad you are doing well. Was on the west coast and thought of you