29-01-2010, 09:14 PM
[quote=Bruce Clemens][QUOTE]
"I just can't allow myself to go there." ....
You can take some people to the precipice and they just can't look in.
I don't know what it takes to lead someone to their own realization and acceptance that everything they think about their world is upside down. It is a stage by stage process exactly like the five stages of grief. Your whole world paradigm has to die and a new one established.
Again my point about establishing resistance movements in populations who are already firmly repressed- that paradigm switch has already taken place and they are ready to do something.
In our case, I think the most sensible thing would be to strategize with people whose paradigm is already where it needs to be (like we are starting to do here) and try to establish an infrastructure within which to employ tactical moves when "mainstream" people's paradigms are forced to change. [/QUOTE]
Thanks for your many responses and contributions, significant enough that I can't begin to respond in much detail but rich enough so as to provide fuel and fodder for my further outreach and work. I especially like the idea of "technically-illustrated" comic books combined with the idea of plays, scripts, mock trials (or Congressional hearings?) and the like. (There is such a person, a cartoonist, who has collaborated with Jensen.)
Perhaps one of the things we ought to do is, individually or collectively, to post links and invitations to readers and consider inviting, as contributing members to DPF and this discussion, key people from other groups, movements, research, etc.
"I just can't allow myself to go there." ....
You can take some people to the precipice and they just can't look in.
I don't know what it takes to lead someone to their own realization and acceptance that everything they think about their world is upside down. It is a stage by stage process exactly like the five stages of grief. Your whole world paradigm has to die and a new one established.
Again my point about establishing resistance movements in populations who are already firmly repressed- that paradigm switch has already taken place and they are ready to do something.
In our case, I think the most sensible thing would be to strategize with people whose paradigm is already where it needs to be (like we are starting to do here) and try to establish an infrastructure within which to employ tactical moves when "mainstream" people's paradigms are forced to change. [/QUOTE]
Thanks for your many responses and contributions, significant enough that I can't begin to respond in much detail but rich enough so as to provide fuel and fodder for my further outreach and work. I especially like the idea of "technically-illustrated" comic books combined with the idea of plays, scripts, mock trials (or Congressional hearings?) and the like. (There is such a person, a cartoonist, who has collaborated with Jensen.)
Perhaps one of the things we ought to do is, individually or collectively, to post links and invitations to readers and consider inviting, as contributing members to DPF and this discussion, key people from other groups, movements, research, etc.
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"