https://www.the-reframe.com/are-you-brave-enough-for-nonviolence/
"Let’s keep it going. This year I’ve been talking about what to do with a cult
of abuse that has metastasized into a culture of abuse, by capturing the
institutional levers of power and culture. My answer has been that the answer
is to create a culture of healing.
And I want to be careful (as I usually try to be but as I was not in last
week’s essay) to stress that, while we will observe its effects in individuals,
what we’re dealing with here is a cultural sickness that has a deep moral
aspect. I stress this because it’s always dangerous to speak of healing and
sickness when we are thinking in moral terms, because—as a function of our
cultural moral unwellness—we tend to treat physical sickness and disability as
moral failings, which they are not, and physical wellness as a result of good
moral choices, which it is not. Additionally, there is a risk that, in speaking
of moral unwellness in terms of sickness and healing, we will pathologize the
moral choices people make—choosing to engage in or support the abuse of others
in order to satisfy a twisted desire to secure advantages of wealth and
identity—and in so doing, we can participate in the exact kind of cost-free
exoneration such people seek and demand.
Still, at the same time, when I look at the traditional spirit of supremacy
that has gripped my country, I admit I can't see anything but a deep sickness.
And I cannot help but yearn for healing, and wonder how healing might be
effected.
My answer right now is
not the way we’ve been going about it, that’s for
sure. This is an answer that contemplates negatives space rather than positive
space, perhaps, but it’s a starting point all the same."
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
