Bryan Willey

Gestionnaire de Produit à SNC la décroissance conviviale.

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[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Fifteen Useful Facts

1. It’s easier to understand what’s going on in the world when you mentally “mute” people’s narratives about what’s going on and just look at the material movements of wealth, resources, weapons, and people. That’s how you separate what’s real from the manipulations and empty narrative fluff, how you see who’s doing the taking and hoarding, and how you figure out who the real aggressors are in international conflicts.

2. The three most overlooked and under-appreciated aspects of the human experience are consciousness, the extent to which conditioned thought patterns dictate our lives, and the influence of propaganda.

3. We live in a civilization that’s so pervasively steeped in lies and manipulations that the only way to have a truth-based relationship with reality is to drop all your assumptions and premises about what’s true and begin examining everything from the very beginning with fresh eyes.

4. The phenomenon known as spiritual enlightenment is a real thing which we are all capable of realizing, and the fact that this potential exists within our species has many far-reaching implications for what we are capable of attaining as a civilization.

5. Everything is beautiful. Not seeing the beauty in something is always the failure of the perceiver, not the thing being perceived.

6. Happiness is the natural default position of human consciousness. It’s only through egoic delusions that we trick ourselves into unhappiness.

7. There are strange untapped potentials within our species which our philosophies don’t touch on, our religions don’t anticipate, our academia doesn’t acknowledge, and our common worldviews don’t account for.

8. Reality is nondual. There’s no real separation between the perceiver and that which is perceived, or between any of the objects in sense perception. All is indivisible.

9. The self is an illusion held together by believed mental narratives and fear-based energetic fixations. This illusion can be seen through and transcended.

10. It’s possible for two people to keep falling more and more deeply in love with each other for their entire lives, as long as they’re both intensely curious about each other and both keep growing and discovering new parts of themselves to love.

11. The feeling of guilt is useless and can safely be dropped entirely. The only people who might benefit from feeling some guilt are the sociopaths and psychopaths among us who never experience it anyway. For those among us with healthy empathy centers, guilt is unnecessary to motivate good behavior and often becomes a tool that manipulators use to control us.

12. Antisocial personality disorder, more commonly known as sociopathy and psychopathy, is one of the greatest obstacles to human thriving. That there really are creatures among us who don’t think or feel like the rest of us do and frequently use their lack of empathy to climb the ladders of wealth and power sounds made up (and even sounds like the basis of many racist belief systems), but it is a fact. Not until our species becomes so emotionally intelligent and awake that sociopaths and psychopaths are unable to thrive in it or go unseen will this problem disappear.

13. You can recognize sociopaths, psychopaths, and other narcissists in your life by paying attention to how much energy they pour into convincing you to believe stories about others, about themselves, and especially about you. Someone who often spends energy trying to get you to believe negative things about yourself is someone you should get out of your life as quickly as possible.

14. There really is a struggle in our world between light and darkness, though it doesn’t look how the movies tell us to expect it. Those in power seek to keep their dark deeds hidden in darkness by maintaining government secrecy, propaganda and censorship. The manipulators in our own lives seek to keep their manipulations and misdeeds hidden in the same way. Even within our own personal psychology there are dysfunctional structures which seek to remain hidden in the unconscious. Humanity’s struggle is to bring that all into the light.

15. A sincere devotion to knowing the truth is the path toward happiness, health and harmony, for humans as individuals and for humanity as a collective. Knowing what’s true about ourselves uncovers our inner dysfunctionality and leads to healing and enlightenment. Knowing what’s true about our world leads to an understanding of the abusive nature of our power structures and societal systems. Continually striving toward the light of truth will bring us all home.

[Bryan Willey @BryanWilley]

@rumon @timarney @aaronsnow @CDS_GC We are in transition right now, if you can reach out with intake process over at https://t.co/6KgY9bcSo7 I would be happy to set up a chat with the right people and show how we set it and use it as a headless CMS. 🙂

[Jared Yates Sexton @JYSexton]

I don’t know. Maybe part of the problem is that this is a nation built on white supremacist violence where a huge portion of the population is kept terrified by racist conspiracy theories that guarantee political power and massive profits and perpetuate firearm culture.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Anyway, if anyone wants to know what those anti-trans activists who spends their lives angrily obsessed over the existence of a tiny minority are like in real life, here you go

[Caryma Sa'd - Lawyer + Political Satirist @CarymaRules]

The official press release from @HamiltonPolice is inaccurate & misleading. Their version of events does not match my time-stamped videos. It is a fabrication.

I wasn’t part of a protest. I never blocked a roadway. I didn’t refuse to move.

Who wrote this, and why did they lie?

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

One of the main purposes of student debt is to make sure that the mediocre kids of rich people get a leg up on working class people who are smarter and work harder than they do

What is Josh supposed to do if we cancel all student debt?

[💜Robyn❤️‍🔥 @robbelcakes]

Tele-care: "go to ER"
Pharmacist: limited treatment options and availability, $$
Family doctor:2-3 weeks wait minimum
After hours clinic:appts filled before it opens
Virtual care: $$, lack of tech literacy in an ageing population
ED: some peoples only point of access to care

[Amanda Taub @amandataub]

So if I'm clear on their timeline here, when it was not legal for him to buy guns, he didn't get them. And then when it was, he bought some and attacked an elementary school.
Too bad this doesn't offer any kind of hint as to what kind of policy solutions might make a difference.

[BrianMier @BrianMteleSUR]

2 Bolsonaro govt. Federal Highway Patrol officers pulled Genival de Jesus Santos, a 38 year old Afro-Brazilian man with mental illness, out of a routine traffic stop yesterday, threw him in their trunk and killed him with poison gas, in front of stunned onlookers.

[Matt Novak @paleofuture]

This video make so much more sense now. The cops literally stopped parents from helping their kids.

[Jared Yates Sexton @JYSexton]

In this future, public school kids will be subjected to round-the-clock shooting drills and a security state that is both ineffective and traumatizing.

Meanwhile, wealthy kids will go to school to learn how to manage and profit from that security state.

[patrick "inverted vibe curve" blanchfield @PatBlanchfield]

on a personal level you won't go wrong viewing police as the biggest gang around, one with effective impunity to kill you at any moment. on a social level, you won't go wrong seeing all our copaganda and blue lives fetishism as both reinforcing and disavowing this obvious fact

[patrick "inverted vibe curve" blanchfield @PatBlanchfield]

US police are trained to maximize control over situations while minimizing their personal risk. that translates into beating parents while a rampage shooter executes their children just as easily as it does their rolling up on a kid with a toy guy and executing him seconds later

[Bryan Willey @BryanWilley]

In America they are looking to have to state murder people for having ineffective state appointed legal counsel.

https://t.co/PcT1H7OmhY

[Black Visions @BlackVisionsMN]

Two years ago today, George Floyd was murdered by the very people who were sworn to protect him. Being Black in America shouldn’t be a death sentence, but whether we’re at the corner store, taking a run, or sitting in our local church, white supremacy sees us as dispensable.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

One person becoming a billionaire for every one million people sinking into poverty. That’s capitalism for ya.