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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: A Reading From My New Book "Woke: A Field Guide For Utopia Preppers"
Published: 2017-12-08
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-xI4ctIOPE
Title: A Reading From My New Book "Woke: A Field Guide For Utopia Preppers"
Published: 2017-12-08
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-xI4ctIOPE
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Well, my lovely thesis is my new book, Woke, a feel guide for Utopia Prepars. I'm going to read the opening poem. Welcome. This book is for the ones who look with both eyes. It's not for the right eye lookers who hide away from the pain of the world using comforting ideas and philosophical positions and spiritual concepts. Feeling back smuggling knowing better while earlier, screams, while men2/8
and suits with cannibal brains pave over the forest and coat everything in oil. The right eye lookers have killed off that part of themselves which feels, which cannot look away, which brings them trembling to their knees at the wet faced beauty of each instant and the wailing of the ocean angels and the tears of the indigenous. They definitely slip the punches that life throws at their3/8
head as it screams. Look at me, feel me, why do you even come here? They've traded the aliveness of their lives to avoid the intensity of living. This book is not for the right eye lookers. This book is for the ones who look with both eyes. It is not for the left eye lookers who behold the flying robots running fire upon children, who hear the cries4/8
of the mother clutching bloody shreds of nothing, who feel the dying gasps of the white deer drain rides and stand their transphixed by the horror of it all, until they can hardly see for all the tears. Their left eye lookers lean into each instant but the pains consume them, take them over, control them, become them. They build a temple to just fund and see and begin5/8
worshipping strange gods. Their world is gone grey and their angels are caged and they say it's no good going on. We are headed toward doom and so much the better for we are all made of poison. They do not avoid life and it's suffering with us. This book is not for the left eye lookers. This book is for the ones who look with both eyes. It6/8
is for the ones who see the bombs and the bastards and stand shaking with the breath of the beast on their skin. When you look with both eyes you feel it all but you don't flee or freeze. You fight. You swing your sword with both hands tears pouring from both eyes and when they try to drive you back you advance. This book is for the ones7/8
who see what is happening. How strong the beast is, how pervasive it's grasp, how merciless it's mission and say okay. Draw their sword for the weeping warriors, for the savage saints, for the bleeding mothers with fire in their eyes, for the hidden mystics whose prayers keep their spinning, for the Buddhas who use their teeth when their blades are broken and let their evolutionary ancestors hell through