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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: In This Disaster We Are All, Ultimately, Innocent
Published: 2022-09-11
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCj3OVZFTWY
Title: In This Disaster We Are All, Ultimately, Innocent
Published: 2022-09-11
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCj3OVZFTWY
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in this disaster we are all ultimately innocent whenever I talk about the way our species is sliding toward annihilation via nuclear Armageddon or environmental disaster I always get a few people saying something along the lines of good humans are horrible the plan it will be better off without us this attitude generally seems to be borne of frustration people learn about what's happening to our world and2/23
begin to see how easy it would be to change course if not for the greed and megalomania of our rulers as well as the obedience of the rank and file public candidates credulous acceptance of the propaganda that keeps them accepting status quo systems and they get frustrated frustrated with humanity that just won't come to its senses even with all the evidence right there to be seen3/23
that frustration often turns to discussed as people discover that not only do others fail to see what they see but they actively avoid looking at it even when you pointed out to them you can lay out the evidence for the corruption and sustainability of status quo politics in the %HESITATION the Seidel eco seitel depravity of oligarchic imperialism laid out right under their noses and now make4/23
up excuses to turn away one way of dealing with the psychological discomfort of the situation is to try and distance yourself emotionally from the plight of humanity and say fine screw it let humanity plunge into dystopia and Armageddon the sooner it happens the better we deserve it and I understand the sentiment but to me saying humanity deserves destructions sounds a lot like saying a drug addict5/23
deserves to overdose harrowing addict isn't fully in control of their actions if they were they would simply quit because they know from both public knowledge and first hand observation that it's a destructive habit addiction is described at least by anyone whose mind is worth a damn as not a personal choice but a disease just as would be the case with any other disease addiction is a6/23
condition over which they do not have control because it has taken over their operating system against their will in some way humanity as a whole is on much the same boat we have a condition which makes us behave in a self destructive way and on paper we could technically all just collectively change course even if a few oligarchs and empire managers tried to stop us but7/23
we don't because we're not in control those with a substance abuse problem use because they don't know how to feel okay without the substance and if they ever overcome their addiction they will eventually discover that this was because there were unconscious forces within them that made the experience of sober life intolerable forces like psychological tendencies born of trauma deprivation or dysfunction earlier in life tendencies which8/23
might manifest as experiences like depression anxiety or self loathing which can become too difficult to tolerate without their substance of preference human behavior likewise is driven by unconscious forces on the collective level but instead of early childhood trauma we're talking about our entire evolutionary history as well as the history of civilization it's a ridiculous situation if you think about it the story of life on this9/23
planet has been about organisms trying to avoid being eaten long enough to reproduce and our species stumbled out of that horrifying predicament with all the same fear responses and stress hormones and now all of a sudden you find yourself sitting in a cubicle with your heart racing as though you're running from a saber toothed tiger because you over here Janice from accounting gossiping about you he10/23
eat or be eaten dynamic came crashing headlong through the dawn of a new species with a rapidly evolved cerebral cortex and the sudden capacity for abstract thought and all that fear and stress kept marching forward from generation to generation and tangling itself with this added new element of thought language and storytelling this gave rise to societal constructs like religion government hierarchy and family power structures all11/23
largely born of the primitive fear based desire to control and dominate which we carried with us from our evolutionary ancestors who lived in trees to hide from predators parents who are traumatized by their parents passed their trauma on to their own children because their trauma made them behave in a traumatized way and those children passed their own trauma on to their own children as well on12/23
top of this small scale generational trauma we added things like wars slavery tyranny colonization and genocides which traumatised entire populations and that trauma would in turn be passed on from generation to generation as well and then we showed up we the people who are currently alive that's what we were born into that's the wave we rode in on and that wave is still going and we13/23
wonder why everyone so dysfunctional and self destructive we never really had a chance to build a healthy world our ancestors went from running away from monsters with sharp fangs to burning witches and heretics to fighting world wars to giving birth to us and that wave of fear and chaos carried forward right into our own psyches and into the psyches of everyone else on this planet without14/23
skipping a beat if you look at where we came from and how we got here it's amazing where even as functional as we are and that's what we're dealing with here the heritage of trauma stretching back into an unfathomably vast expanse of time incarnate eating in the current form of some eight billion homo sapiens if you zoom out and look at the big picture with this15/23
understanding it's difficult to find real guilt anywhere and anyone even in the most abusive and traumatizing among us certainly it is in our collective interest to immobilize anyone who's tendencies are dangerously destructive and certainly establishing culpability and accountability for misdeeds is going to be an important part of expanding human consciousness and creating a healthy world because we have to understand how and why things are going16/23
wrong before we can fix our problems but even the most destructive among us are simply carrying forward the heritage of trauma which has been reverberating from generation to generation from the deepest recesses of prehistoric life think about a mistake you've made in the past a real bad one one that makes you cringe whenever you think about it you wouldn't make that same mistake again in the17/23
same way would you of course not because you now know things you didn't know back then you are conscious now if things you previously were not depending on how conscious you are now in relation to how conscious you were back then you might repeat similar mistakes in similar ways but you wouldn't intentionally repeat the exact same error if you had a do over and that small18/23
way your consciousness has expanded that's all negative human behavior ultimately is mistakes that were made due to a lack of consciousness a lack of empathy a lack of serenity a lack of information a lack of insight a lack of knowledge that there are better choices a lack of perception on what's really going on in the world a lack of clarity on the way propaganda manipulates us19/23
into serving the interests of the powerful these are all just different kinds of unconsciousness different ways that one can fail to accurately perceive reality in this turning chaotic tidal wave of evolutionary trauma that we were all born into the only thing we really have any amount of real control over is whether we mindlessly repeat our conditioning patterns or start bringing consciousness to them but even that20/23
is greatly limited by how much consciousness we have access to at the time many people are just barely treading water psychologically and don't often have the space to pause and bring clarity to their own inner process sees a lot of people are just stumbling blindly along and it's not alternately their fault anymore than the blindness of an actual blind person so we're all innocent in the21/23
end again we must of course push to bring consciousness to the parts of humanity that have taken a wrong turn to the war criminals and plutocrats and managers of empire and all other abusers and the abuse of systems which elevate them but underneath that fears burst of light there can also be a deep compassion and understanding born of a lucid seeing of how we got here22/23
in the first place we're all ultimately doing the best we can while riding the momentum of a chain of events far beyond our control which stretches backward through time all the way back to the Big Bang everyone is playing with a lousy hand which was dealt to them by the turning time alt of evolution and history while grappling with the puzzle of mortality on a tiny