“The first lie is that we bear no relation to one another; that society is purely individualistic—which negates any suggestion of the truth that we live in an interconnected system, and allows us to see the abuse and suffering and death of others as something that poses no threat to us. (1/4)
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skry (skry@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 08:52:12 JST skry - Bill repeated this.
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skry (skry@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 08:55:25 JST skry The second is that life must be earned, and profit is how you earn it—which means that some haven't earned it, and makes all abuse and suffering and death that a spiritually sick society produces the fault not of those who cause the abuse but those who suffer it. (2/4)
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skry (skry@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 08:55:25 JST skry The third lie is that violence redeems the crime of having not earned life—which means that when those who are deemed to have not earned life are abused or harmed or killed, the violence is not only something that doesn't threaten our safety, but represents safety itself.
And these lies seemed so intrinsic to people's beliefs as to be foundational. And indeed, these lies could be found in the very founding of our country. So I think of them as our founding lies. (3/4)
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skry (skry@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 08:55:25 JST skry This resulted in a new (to me) diagnosis of our old traditional spiritual sickness: A series of interconnected lies that insist that some people matter, and others don't matter, and that those who don't matter have not earned life, so it is good if they are killed; but even better if, before they are killed, they are used for the benefit of those who do matter.
I would name the spiritual sickness supremacy.”
- @JuliusGoathttps://www.readtpa.com/p/an-interview-with-author-ar-moxon (4/4)