What it's about
It's been a long time since I wrote regularly in LJ.
There was a time I posted frequently. And not just here ... I've usually had at least 3 blogs on the go.
All that's over.
Anatomy of Human Destructiveness by Erich Fromm ... Politics of Experience, by R. D. Laing ... M. Scott Peck's People of the Lie ... and finally Erich Neumann's Depth Psychology and a New Ethic ... years and years and years I've been working through those books, and more.
Bottom line?
Sloth ... the reluctance to do the good ... that's the bottom line.
Maybe folk are just scared. Or maybe it's more that they're cowards, ducking hard questions so they can get what they want.
Maybe folk are just, well, mediocre. Or maybe it's more that they cut corners for fun, or from laziness. "Incompetence is the thin edge of the wedge called corruption."
I've been an activist for over three decades. I understood right from the start that it wasn't about combating a gang of evil-doers ... that it was about actualizing democracy and the rule of law in the name of social justice.
But folk are lazy, and self-serving, and dishonest. "Just folk" enable the psychopaths and the oligarchs.
All those books? They taught me that there's reason for hope. And even today they remind me that there's still and always reason for hope.
But folk ... they bum me out.
Decades of work ... weekly, daily, hourly.
I'm just out of steam, is all.
So when I look at the reality I get grossed out.
Nobody can work with that.
So ... I didn't just fade away.
I burned out.
*shrug*
There was a time I posted frequently. And not just here ... I've usually had at least 3 blogs on the go.
All that's over.
Anatomy of Human Destructiveness by Erich Fromm ... Politics of Experience, by R. D. Laing ... M. Scott Peck's People of the Lie ... and finally Erich Neumann's Depth Psychology and a New Ethic ... years and years and years I've been working through those books, and more.
Bottom line?
Sloth ... the reluctance to do the good ... that's the bottom line.
Maybe folk are just scared. Or maybe it's more that they're cowards, ducking hard questions so they can get what they want.
Maybe folk are just, well, mediocre. Or maybe it's more that they cut corners for fun, or from laziness. "Incompetence is the thin edge of the wedge called corruption."
I've been an activist for over three decades. I understood right from the start that it wasn't about combating a gang of evil-doers ... that it was about actualizing democracy and the rule of law in the name of social justice.
But folk are lazy, and self-serving, and dishonest. "Just folk" enable the psychopaths and the oligarchs.
All those books? They taught me that there's reason for hope. And even today they remind me that there's still and always reason for hope.
But folk ... they bum me out.
Decades of work ... weekly, daily, hourly.
I'm just out of steam, is all.
So when I look at the reality I get grossed out.
Nobody can work with that.
So ... I didn't just fade away.
I burned out.
*shrug*