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On my refrigerator resides a yellowing homemade poster that reads:
I should add to it that whenever I feel a pressure to respond to someone in a certain way, it is coming from my knowledge of their view of me, or their view being applied to me... a thing almost everyone believes is safely secret within, not visible to others, let alone its object. You might want to interpret this that I think I'm enlightened, but you should try interpreting it that I have been working hard on myself for a long time. It's not religion. It's merely study. The science of freedom. The art of awakening. Ongoing.BLAZE COOL.
REST IN CONNECTION.
TENSION, AGITATION,
ANXIETY AND THRUST ARE
WARNING BELLS.
TRUTH IS NOT SEEN OR HEARD;
CANNOT BE SAID OR GIVEN;
PEOPLE WILL RESPOND
ACCORDING TO POTENTIAL,
ONLY, AND NO MORE.
SIGHT AND NONCONTRIVANCE
THEMSELVES POINT, AND ARE
ALL THAT CAN BE DONE.
It strikes me that you might believe my solidarity with looters and rioters means I endorse wanton violence as the agent of change. No. My solidarity is with their intent, their urge for liberation, and insofar as anything they do can relieve any suffering that is something I condone. Nonviolence is NOT a refuge for pusillanimity. It is not to be adopted for personal safety's sake. If it is not coupled with RESPONSIBILITY and the willingness to be injured or killed, it isn't nonviolence: It is FEAR. Conversely, if violence is aimed at halting harm, it isn't violence: It is halting harm. It's LOVE.
If the cops are coming to decimate your neighbors' health food co-op are you going to stand there gaping? Or are you going to go bodily impede them? If an assassin is aiming his gun at someone, are you gonna gape, or run, or shoot him?
The space lizards are desperate and when they are desperate we take apocalyptically heavy losses. They will prevail if you don't start answering these questions and stripping down to one unified incarnation of those answers.
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