tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227699874922387769.post2453065520634224710..comments2013-05-23T08:03:10.717-07:00Comments on Views from an old white woman: Occupy and the empowerment of the individualAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080634616985249345noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227699874922387769.post-40243322685419657702013-04-12T09:35:51.328-07:002013-04-12T09:35:51.328-07:00Diane,
Apologies for the delay in responding. Jus...Diane,<br /><br />Apologies for the delay in responding. Just noticed your response. Rereading mine I supposed you that you supposed that I was just another Male trying to tell you what to do. Apologies for that too.<br />Working backward through your post:<br />I have twice had dreams of situations from which I had to escape, that caused me to fling myself out of bed. and which I took as clear warnings. Because of one I quit my job, retired early.<br />Financially this was imprudent but at the time it seemed necessary and perhaps it was. A good Counselor might have helped reframe my angst allowing for a more appropriate or generative response, but my point here is that my work situation and my conscious management of it was at odds with my unconscious awareness and the subconscious was making itself heard as it will one way or another. <br /><br />The causes of madness are correct, but one especially troublesome: Blame. I think that this is so for the individual, both consciously and unconsciously, and for society as well.<br />A child from neglect or abuse, may surmise its own unworthiness and use its creativity toward self destruction or diminshment of others.<br />Blame by others can, and often is internalized as shame. Shame, I think, may be the greatest, most powerful, cause of madness. And this is so because it hides itself in territory of our subconscious that is so fearful and painful to enter. Shown as Terra Incognita or Here be Dragons on maps. <br />For me, a liberation therapist's work, or even that of a proper friend is a sensing of our fear of shame and returning it on a more explicate map. A map showing not just the cul-de-sacs, but a way through as well.<br />Its also what writers, poets, playwrights, storytellers do. <br /><br />I am not at all sure that our specie is a viable emergence on this wee and lovely planet. But some are aware of the pestilence our notion of exceptional prerogative amounts to. Better maps will emerge.<br />In the 80's Ted Turner offered a prize for a fictional vision of a future that worked, perhaps in response to the Club of Rome's pronouncement "I have seen the future and it doesn't work." Tom Quinn's book Ishmael won.<br />This in not so much to recommend the book as to notice say the call for a generative, creative response to the dystopia we live in is getting louder. Turner, I also suspect, erected the Georgia Guidestones as a warning. Why they are so thoroughly ignored still astounds me. <br /> <br />I get from your blog postings an attempt to come to terms with the dystopia, both individually and creatively and broadly. I relate to the artists work and its pain. Is it useful to think of men as simply more easily infected by hierarchical notions than women, as victims of their own vanity than women?<br />There is risk I think in blaming a gender. The blowback is an ill wind indeed.<br /><br />So, immer gerada aus, keep on going ahead. <br />You have whatever encouragement I can give. It worried me that you seemed to find yourself alone, unread. And maybe that was why I commented, me too. And because you posted the blogs link, that is you asked me to. <br />Glad I did.<br />Cheers, Tom Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227699874922387769.post-18309298159437732582013-04-09T08:24:56.209-07:002013-04-09T08:24:56.209-07:00thank you yes I got the comment...I am not good at...thank you yes I got the comment...I am not good at keeping up with the email. life drags me around by the tender parts at times and it isn't a priority. your right...I am not good at hawking myself. I do this mostly to be creative, vent...did you read my last one called Radical Hag? I though it was funny. Men are affected by hyper-masculinity and patriarchy. If a man can get through life without joining the military, beating someone up or becoming a mean greedy asshole, he is in the majority but wouldn't know it with all the brain washing and "hawking" of the culture of macho. If a woman can get through life with our selling her body, or beating anyone up, or becoming a stupid greedy bitch...you get my point. I am less about convincing anyone of my value, I work against having to justify my existence...I appreciate you find it valuable. How so? what do you get out of reading one, all? sorry about the run around...I too got it as well and had to write this over. damned id thang...I do dance on the edge of madness, it makes me a good therapist. something about pins and angels fearing etc. I am decidedly a liberation psychologist...to most of our madness is from being bullied, vilified and robbed and blamed. I do believe we are on the verge of a change to the better. Some how I want to be on the "edge' of that also. I am working on one called Welcome to Dystopia about how movies and t.v. are our waking dreams, collectively and what warnings, premonitions and guidance do they give us. thanks Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06080634616985249345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227699874922387769.post-8149206007687069912013-04-09T08:17:13.661-07:002013-04-09T08:17:13.661-07:00dude, got this one as well.dude, got this one as well.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06080634616985249345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227699874922387769.post-47929087103671328452013-04-06T10:50:05.814-07:002013-04-06T10:50:05.814-07:00Hawking your blog might not be such a bad idea. It...Hawking your blog might not be such a bad idea. It would at least imply that you think it is valuable. I think so too.<br />Its also what is meant by "Get your act together and take it on the road." <br />I have seen women (and men) in your circumstances go mad and become homeless. It happens routinely. Want recognition? Ask for it and importantly, acknowledge it when you get it. Come back. <br />Are you subscribed to your own post? Did you get a notice that I commented? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227699874922387769.post-53830234154529480772013-04-04T14:53:32.559-07:002013-04-04T14:53:32.559-07:00I just got a runaround trying to post a note here....I just got a runaround trying to post a note here. Let me know if you get this please.<br /><br />tomkimmel@tds.net Cherrylogger on Alternet commentsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com