https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/diana-west-on-robert-malone-bringing/
The experience of exhaustion from conflict is a critical opportunity or liability. In the article above the liability is obvious - 'any way out!'. This is an intended experience for the strong or sweet talking persuader to set 'conviction' in the conflicted as a 'way out of conflict' - except it is a control set that does conflict - but as if its idea is right or necessary - hence others are 'invalid' or wrong etc. The true opportunity is to suspend or release our own demands or needs that other or situations be different than they are, for only then can we hear what is within or beneath the appearances and abide or be with it in ourselves. This doesn't mean support or agreement for ideas that seek to impact or coerce outcomes, so much as acknowledge them in the field of what is being held.
David Bohm's "On Dialogue" speaks to the heart of participatory thought and therefore culture. As does 'A Different Drum' - Scott-Peck's book on Community Building.
As for this current situation, anyone invested in the established order cannot help but be in some sense captured by their own stake or investment of identity and world-view. Excepting that process of questioning what we took to be reality. Which is really the stirring of a depth that our current sense of self cannot 'fit' or integrate, without self-honesty to fear, conflict, hate, pain and lack or loss.
We are liable or conditioned to seek an external cause or blame by which to mitigate or mask over such pain, often without any awareness that we do so, and so fired with those emotive intensities against the shadow enemies that most readily represent the deep sense of threat.
'Communication breakdown - its always the same'.
Opposition feeds a polarised breakdown of communication.
But the capacity to give disregard to what is recognisable nothing to actively engage with or give value to, is to release our own participation in or contract with an evil we may say we don't want, but persist in.
Marshal Rosenberg's work is also applicable and worthy. NVC was also called life serving communication. Enemy images block any real communication, and yet we all hold such judgements as part of our own casting direction.
Sides of war always serve a hidden agenda, but insofar as we side with serving life and freedom we are not wholly identified by what we hate, and some willingness to heal allows some integrative step or synchronicity release and replace a self-reinforcing persistent and painful futility. A light in which to see, feel and be moved freely.
