Showing posts with label freedom of speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freedom of speech. Show all posts

Thursday, 9 May 2019

Hatred is NEVER truly shared

https://www.sott.net/article/412669-Is-the-end-of-free-speech-a-natural-solution-to-the-hatred-shared-online 

Hatred is NEVER truly shared but joined with as a subjugation of self for a sense of relative righteousness or superiority.

Hatred can and does set up the 'other' as a scapegoat or foil over and against which to assert a self raised upon their invalidation or denial.

The mind of hatred hides or masks in the forms or appearances of love or concern, in sympathy or protection - excepting when the 'evils of the other' justify attack in righteous and vengeful self-vindication.

The answer to hate speech is to not give it currency as anything worthy of joining with or under.
Don't join in hate, or you will forget who you are for the self hate gives you instead.

That there is hatred in the human heart is evident. The attempt to eradicate or deny hated evils on others and world is its destruction - and ours.
Facing or feeling our feeling, to uncover the beliefs and definitions that the feeling is the result of is bringing the dark to the light - regardless we hate to feel hateful - but BECAUSE we want to heal rather than hide or deny.
The attempt to bring light to darkness is entering a false frame of a personal sense of power that corrupts and makes sacrifice of light and life to conflict - which is the means of denying free awareness AS light.

Guilt and manipulation are anathema to communication because they call forth hatred and attack - as our triggered 'defence'.
The Internet cannot be allowed to serve communication, any more than the mind - for it would then uncover the lack of substance in the established order or 'authority', and so defences are triggered and the devices of denial are activated.

Free speech like any communication can be usurped by manipulative agenda - knowingly or otherwise. But then it is not free speech but an alloyed communication of both signal and noise OR no intent for communication at all, but simply leverage adopting the form of a communication.
I do not have to associate or join with anything that I feel undermines integrity in myself or others - but that does not mean I am in a position to judge others.

The wish to judge others and play in its fantasy or act it out upon them is the symptom of a lack of self integrality. But finding the sins of others and hating them there is not freeing ourself of our own, but it is a primary defence against our own exposure.

Self hatred is the underlying conflict that the world was made to hide. Everyone makes a slightly different world by nature of the particular forms of self judgement or rejection that set our personality structure. identifying in the mask is at the expense of sharing in the true. But within the mask there IS no truth but what is made up or used to mask in. If what we WANT is out of alignment with what we ARE then dissonance and conflict serve an eventual correction or healing. It may be RIGHT to want love, power and freedom - but completely wrong to set these in terms and conditions of futility and destructive or hateful assertion.

That a collective identity can generate a 'shutdown' of communication as a result of triggered fears is not obvious when everyone sees everyone else as being the cause or justification for polarising into hateful or exclusive identity.

Friday, 9 January 2015

Freedom to communicate is not a weapon

Charlie Hebdo Shooting: Maori Broadcaster Derek Fox Under Fire For Victim-Blaming Comments on Paris Terror Attacks

Freedom to blame, to invalidate, attack and undermine other people - in the name of 'freedom'?

Hatred born of fear and guilt can take many disguises. None of them are free to love. Love is free to create - but deceit can only work to deny, distort and destroy. Who wants to be outraged and offended or use proxies for their grievance, will seek and find the basis for justifying hate and attack - on some level. Is there not a fanaticism that denies and subverts all communication in the name of 'freedom' - and it works every side of every conflict. For it makes the darkness in which to operate and grow in power unnoticed.

The deceiver is for many an archaic term for an agenda that operates destructively, largely by remaining hidden or in disguise. In any potential event of undoing by exposure it will sacrifice 'others' by scape-goating them as evil, worthless and heretical or insane. It offers 'righteous vengeance' to cover over the evil one fears in oneself.

In a world where false flags have been historically shown to be normally part of a war of manipulating perceptions to trigger predictable reaction, one is wise to look and see what agendas ARE being pushed. The 'war on terror' propagates terror. It increase darkness against light of true understanding.

When Jesus said "Resist ye not evil" he taught a fundamental creative responsibility - for what one focus on and feeds attention to, magnifies.

Murder is murder. Incitement or provocation to hate may be foolhardy but doesn't call for or warrant murder. But those who believe they are aggrieved, will believe it the basis for vengeance in one form or another - and hatred is not a sane perspective.

Is Derek Fox embodying freedom of speech? Are those who vilify him trying to shut down his right to free speech? In such confusions as are our world, we un-mindfully react and compound them. Fear is not a true foundation from which to live. It steals our joy in life and ravages our world. Seek a true foundation!



Gary Carkeek  reacted thusly:

The fact that Fox was able to make his comments is proof he (and we) are allowed to - we have freedom of speech. Evaluating another's words is also freedom of speech, and being disgusted by it is not and attempt to 'shut down' that right. Do you honestly not get that?
To Gary I say:
Communication is - as far as I am concerned - an exchange within a relationship. The use of communication as a weapon of coercion or manipulation operates to deny relationship and communication under the 'name' of some appeal for an ideal such as 'freedom' or under the appeal of self-righteousness in opposing something tarred as 'disgusting'.
Manipulated consciousness is in many ways, the current world order, and works by guile and deceit such as to deny its own exposure. Personal or collective emotionality is not holy, but it is a point of leverage for manipulators.
Vilification is an attempt to deny or invalidate another. Can you not address the issue without attacking the person? All choices have consequences. The idea of acting without consequence is a false idea of freedom. What we give out sets the measure of what we get back. If you believe emotionally backed coercions will free you, you will believe in their reality when they rebound.

So much miscommunication arises from holding completely irreconcilable self definitions, from which irreconcilable notions of freedom extend automatically. If one is 'allowed' a freedom, is it then innate or true? Who 'allows'? Who or what is the power that chooses to allow or disallow freedom? Is it that which consolidates through fear? Can reacting fearfully truly express freedom? Is not fear's dictum, 'divide and rule'?

Emotionality is not holy - but a true capacity to feel is innate to our Soul and our sanity. Tokenism may posit its 'proofs'. I suggest that 'political correctness' gives rise to fear of vilification that is actively undermining our willingness to communicate and relate, but merely reacting against it only feeds its appetite. War breeds war. War is the condition in which light cannot enter, truth is denied and persona agenda indulged as if THAT is freedom.

Freedom to assert what one is NOT at the expense of what we truly are, is the insanity of
human-un-kind. To uncover this in part IS disgusting in ourselves and so most will seek to get rid of it by whatever means asap. True sanity cannot be founded on running away from what we hate and fear in ourselves in attempt to put it out upon the other and attack them so as to aggressively disown our own part. But this pattern is a collective human defence mechanism that operates destructively in our midst. It generates and feeds war and woe.

Also please notice the comments you reacted to were questions inviting consideration and not assertions imposing themselves on the reader. You missed the very next sentence after the one you misread.
" In such confusions as are our world, we un-mindfully react and compound them".

Are you free to evaluate or is that already sold out to a defensive reflex? I do not mean this to demean you - but as a moment of noticing how easy it is to react to what isn't there - but which the mind believes is there. This is the direction of enquiry that uncovers opportunity for healing and unifying in place of polarized insanity.




Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Branded slaves?

Can someone please turn Russell Brand off? Headlines a personal comment 'article' by Gareth Platt in the IBT

If we really want to turn someone 'off' we give our attention elsewhere - or if it is simply a behaviour and reaction in ourself we want to change - we can perhaps engage a process of communication within ourself and perhaps with the other.

The idea of turning off what one doesn't want and turning on what one does is properly the job of making conscious choices from a connected sense of true being and not a reactive attempt to validate or escape a sense of being fearfully or falsely defined.

Anyway - here's what I wrote in the comment box :

No one can or ever will, represent me - but me. However, in EVERY one I meet I may find facets, attributes of idea and behaviour that resonate with me both positively and negatively, and I may choose to use either of these to obtain a positive result by the purpose I accept and use them for.

The subjection of communication to  'correctness' or vilification and invalidation, operates a 'war' of denial upon communication. The basis of this 'war' is called lie, propaganda, deceit, vanity, arrogance - do you get what I am saying? That Communication of a true nature is a complete kit - for everything true will manifest from it and only a the assertion, allegiance and identification with un-truth can interject the confusion and division of a personal war to determine truth as power to invalidate others.

But truth that can be used as a weapon in hate and fear is not true - regardless its original source and context. The 'devil' quotes Scripture. Our minds at the persona level are masks within a game of powers that goes nowhere in self destructive vanities and arrogances.

The nature of the personae becomes the screen of diversion from the actual issues being met, faced or suffered.

So it is perhaps ironic that Mr Brand - what an apt name! - is branding himself as a spokesperson for speaking out against the unnacceptable facade that is progressively mind-manipulated and 'normalised' by establishment media, politicians and corporate and financial vested interests. Accepting the unacceptable is an exercise in displacement or mind-splitting. No matter how ingeniously the mind personifies itself in order to project and redistribute fear and guilt, such only operates a false basis truly experienced.

Focussing on the personal is choosing to keep the problem hidden and largely redefined and diversioned. Focussing on the underlying issue always identifies definition and belief in consciousness that is out of true. Holding this in the light of awareness INSTEAD of using it for personal attack or self or other invalidation of blame or shame DOES open a shifted perspective - a more UNIFIED and communicating perspective - a less 'split off' and wilful or unwilling defendedness. And so I recomend it.

Our society has branded its mind into mindshare under obeisance to a mind-manipulative 'power' to get. Be it consumer or corporation - the operative to get operates the propaganda of lovelessness or disconnected attemp to 'get' life from others instead of growing and sharing in the Life That Is.

Using what is wrong with externals or others to assert a self-righteousness asserts a hidden anti-Life agenda of deceit, vanity and arrogance that always becomes the very thing it hates - for that has driven it all along.

Branded slaves lose the power to speak or even think along any lines but those their master imprints upon them. Letting Mr Brand iconify freedom of speech and thought may herd a significant mindshare into a managed resistance that can be turned to whatever use the masters want. But resonating with freedom of speech within one's own heart and mind can and does uncover a true basis from which to extend a presence of communication that does not play into the mind-games of attempting to be or accepting role of the master of another - even for apparently good causes.

"For though the rules of the road have been lodged, it's only people's games, you gotta dodge" Sang Bob Dylan. But actually it is one's OWN that one has to identify and align or drop. Wherever information comes from that is relevant and resonant to who and what you truly are - pay attention. It is for you.

Monday, 9 July 2012

The right to be rude? Insult a criminal offence?

It is clear to see that special cases are given priority where other cases of a similar nature are ignored.
Where defamation of character is reasonable to challenge in law, hurt feelings are not.
A quickness to use a law that was supposed to protect, as a weapon, means that all other means are not first tried before a last resort.
The criminalisation and public demonization of thoughts is a tyranny that blocks the possibility of the healing of such thoughts.
As if fear and punishment and blame can stamp out fear and punishment and blame.

However, the non acceptance of habits of behaviour that were once accepted or unchallenged is a movement of integrity - and worth finding a better way of holding.

The capacity of the mind to dehumanize or blank another, devalues both the apparent victim and the apparent victimizer - though the recipient does not have to support the mentality to which they are exposed. One does not have to validate victimhood to express an integrity of being that calls for and witnesses truth.

The value of such understandings to humanity in its currently bankrupted and insanely dislocated state are INCALCULABLE - because they unlock the mind from its own self limiting errors and open pathways through which life flows abundantly.

But the passion and identification that human minds hold as their attempt to prevail or their attempt to protect from being prevailed over - make it almost impossible for such perspective to find welcome.

The true response to error is to correct it - but this is misunderstood if we think we can see a sin in another and escape it by stoning the other. Correction is witnessed by a realignment of harmony and not of an enforcement of will upon another.

Because we have each grown a vocabulary and perception of conflicted self, conflicted interests and a loveless or mean spirited and self righteous attempt to present ourselves justified - we have a war of communication. That is we use communication and 'truths' for a war that seems unquestionably real to us and a war which a fearful sense of self WANTS to be real - as it maintains the conditions in which we are hidden. It enables us to keep our mask without the knowledge that it is a mask.

A harmony of life is not a great mystery - though the depths of potential for such an alignment of heart and mind and communication surpass anything we could imagine possible.

One does not say to one who feels victim - "don't be a victim" but support that one in awakening and expressing their integrity - an integrity of being and not a mask of righteousness.

But when 'shit' comes to us, we do have an opportunity to pause from what may seem a righteous reaction, and listen deeper for the part we play in setting ourselves up for the experience. I am not saying that we consciously are responsible for our experience of what happens in our lives - but that we are unconscious to much of our wish, thought and intent - and that this is still active even though it is 'outlawed' or denied awareness. It simply manifests as our experience by different routes if one of them is blocked.

The current trend has been to manage and manipulate society - and this reflect perfectly the mind we accept as our self. If we want to see a more honest way of relating together we must honour what we are honestly feeling.

The mind of reaction is a programmed mind. It can be manipulated and coerced but to do so is to lose ones own communication to a manipulative mindset. To pause from reaction and release the emotional charge as a valid authority from which to act, is to allow a true authority to register in awareness.

We define freedom in our own self image. But freedom is itself free to disregard definitions and express itself in its true nature. While we feel our self concept must prevail, we suffer every kind of heartbreak and indignity and struggle amidst an overwhelming complexity of adversity - or numb our minds with whatever distracts so as to protect against the dispiriting weight of it.

The key to the release of self image and the awakening of a love and freedom believed lost, dead or impossible, is perhaps most simply offered in the phrase "Love thine enemy".
But realize that they are a role in your own script, that you are giving out - and that the welcome to yourself of what you had thought to deny and reject is your own Homecoming.

It will also reflect in the behaviours that proceed - but that is not the focus.

Thankyou for your attention.

Friday, 15 June 2012

This Defamation Bill is a disaster for free speech

Comments on the issues around the 'defamation bill' of which I have not studied in detail - but anyway felt to comment on the theme and issues as I felt them.


In exercising freedom of expression here I risk being understood or appreciated by none and perhaps of offending many! - but as I am airing reflections for your consideration or to be passed by according to your desire, I have no investment in an outcome beyond an enjoyment of exercising a freedom to speak.

Opinionating tends to be defamatory and lack honour by its self-serving nature. We are used to being private or unpublic in our personal mythologies of praise and blame, but the world has changed.

Communicating is lost when using mere forms of communication (of no intent to actually open communication) - as attempts to dump blame or shame on others, set ourselves off in a relatively self righteous contrast or distract attention from what we do not want to be made aware of.

Is there a way to communicate a lack of integrity without attacking the person of another? I feel there is, and I have embraced the discipline of feeling for clearly positive ways to say things that otherwise tend to be encoded in story such as to convey mixed messages - that simply add 'my story' to an already conflicted and confused situation. (Of stuckness or standoff).

The nature of a lack of conscious appreciation for life is a personal sense of powerlessness - and from this sense are we liable to grow a persona/identity that gets a hit from the fantasy of power played out - whether in a socially supported role or as an Internet troll. Powerlessness feels bad. Piling blame on top validates the shit to the shitty for the temporary satisfaction of others who enjoy your humiliation. But all that is needed is to restore the true appreciation for life such as to undo the basis for a fantasy self.

To own what we say is to demonstrate the courage of our convictions - as is to retract when we realize we are wrong.
Anonymous or masked identity may play out all kinds of fantasy roles - but should not be allowed to remain masked when there is a clear and reasonable case of dishonesty and injustice.

Whether we can get Corporate PR companies, and Government 'spin doctors' to stop distorting and manipulating our information stream is another level.

The law is often blunt and blind. The spirit in which a law is meant to serve may not at all be that in which t is applied.

There needs to be discernement between hurt feelings (hurt ego) and a loss of reputation that has substance.

Without discernment, made up stories are taken for real, and get to displace actuality.

Our true word is an extension of our self - and our false witness is an extension of our ignorance of truth.

A wilful ignorance of truth is made to serve a freedom to privately and mutually determine reality and fight over it.

Reality does not sue - or retalliate against illusion - for It remains unchanged even if the mind turns upon itself and spins. There is always more going on than our surface realites suggest - but where an illegitimacy is accepted in the name of truth, it shall be uncovered and undone. For it never truly WAS, nor IS, nor Shall Be

Reality remains completely non-stick. But when we give value to shit by dumping or casting it out onto others - we set up a false sense of self validation - and base a whole society on it.

When we look to the world to get our identity we (set ourselves up), and hurt ourself. But our word is our deed and speaks directly of our thought and intent, like to like. If our words, thoughts and deeds do not align as one, then no amount of PR or spun presentation can make an iota of difference - though illusion can make for delay in protection of a well dressed suffering.

Monday, 20 December 2010

Lovelessness and pornography

Lovelessness - asserts it freedoms to abuse, exploit and worship fantasies upon life, upon others upon ones own body - as a substitute for real relationship - which it knows nothing of - and fears. It knows not an honouring, trust-growing, undefended, and loving relationship and lives out a distorted fantasy life in secret.


Sexual loving is a beautiful language of being. Our bodies are wonderful communicators of loving presence - as we allow ourselves to let go of strategic self interest - getting something or getting away from something - and discover ourselves caring, playing, and holding each other. Oneness is not a climax - it is the very ground of our being - shared. There is so much more to life than what we think we know - and that is experienced a wonder, beauty and a glorious quality of being - of a communioned life.


Lovelessness is a disconnected sense of self-lack in isolation that restlessly seeks stimulating distraction in order to feel alive - and thus deadens itself and calls it 'satisfaction'. It then ups the stakes in order to get a hit or becomes addicted to reenacting empty rituals. Fantasy life that fucks up the capacity to look beyond outer forms and discover the truly wondrous nature of love - because a society that has become fearful has turned its back on love and instead seeks selfishly to grasp at whatever offers makes its pain subside - and hates to open to a light of a shared awareness. It hates to love - and loves to hate.


By being available outside a cultural context of relationship, pornography becomes culturally acceptable currency. Women have their labia cut to look like the girls in the porn. College kids emulating the porn scenarios that are purveyed as if women are dirty slut bitches and fit only to fist, fuck and cum all over as if that were a gift!


When does playing in - and exploring boundaries become the deception and abduction or coercion of sex slaves? Is it when we care more about maintaining our own fantasies than letting the truth of another - or of our self - interfere?


I am writing here because there is a much larger conversation about our sexuality, than socially induced consumerism, that extends a 'culture' of exploitation, manipulation, and usury - and calls it freedom. It is not talked openly - but referred to in comic tones - that let a sort of slapstick, gloss over and sanitize it as a 'bit o'fun'.


Now if a demeaning and malicious lie about you is propagated as if it were truth - you would not subscribe to it - nor would you nurture it - nor would you defend its right to be equal to the truth. Instead you would subscribe to that which promotes appreciation of truth, and invest your care and value in it. You might struggle long to come to your senses though as the cultural pressures suggest that its ok to fuck yourself up - or indeed anyone else - because we are free of outdated and phoney moral sensibilities - and "We are all individuals".


Distractions that serve to cover the dissonance of human life do not really give freedom - they bring hollow emptiness and addiction. However, with those whose full intent is to wilfully assert themselves as they are not - and declare themselves self-content - it is vain to argue. Life is a teaching - learning adventure - and we are free to learn through pain as well as joy. Forgiveness is a real release from guilt when one is willing to accept and share it. No one is damned but by their own refusal.


What we demonstrate in our lives - is the culture that we share - particularly to those who we welcome into the world and pass on the ways we know. All are free to learn according to their own heart's guidance - no matter what experiences we have - we ultimately choose the meaning it has for us.


But the Meaning that is uncovered that truly serves us all is not one of dressing up in the dark so as to play out our own psychodrama - but of a genuine kindness, care and attention.


I see the raising of the curtains of a false privacy as the disclosure to ourselves of ourselves - and this IS a real opportunity. Because amidst our self spun script of a life we act out as if it were real - and discover perhaps a lot later - that we chose against our own heart's desire.


There may be a lot of money in selling porn - but there is only an undermining of commonwealth. Is there a place for it? Of course there is - but if it is not kept in its place it usurps ... the capacity of Soul to feel and know life directly.


Thanks for your attention

Wednesday, 8 December 2010

Wikileaking truth into the mind that thinks it thinks alone

Amidst the drama of our engaged attention and the outpicturing of fundamental aspects of the human mind. I pause to let leak into awareness, something of the nature of mind itself. To intuit upstream. To be released of the hack that runs as if who and what it thinks it is - IS what it is.

Truth is truth by being truth and not as as informational support or means for personal or private enhancement or gain. That truth is the first casualty of war should be a practical alarm for any who notice the engagement in war in their own heart and mind.

The conspiracy of fearful mind is one of shared purpose amidst a private darkness that gives preference to a private self interest above truth itself. It doesn't mind what political nature runs 'the country' as long as it owns the bank that controls the 'currency'. In this sense the currency of our love of truth is liable to be subverted by the false currency of derivative 'truths' - that appeal to our unquestioned, fear driven 'needs'.

When desires of a self-seeking nature are indulged, they bias or distort the appreciation of truth, all things will then automatically be used to support and validate the false perspective - and therefore justify an interpretation of reality that is presumed or believed to be true against alternate assertions that are automatically seen as adversary - and fought against.

We become the thing that we hate - because we feed it with our attention and identify it as real to us.

The truly personal dimension of truth is the intimacy of freedom to love.
But the personification of truth is a psychological or mythological overlay of story that seeks to create a personal sense - separate from truth. To - as it were - 'tell the truth' and acquire validity and authority from the telling, rather than share in the appreciation of and natural guidance within - a presently connected sense of reality.

When blame substitutes for responsibility, truth has been put aside for the game of denying and excluding the fear of guilt from our mind.

In self signed certificate of our moral righteousness we are phished by a blind and unloving intent to fight our shadows upon our unrecognized kindred.

Love of truth must remain rooted in the truth of love - or its simply a war game. War games are addictive to those who maintain their identity or sense of self from opposition, from the thrill of the sport and the drama of becoming.

The exposure of that which was hidden can serve a greater good than grabbing advantage or feeding a habit.

Our times are calling forth fundamental change - and require a true accounting of what we are and do - so that we can be in truth renewed.

The desire to know truth is the release of the desire to hide or subvert it. But it is not a witchhunt.

The resources that become available when fear loses it grip on the human heart - are unimaginably rich. Truth is not scarce - but witness for truth is the great need of our true heart.

May we discern our good amidst the noise of the world - and discover a world less dense, less lightless and more integrated; more sane.

Wednesday, 14 July 2010

Is it ever ok to call someone else a Nazi?

Incitement to hatred in a public domain might be something that can be investigated as to its intent - but to criminalise - and therefore to invite public vilification of people whose attempt to enforce their version of truth upon another-  reveals itself -  in a symbolic and frustrated attack - that has no intent other than to dump on the other and break communication in an appearance of triumph of being right - is to LOSE the opportunity to bring this very behaviour - and its associated mentality - into the light of awareness. Raising awareness may involve calling a stop to institutionalized or previously accepted  'cultures' of abuse - and law may have a place, but only if it is simply the backstop beneath a true culture of communication.

We feed and even become the thing we hate in our self righteousness - and unfortunately, the psychological insights that could have set us on a road to enlightenment are used for the same old mentality of god and devil, right and wrong, It is this mentality that deprives our mind of its wholeness and makes a blinkered and fearful fragmented approach to life that is not inherently necessary. There is a better way - and it is worthy of being discovered.
To attempt to use law - with the backing of the force of the State - to force people to be 'good' - or prevent them being 'bad' is just the same sort of mentality as that under the Nazi or any other tyrannical ideology - in that they who are sure they are right (because who they are fighting against are definitely wrong!) - feel fully justified in forcing their will upon others.
War is a breakdown of communication, but so is the use of communication as a mere manipulative device; a mask; a strategy of self interest at the other's expense.
As we do to our fellow man, we do to our very self. This may not seem true to a mind that uses truth to spin its own story - but it is inescapable. We know what judgement and blame brings forth. How about seeing what a true willingness to listen and learn brings forth?