Fearing death, fearing life, fearing love, and fearing most of all the loss of control, we create social rules and institutions that mirror our fears and reinforce our destructive behaviors. Having surrounded ourselves with images of ourselves, and having silenced all others, we can now pretend that the false-front world we've created is instead the world we've been given. We can pertend the world is a very dangerous place, where dogs eat dogs, where children and others must be beaten into submission, where a fierce struggle takes place in which only the strongest, meanest, most unethical and hateful survive, and ultimately where we die alone and afraid. Any threat to this illusion must be annihilated before it reminds us of what we've lost, what we've destroyed, and of what could have been.
What do you do, how tired do you get, when each day you struggle against an entire culture [Industry] based on the normalization of trauma-inducing behavior? There is no sanctuary.
~~Derrick Jensen
No one owns my mind. There are a few that share my perception of realtiy and vision of a better world.. which does not include abusive programs or any of those who might collude with the Industry.
Deborah
