Kai offered us this great prompt for our group last Thursday. We had some really interesting discussions around this. Any thoughts?
"Some of us feel like victims of woke and other forms of authoritarianism. Even in our confusion and fear, we know in our bones that inciting race hatred, compelling speech, and cutting healthy body parts off of children are evil. So, we find others, like ourselves, trade stories, hold emotions, experiment with language and ideas. We feel connected and reassured. Becoming “anti-woke” is natural and healthy, but, as the language reveals, it is a fundamentally negative orientation that keeps us paranoid, playing defense.
The gift of woke is that it reminds us of something we fogotten: we have core values. The way out of victimhood is to articulate what we want and to pursue it. Saying “no” to woke is insufficient: we must say “yes” to life. So, what are your values? What do you truly want? What lights you up? What makes you laugh? Fills you with wonder? Relaxes you? What makes you strong? What makes you feel engaged? What gifts of your ancestors do you want to transmit and instantiate?"
Hi everyone, I haven't been active in Solid Ground for a while, but I am still alive and kicking! I now work as personal assistant to a mind-bendingly weird and diva-esque artist-lip-syncher-performer named Fiona Blueberry. She is blissfully clueless about politics and seems to be completely unaware of the culture wars. Working with her is a breath of fresh air. If you need a mood lift, I encourage you to watch this video we made together. Happy 4th, everyone! Wishing you fun/love/peace on this holiday. :) www.fionablueberry.com
Our very own @YayRain (after having imbibed some golden nectar), shares with us yet one more problem with CRT....
Really enjoying C.S. Lewis's MERE CHRISTIANITY. Just plucked this section (p. 49 in my copy). For those of us who are secular, switch out a concept/term like "Satan" with whatever fits--human nature, etc. This is the hubris of my former faith, call it secular liberalism, or secular humanism.
"The moment you have a self at all, there is a possibility of putting yourself first--wanting to be the centre--wanting to be God, in fact. That was the sin of Satan: and that was the sin he taught the human race.... What Satan put into the heads of our remote ancestors was the idea that they could 'be like gods'--could set up on their own as if they had created themselves--be their own masters--invent some sort of happiness for themselves outside God, apart from God. And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which ...
From Pirate Wires:
Honey, I killed the kids (respectfully)
A teacher on TikTok is going viral this week for her galaxy brain take that Incan child sacrifices weren’t really all that bad actually, because the people conducting these sacrifices “were kind about it” (verbatim quote). She says that because these sacrifices were often drugged up with coca leaves, the practice was pretty humane when you really think about it, adding that victims were “volunteers” and that those objecting to such practices are only doing so because they received a “white education.” That’s right, bigots — those little 7-year-olds wanted to be murdered as an offering to Pahtecatl the peyote god. Who are we to judge? In fact, if we want to truly honor the natives and shrug off our legacy of colonization, land acknowledgements are not enough: we must start brutally killing children again for rain. (Or — and hear me out — we should maybe just put every public school teacher on a watchlist)
Not a mashup I would have envisioned. They discuss Luigi, political violence, wokeness. https://open.substack.com/pub/rufo/p/what-does-a-defining-journalist-of
