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?"
Someone shared this with me who said it had been circulating in the Hasidic community. Will likely offend a lot of people these days.
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This is Frances Staudr in the Tumwater school district in Washington State. https://x.com/BrandiKruse/status/1974585600109088813
I appreciated the nuanced analysis provided here. One thing that I found so striking and sad is how younger and younger children are being recruited by the gangs, in some cases even to kill people.
I showed my daughter some public sculpture today. It was metal fashioned to look like wicker and rope.
She said that the artist was a “liar” and that “lying is mean”. I argued, that “is it only ok to make it out of rope or wicker to be a good person? “
“No” she said.
I then was then thinking about this statement, and mentioned this idea of “is it bad to pretend to be something your not”
She said “well only for the sculpture, not for other things”
The other thing obviously is the man she lives with, pretending to be something he is not. “Lying?”
