As an emotional being, I am provoked by all sorts of things in life. And as an emotional being, those things that are emotionally provocative can easily rule my life, if I choose to let them. But I do have choices.
If I am not mindful, I will follow my emotions into all sorts of bad choices, impulsively, reflexively. So I’ve learned to be mindful all the time. The hard way.
I embrace my natural reactions, fully experiencing the emotional charge provoke in me. Mindful of my ego, that asserts itself as god, I also form a response, cognitively, overruling my innate emotional “apishness.” No to impulsiveness; yes to mindful response. (Yes, this monkey wants a banana. ☺)
Embracing my emotional nature, and mindfully managing my life are especially important in today’s culture, where (establishment) media uses outrage to socially program society. This is the age of “Outrage Culture.” Earlier forms of social violence (deception and manipulation) no longer work, we caught on to their bullshit. So the outrageousness of propaganda has increased over time to maintain the same effect of social violence (deception and manipulation). Addictions are like this. Media is now practiced in full outrage.
Don’ts:
So as excited as I get when exposed to provocative events, I also remember they are presented for the express purpose of programming me into a pre-determined, crafted behavior, favorable to the establishment. Facts.
Knowing this, I stay away from the outlets of social violence, used for social programming. I do not watch the “news” because there isn’t any “news,” only programming. I stay away from twitter, facebook, reddit, or other social media forums that are contrived propaganda operations. (Talk about a human intelligence bonanza!) Besides, there is no conversing with the decidedly, confidently stupid. Even upon failure, these folks blame everything but themselves, and do not learn. My definition of evil is willful incompetence.
Dos:
I do post language on my experience and understanding of things. I do contribute to conversations that are exploring the issues. And I do have my very own website, completely under my own control, free of censorship and interference. I speak power to lies. Fiction culture cannot withstand reality.
Remember establishment media presents things to socially program you. They omit things to socially program you. They are socially violent, using deception and manipulation. Its a thing. Do not fall for it. Do not spend time with it. Do not lose yourself to their provocations. Good and bad things happen all the time. All over the world. Events do not change right and wrong.
I keep these things in mind, so that I am able to see and pursue the appropriate time and ways in which to fight evil, to fight the farming practices of the establishment and their governments. I keep these things in mind, as a normal course of affairs to what it is to be an actual American, and not a poser. I keep these things in mind because I choose to be an American. I ask you to do the same. We’re better for it.
David Weeks, Information Developer, Tampa, Florida.