Systemic oppression leads to language convolution. Language convolution allows for systemic oppression.
People that can’t speak freely find creative ways to say things and communicate information under the radar. When people convolute meanings the wrong people can be blamed for actions and people trying to communicate information can use it to hurt others. A bit of a catch 22.
Speak freely and people can get hurt. Don’t speak up an people can get hurt.
If we don’t want our words misconstrued don’t create a systemic oppression. People in jeopardy and people that just want to better themselves can both convolute meanings to help their cause.
Don’t lie. Don’t lie to the people trying to hurt you and your family?
Excessive surveillance can get people killed. Some surveillance can save lives. People terrorized by surveillance can take and use it against those putting surveillance on them.
Ideally we all speak freely and think better of each other. In this environment it is difficult to say the least. Some creative word play can inspire ideas, or get people to think green to help save the planet. Other word play can make people’s lives a living hell.
Part of the problem is people believe the end justifies the means. This can leave a wake of destruction on the pursuit of a better tomorrow. There should be lines not to be crossed. Though when others are crossing lines this can be exceedingly difficult.
Do we choose to fight today? How do we choose to fight today? Is the battle worth losing the war? Will getting even make anything better? A dead man can’t fight the long battle, and some fights are worth dying for. A gun to my head is easier to respond to than a slow systemic robbery that is crippling my life and my family.
The small passive aggressive attacks lead people to believe even the normal problems of life are part of a plot against them. Convolution of what is a real attack and what is just life makes knowing when to fight and the level of force to use proportionally difficult. Being attacked on multiple levels in different ways could lead some to take big swings just to stay above water. They might lash out against the wrong people and might respond in the wrong ways without knowing the full story. Knowing all this doesn’t make knowing when to fight easier.
I guess my belief is just to find appropriate ways to blow off steam. When other people are being hurt stand up for them. Also realize that everyone misses somethings. Also realize that what is humorous to some is gasoline and a match to others. Also realize without looking at things in a humorous way some people might want to burn everything down. Laughter is medicine that can save a lot of lives.
It is not always easy to discern the line with humor. The idea that the same levels should be used for all people in all situations is problematic. Even the inflection of someone’s voice can rape someone with the wrong health problems. That doesn’t mean everyone should have to speak monotone around everyone.
Treat other’s as they wish to be treated is hard. It is also a bit idealistic. If we are too afraid of stepping on each other’s toes we won’t talk. When people don’t talk divide and control becomes much easier for an enemy. When rage is left to fester it makes people less likely to want to talk. Who wants to be yelled at? When we just talk at surface level and never about the deeper issues, anger and injustice can be like a rolling snowball. Speaking to each other on deeper levels opens people up to being hurt. Nobody wants to be hurt so they put up a protective shield. Some people don’t want to be communicated to because their anger has been left to fester. Trying to talk with them is not how they wish to be treated. Maybe at deeper issue they want the issues resolved and so actually speaking with them is the way to stop the anger from festering. Health problems like mentioned above can make this line much more difficult to discern. So people have different ways of trying to solve this problem. Some will go silent thinking God will sort this out. Other’s push to hard an alienate and increase the resentment by confirming that people don’t listen to them. I have been punished in life for both. So if staying silent doesn’t work at times, the middle ground doesn’t work at times, and pushing to hard doesn’t work at times. It is easy to become disenfranchised with the whole process.
I think what we all have to remember is doing the right thing doesn’t always make things better. Life is more than the sum of our own actions. The idea that this problem is centralized only to my life would be unlikely. So if we realize that for some people doing what is right doesn’t work always, it should be easier to forgive them. Not saying we shouldn’t try to do the right thing, just that when people fail us it should be pretty easy to understand why. It is also a powerful tool of the Devil to make us think we are making the wrong choice when we are making the right ones.
The truth of my life is it would be easy for people to judge me for things they don’t understand. They might have limited capacity and likely are missing the many things below the surface. It is difficult to learn to not to be quick to judgement. We are given limited information. My desire to stand up for what is right and protect the innocent blinded me in younger years to say overly harsh things. My knowledge in older years has given me more perspective albeit it might prevent me from acting as fast as required in some situations. Way I see it, if people are in trouble get them out of it. Have a great preference for methods that can be undone later as information and truth can evolve with time. Nobody wants to finally see the clearer picture and realize someone didn’t need to die, someone didn’t need to be tortured, someone didn’t need to sit in jail all those years.
Not that I was ever part of the FBI or NSA etc but it probably is a bad idea to give surveillance unchecked to intel people early in life. An ambitious young spirit, trying to prove their way, given limited information and false alarms could leave the wrong people in jail or worse. Law enforcement has no less impact on lives than doctors. At their best they can save many lives and keep us all from hurting each other. Even the good ones miss the mark sometimes just like doctors. So I would rather celebrate their contribution to society than hate them for what they miss.
There is systematic problems we need to fix, and keeping the conversation open and honest is vital to their success as well. Problem is with systemic oppression the conversation breaks down. The idea that law enforcement or doctors are perfect and infallible is wrong, they aren’t gods. That doesn’t mean they aren’t highly valuable and needed in society. If one person’s brakes fail we don’t throw out all the mechanics.
Knowing who to trust with what when and how much is a difficult task. I suppose I should be a little more understanding though when my life is made hell on earth do they expect me to just go silently into the night?
Speaking these truths can be difficult and dangerous. It would be unwise to think everyone can, would, or should. I think the more people that say this the better and I also realize in a fallen world with leverage and the ability for anyone’s words to be taken out of context some that agree might refrain from speaking up. I wish we lived in a world where everyone felt they could speak freely and everyone would use that ability to encourage and affirm each other toward the good for all. I thought that living in the USA that is what we have. Maybe some have had it for certain times in USA history, though our failure to guarantee and protect that for all people might have led us to lose it.
I think it was John Stuart that once said “we have free speech, not consequence free speech.” Maybe it wasn’t him that said it. The problem is this feels like leverage. Maybe this is a more truthful way to look at how we treat free speech in the USA. This has been the impression of experiences in my life from 2010 to 2020.
Maybe nobody ever reads this. I hope it can possibly give insight to those who might want to know me in the future. I love our country and wish we could find a way to make all our people’s lives around the world prosperous and filled with joy, wonder, hope and faith. I feel like our country is missing the mark loving and caring for each other, and I don’t mean that in the wrong way. Not to disregard or disrespect all the good that has been done in 2020 and my life has had many of the same experiences this year as I have had the last 10 years.
Seems like people want me to lose hope. This I refuse. I want people in my life. I want to know who I can trust with what information. I want to know people that aren’t constantly telling me only part of the truth. It is one thing to only have a few people in your life on the level. It is miserable to feel like everyone in your life won’t level with you.
Probably how cops feel sometimes. Nobody wants to tell them the truth because they are afraid they will throw them or someone they care about in jail. For example in my own life I didn’t want cops around the pool because having someone with a gun seems to raise tensions. Maybe if they had clubs I would feel a bit safer. I don’t want anyone in jail and I want clean drinking water and safe bridges to drive over. Making that reality is a bit more difficult in practice and that is the ideal that I aspire to. Some might be too dangerous to be out of jail, though my guess is many times that is due to the failures in society around them. Knowing that I would like to make our jails and prisons more comfortable for all. We might not be able to repair the injustice of leaving innocent people in prison for years but we can at least make it about protecting the public and not making their lives a living hell. Maybe as lie detectors get better we can allow people to fight their cases quicker. Being left in jail without a trial sucks. Being blamed for something you don’t know sucks too.
Further a person that can contribute to society is worth more out of jail than in jail. It is imperative to us as a society to help protect people’s lives so they have the ability to do so. There are many reason why people get into a mess, some which are more than the sum of their own choices. We all make mistakes and we all need emotional support, health, a roof over our heads, food to eat, and transportation. Take away any of those and your going to wind up with problems. So curing that seems more wise than making people out to be mentally ill.
You don’t want to see the guy on top of the skyscraper jump? Don’t take way all their emotional support. Want that guy to be more productive at work? Get him decent healthcare. Don’t want that guy roaming the streets? Give him a place to live and food to eat. People can abuse this but the potential for abuse does not outweigh the value of support.
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