Challenging auto-pilot thinking, behaviours and structures
I love the possibility of reimagining society & our CONNECTIONS, not with a top-down approach but by representation at all levels of society with a weaving of all areas.
Not by force or further legislation but through examination, cooperation, education and exemplary behaviour, hopefully led by an innate sense of consideration, responsibility & respect for a thriving humanity.
The current trajectory of divide, demoralisation and condemnation for a vision of what is suitable for one or one side, but not necessarily all, is not working. Witnessed at the authoritative levels (the conduct of government in parliamentary debates) & also at the grassroots level (evident at protests). A remembering and nurturing of diversity, which is life-promoting. What we need most is to preserve respectful discussion & debate.
The only thing from the more destructive behaviours culminates in calls for control by political & lawful pressure, inventing more definitions, labels & legislation. Those very rules & boundaries only separate us further.
The old adage of 'divide & conquer' is alive and festering.
My vision of change is a slower transition and progress, where we can do a better job of not infringing nor creating splits in society and, more importantly, leave no single entity/corporation at the helm of imposing further controls on the people or our future.
Here is an articulate and encompassing talk by Dr. Gabor Mate examining our 'connections', individual and societal, to chronic diseases and social structures,
to how our "normal' current systems, which are blatantly not working nor something we should measure ourselves or our worth by.
With representation from all faculties and levels of society, we must look more broadly and holistically, encouraging the inquiries, reassessment and reimagination of our current situation, giving inquiry and respectful debate credence, validity and value above the fast-tracking, cutthroat profiteering model.
The Power of Connection & the Myth of Normal
by Dr Gabor Mate.
Why is this content in my journal…
Part of my art practice is analysing the world we inhabit,
the self, our connections and the structures surrounding us.
On a conscious and subconscious level,
I attempt to meld resonating insights & feelings into my work.
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