Mass Killing in Vancouver: Who Is To Blame?

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-accused-in-vancouver-festival-vehicle-attack-was-under-mental-health/  

A man in his early thirties, drove his car over pedestrians who were at the Lapu Lapu festival last Saturday.  Certitified mentally ill some time ago, he got into a black car, drove into the pedestrian centre of the Festival in downtown Vancouver. This was a festival of celebration, the achievements of immigrants.

Could it be this man was offered money and use of a glossy car to disrupt the event from a white supremacist group, or a group of billionaires who hate immigrants, or males who hate the gentle expressions of gratitude?

Could it be the way young men are taught to MAN UP, to not show any feelings for fear of appearing vulnerable, shut down his own feelings to the extent he exploded. Could it be that feelings of any kind are a threat to his sense of success?

What about false machismo? What does it look like? When a gang  decide to beat up one of their schoolmates. What courage does it take when it's four against one unsuspecting target?

And could it be all these things collapsing together was simply too much?

How well do humans process stress? Looking tough or strong, saying the right things, developing self esteem against all the let downs is not an easy task in a modern world.

Masculinity is in trouble. The leader of a powerful nation attempts to call it back. Making general insults to other leaders. Making it illegal for girls to go outside the home without a male escort, blaming attractive women for a man's failure to find a mate and the status quo that indicates only wealthy men attract women.

Our current world, in public social media portrays a capitalism like the monster it can be when the gap between haves and have-nots widens and public participation is underfunded and ignored by media who are focused on bling.

Only the beautiful as identified by influencers, can be shown, everything else is rubbish.

In short this means you are either at the top or you are nothing. This is a deeply shallow idea and happy people would never claim this, but capitalism is so focused on money it trashes lives and teaches the masses to trash all that is beyond the economy.

This is a mental illness, a society destroying pursuit yet so much of it destroys lives, nature as well as the economy. LIFE IS VULNERABLE.

There You Go Little 4 year Old Girl

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You are in jail because your world has been taken over by those who love power more than the life of humanity. You are too young to be guilty. But this world loves power more than the life of others. It is ruled by men to claim to win by killing the most.

Death is like a bank account for the highest rulers like Kings, Bankers, Capitalists and Gangs. Their narrative would not admit to this but at the tender age of four you know it.

It starts with gangs taking over nations. Its upheld by media who claim to be criticizing it although their posts read more like WOW, OOPH and TAKE THAT!

You, little girl are guilty of being female and homeless. This attack on you is really about the politics of making decency redundant. Hitler, Stalin, Capitalism, Misogyny and Machismo are all in favour of seeing little girls cry even if their names are not mentioned. Unfortunately for no fault of your own you were born into a world that celebrates cruelty on those who have no power. As if the trinkets of power are cars, guns, muscle and diamonds.

It takes great wealth to achieve a state of brainless conscience, society without integrity.

 

Once upon a time

there was an institution who believed that doing the right thing was the reason for being there.

Anyone can cave to threats and survive personally but can we as a species survive the accumulative destruction of self interest at the cost of the vulnerable. 

Inner Rage Turns me Into Lard

I know there are times when my behaviour doesn't help anyone not even me. The lard I become is solid, not melted. There are family and friends who care about me and who I care about, but in times like these I feel I want to disappear, disintegrate and fly away but not hurt those I love. How can I be the enemy or better yet, the teacher to this mood. 

How can I use this time, these days, to reach out, to understand, to help heal the world?

How can we humans stop the violence of misinformation. (1) the headlines in the newspaper (2) the opinions of family and friends (3) our bank accounts which include only the money have in the bank (4) while the abilities within the mind and heart of each living animal are mostly unknown.

This is to say - our future depends on what and where we choose to engage humanity.

We Nearly Had It Right ... but

There were times when I felt we (humanity) might survive. Yes we have mostly got it wrong but up until 1933 a new trend in human nature spilled out. No, Hitler and his fans were seen and warned about but then somehow managed to over take Germany, a nation that prior to WWII we thought were smart and rational then fell in love with power. Not to say that before the 19th century we did not crave power. Henry 6th decided it was too easy to blame women who were tortured into submission.

When Henry 8th came to power we learned that might makes right. It didn't, it just meant you could be burned at the stake just for challenging the throne. 

Someone else then saw that the Jews were good scapegoats because most people didn't know much about Judaism. 

It was a time when we could make it up as we go along. Forget how Jews were a stabling society, much wiser than the magical thinking of Christianity. Even Jesus couldn't be blamed for what came after his torturous murder.

We should have got it then. Seen the future of humanity in the Messiah's death. But no we believed it was God's will, to teach how  God loved us he sacrificed his only begotten son.  Did anyone think to ask Mary first? The Jews were too smart to fall for that.

Then the Romans found a way to release their guilt by making tons of money from this new religion. We humans were gullible when we assumed wealth was simply God's blessing.

Patriarchy was very smart when  when it inserted itself in the bible to reveal that Adam was obedient while Eve thought she could get away with a few apples from the Garden of Eden. So childbirth became painful to punish Eve and all women said the bishop I met when I was pregnant with my first child.

This meant, although Eve gave birth, she was not the Mother of Jesus, and was to be punished for stealing the apple and so would suffer pain in the process to remind all women that Eve was not a good obedient woman and certainly not the mother of the Messiah. While man was the father, Eve was a disobedient surrogate mother. 

Moving forward to the 6th century women were tortured until they admitted they were witches. Then many were burned when they confessed. This meant that women were scapegoats now. Eve's little oversight was no longer needed.

Christianity became a religion for good men instructed to keep control of their wives. This was very useful because no matter how much violence they perpetrated it was always the wife's fault. No matter how many virgins were raped, it was because of the woman's power over good men, tempting them with their charms. Time for another witch hunt.

Also white men were encouraged to travel to other lands and take it from those who were there and had been there for centuries. With the help of the Catholic church young children were taken away from their mothers and abused until they forgot their own language and original families. 

Britain was a small country at first then they learned how to steal land from others, silence them and their language and call ourselves conquerors.

In all these cases people became civilized by apologizing for their sins and expecting civilization to calm our previous habits. Then recently we learned how even in America we were not always good.

History, religion and feminism were not enough to make society fair and perfect. African Americans were treated with lynches, and other means of keeping the white man pure white. In spite of the panic and fear of replacement, the fear of feminism, and the fear of apologizing for our sins.

The next messiah must be a man who hates women, people of colour and socialism. We must embrace a man who thinks America can be great by power alone. Settle for love of power instead of compassion for living beings. Are we any better than bears and pigs?

a sweet permission

 

 

a sweet permission when the world hums so damn loud when it rushes, clatters, spills over, messy when the sky seems too full of voices, chaotic when the road stretches long, uncaring and unkind it’s okay to just pause, stop explore the hush between the heavys say hello to your breath indwelling, singing within your ribs like a bird trembling you must have forgotten you were holding way too tight inhale the whispering hush, the small kindness of spirit-air exhale the weight you were never meant to carry alone it’s too easy to forget that you are more than the rush more than the noise, more than the world pressing in let this be your sweet permission to pause, to soften, surrendering to exist without any demand to just breathe kindly, just be —weaver x 💨©️’25 above photo ‘goddess fly by’ by weaver, taken at the Raptor Centre in Duncan, BC Share

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