Never Stop Being Shocked By The Depravity Of The Empire by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2023-11-23 at 16:44:49 )

Never Stop Being Shocked By The Depravity Of The Empire by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

If you are still finding yourself shocked and shaken by the actions of our rulers, that is a very healthy sign. It means they have not got you yet.

A friend of mine shared my article about how the Biden administration is worried the pause in fighting will allow journalists into Gaza to show Israels crimes to the world, saying he knows he should not be surprised by how evil these freaks are but somehow he still is.

I told him I actually consciously cultivate the ability to stay surprised by such things. If you stop being surprised when you see the worlds most powerful people always finding new and innovative ways to make the world a worse place for ordinary human beings, it means it is become normalized in your system in some way. It means that on top of all the other horrible evils they have inflicted upon our world, they have also managed to steal an important part of your humanity.

No longer being shocked by the murderousness of the empire is a counterintuitive sign that something unhealthy is happening to you, like when the body stops shivering as it sinks into the later stages of hypothermia, or when the hunger pangs go away in the later stages of starvation.

It is a sign that your system is no longer forcefully rejecting conditions it ought to reject, and has instead shifted into giving up and trying to conserve energy.

I spend all day every day staring into the ugliest parts of the imperial machine, but I refuse to let it desensitize me!!

These monsters have taken so very, very much from the world, and I refuse to let them take that too. I refuse to let them rob me of my humanity like that!

I see it as a sacred duty to keep a flame lit in myself which knows what a healthy world looks like, which knows what sanity looks like, which knows how things ought to be, and which naturally finds it jarring when the sickness of this civilization reveals itself!!

I refuse to accept this as normal. I refuse to let the abuses of the empire turn me into a callused, jaded husk of a human who can only respond to each new monstrosity with a deep world-weary sigh.

I make sure it still brings up a white hot rage in me. I make sure it still brings white hot tears to my eyes!!

You can not let them take that from you!!

You can not let them harden your heart and darken your eyes!!

We have got to keep the flame burning for a sane and healthy world, if not for ourselves then for our children, and for future generations who we will never meet!!

If you are still finding yourself shocked and shaken by the actions of our rulers, that is a very healthy sign. It means they have not got you yet. It means they have not succeeded in snuffing out your flame!!

We have got to protect our sensitivity at all costs!

We have got to maintain that visceral rejection of madness, because that is what is calling us home!

That is what is calling us home to a healthy world!

That is what will guide our way as we fight our way there, one small, almost-insignificant victory at a time!

If they have not yet snuffed out your flame today, that is one more small win for humanity!

That is one more tiny step toward health!

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