Noxious Gratitude

Staying Awake ezine makes itself available to aid the success in one’s progress. The appropriateness for giving thanks is first to ask ‘who were we?’ as a nation ruled by an egregore, a ruling group mind, and to frame that question in the most recent six years’ erosion of USA Constitution.

In these very days, clear thinking for knowing when and why to express gratitude has become important: it’s not uncommon that what we are thankful for progresses into what we stand for, indeed, in times of war. I’m grateful to have found this quote; it rather distinguishes when thankfulness may be apropos…

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.
~ James Kern Feibleman (b 1904), psychiatrist, author, philosopher

If I hadn’t been reared in evangelical circles, then I wouldn’t be so sensitive to the functional psychosis that comes out of being trained literally ‘in every thing give thanks.’ That toxic, noxious platitude of gratitude was reportedly an instruction from the apostle Paul to the early church in Thessalonica. Refer King James 1611 version.

The group mind, which represses citizenries’ feelings and wants for peace, continues today by many good natured and well trained christian evangelicals and fundamentalists, robotically repeating scriptural platitudes and bearing smiles, spreading noxious gratitude for all things to (godly) friends and partners within enterprises and organizations that embrace an armageddon. It seems the evangelist Paul was as much a role model for psychotic pious ideas as today’s virulent religious types in offices of USA governance.

Our constant curiosity is key
to watching what’s being created.
~ David Moorhead