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Greetings All,
You’ve noticed the background to Staying Awake has changed? I’ve been noticing eye strain recently, so I thought we all could cut down on strain by replacing a mostly white screen with a darker background. I hope the change makes a difference for your eyes.
I’m practicing inclusion, and it’s not as easy as you might imagine. Being inclusive means considering anything that comes our way—all intentions, possibilities, tendencies—not dismissing anything until we must. These are not the days to dismiss something just because it doesn’t seemingly match what we’ve been trained to believe, or what we’ve been trained to dismiss.
This ezine does not take the path of least resistance. Being resistant keeps us circling the airport with the same old unquestioned assumptions without choosing the option of landing to check out other ideas. It appears Staying Awake intends staying awake for and curious about airports that aren’t too close to home.
There’s so much fascinating information on Internet, I didn’t know my focus until I began seeing evidence during my research for this ezine. Here I was sitting at the hardy computer, using my imagination to list random things for opening our imaginations to other considerations.
Voila! Perception altered and I gawked in “Surprise!” after receiving a double exposed image someone distributed in an email. The image shows us that we may frame our perception with the notion that little if anything is as it appears. At first blush, I felt something a wee bit strange in the picture.
You’ll first see Albert Einstein, then, moving back from your screen about four feet, it’ll probably be impossible to miss the likeness of Marilyn Monroe.
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Would you have known to study the image above had I not mentioned its oddness? (Did you notice Marilyn needed a shave?) At first glance, our perception might not match the intuition we’re also experiencing. That’s a signal nudging us to remember not knowing something exists doesn’t exclude a possibility of its existence.
When attempting to include all knowable possibilities, we discover one possibility is similar to, yet unlike, any other possibilities, thusly creating more possibilities for ambiguous perceptions.
Creating newer perceptions out of which to view our worlds and refine our cosmologies precisely helps us realize little if anything is as it appears; perceptions of ideas and ideologies are layered, unfolding simultaneously around the planet, unconcealing another consciousness for Earthlings. Altering thoughts of exclusion by attempting inclusion of possibilities might become annoying for some, and freeing for others.
Aesthetic Beauty in Fractals
After receiving the Einstein-Monroe image, amazingly enough, I then stumbled upon a video describing a fractal, which is an aesthetic design composed of miniature copies or near copies of itself. Those copies are called self similarities, a term coined by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975. Refer Wikipedia
Aesthetics in fractals sometimes look similar to galaxies, clouds, mountain ranges, trees, rivers with lakes, waterfalls, lightning bolts, coastlines, and snow flakes. This video without music or voiceover, only captions, shows a colorful example of a fractal called the Mandelbrot as well as its multiple sets generated by a simple mathematical formula. Duration 2.50
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As metaphor, a fractal might represent an unexpressed, perceived idea first as a peculiar intuition (as if thinking Einstein’s photo seemed somehow peculiar). The fractal could then be reinterpreted into a self similarity of perceptions of beauty (once seeing Marilyn’s hidden likeness).
Staying awake to perceptions helps remind us that our species’ anxieties offer imperative options from which to choose without knowing for sure the outcomes. Within a society at any given times, in any geographical locations, we are already lost if assuming a society as a single fractal. We err by eliminating inclusion of self similarities—choices and outcomes—within all possible worlds: potentially eliminating possibilities for binding perceptions and behaviors to personal responsibility of outcomes.
Tough Disguise for Guys
What we know that we don’t know is one thing, and quite another wondering what possibilities we don’t know that we don’t know. Too many times, men do not know nor want to talk about perceptions they’ve grown up with, nor how those perceptions are hurting them and their relations with others.
Which perceptions have you noticed that boys and girls in USA have about themselves? Do you engage your kiddos to discover how they perceive the people around them? How do children receive information from which they create perceptions for masculinity?
In the USA, many boys put on a tough disguise borne in violence, obligingly solicited in media, and the outcomes are too many times severely unpleasant both mentally and physically. Young men are trained early on that ‘a real man’ means they must take on only certain parts of themselves that the dominant culture has defined as manly.
We can know those qualities by listening to young men themselves. They say a real man is physical, strong, independent, powerful, intimidating, independent, in control, rough, scares people, respected, hard, a stud, athletic, muscular, tough, Tough, TOUGH. ¹
It turns out wuss, wimp, fag, sissy are insults to keep boys psychically boxed in. If you’re a boy, it’s pretty clear there’s a lot of pressure to conform, to put up the act to be just ‘one of the guys.’
Where do boys learn this? They are trained from families and communities, but one of the most important ways is through the powerful and pervasive media systems, which provide steady streams of images equating manhood to dominance, power, and control particularly in some professional sports.
The following demonstrates a result of a manly training of the male gender. Here’s a man who did something without thinking about the results. Sound familiar? Male dominance notwithstanding, too many times men remind other men that it’s okay to lie, and to pass blame to someone else. By way of a tip, describe the mixed messages observed in this behavior. In which situations might little boys think it’s okay to lie and pass blame? Duration 50 seconds
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Manliness crosses all racial and ethnic groups, but even more pronounced for men of color; there’s so little diversity of images for them in media. Latino men are almost always presented as boxers, criminals, tough guys in the barrio; Asian-American men are disproportionally portrayed as violent martial artists or criminals.
Calling attention to the ways masculinity is connected to these problems is not anti-male—it’s being honest about men’s and boys’ lives. We know that much violence is cyclical; many boys abused as children grow up as perpetrators themselves. There are millions of pleasant and intelligent males walking around, men who were bullied and traumatized as adolescents. Abused physically or sexually as children, thousands more men and boys are assaulted or perish every year usually by other men.
Women have been at the forefront of change by talking about how women and girls will benefit from males’ transformed lives. Too many men commit shameful levels of violence against females of any age; although, statistically, targets of men’s violence has been other males. All men have a great work in front of them for dealing with challenges created for our imaginations by media-skewed perceptions of manliness.
Boys into Insolvency
Other than found in history and philosophy books, is there a simple list of coercive behaviors by which boys have been trained by men to physically and psychically enslave each other? Or, is there a list of turbulent behaviors by which males perpetuate upset in our species’ societies and civilizations? (I had a moment of “Surprise!” when a list in a video came my way. ²)
When has peace reigned in all societies on Earth, simultaneously? Where is evidence that boys develop into men for corporatocracy while their manhood is emotionally solvent?
The invisible rulers, whose faces we never see on television nor on magazine covers, sell armaments for wars, which they perpetrate within our species’ societies; producing waves of monetary inflations and deflations, time and again, manifested century into century by expertise and designs for rises and declines of civilizations.
With helps from many good journalists and scholars and alternative newscasts on Internet, the rulers know that many citizens are now aware of rulers’ systems and their strategic amoral alliances’ purposes. We stay awake for how those systems’ private tyrannies have over millenniums permeated our species’ psyché, and continuously do so through the military industrial-complex and corporations’ contemporary slavery to global capitalism. Staying Awake keeps asking us men, ‘to what end?’
Invisible financial speculators control visible rulers, those men we do see in media, through centralized banking that dictates visions via psychopathic shills to create moods that will scare leaders in education, industries, militaries, governments, and mass media. Malevolent imperialists in intergenerational families continue regenerating depressions, genocides, plagues, revolutions, and wars to insure their control is invincible. Threatening ultimate altruism is not the speculators’ cups of tea.
By manipulating unlimited currencies, monies mostly made not of paper money and coin but by electronic transactions, unseen rulers enslave populaces; reducing societies to line items on digital accounting sheets, and a civilization to a liability by numerical, computerized creative accounting practices for gains, goals, incentives, targets, and quotas.
In any given societies, in any given times, the results of manly computer games are felt in gradual reductions of societal rights and freedoms into presumed totalitarian states; sovereign activity becomes forbidden. Perceptions of the world become virile veils of ‘freedom for humanity’ from which our species’ actions are watched, controlled, and regulated via a watchful eye of colossal computers.
Invisible masculinized rulers enslave Earthlings with phony histories, mindless entertainments, drugs, indoctrinations, skewed propaganda, mind controls by signs and icons and logos and symbols, greed, disinformation, subliminal messaging, insinuations of defeat and despair and disempowerment and dishonor, false flag operations, food additives, fear, advertising, paranoia, religion, sexism, nationalism, patriotism, terrorism, extortion, repetition.
They steal, lie, cheat, intimidate, bully, befriend, conspire, contradict, confuse, capitulate, deceive, promise, counter-attack, and legislate to take away citizens’ money, freedom, and sovereignty with contracts, arbitrations, laws, codes, acts of interest, bureaucracy, conflicts, crimes, diseases, disasters, divorces, accidents, judgments, credit evaluations, education requirements, panic, rules, recessions, depressions, inflation, insurances, licenses, lawsuits, opportunities, police action, regulations, welfare.
We still wonder how little boys could grow up feelingly insolvent—angry, deceitful, and disrespectful—in this a man’s world in which they are trained?
Our Mind’s Market
For some ten thousand years, yet more some would say, our species’ feelings and perceptions have been psychically manipulated by myriad injustices, compacted into subtle fractals of contradictory insinuations, shoving to and fro female and male Earthlings and our boys and girls. And, seemingly, there’s no end in sight.
Albeit a pleasant experience when we presume we’re free to choose as we wish in local supermarkets. Apparently, our mind’s market doesn’t mind the mining of our minds, allowing our imaginations to be manipulated by packagings, smells, flowers, and layouts of goods.
Notice how easily we Earthlings are persuaded to perform properly in the most innocuous situations. Even the good sense of a master designer of supermarkets can be intercepted, which unconceals rulers’ possibilities for governing global perceptions and behaviors. ³
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