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Un-doing dominance - male/female, white/non-white, heterosexual/non-heterosexual. This is perhaps the largest process being undertaken by the world.
Everyone knows what stages are. The terrible twos and so on. Far fewer know the powerful - and sometimes dangerous as well as liberating - stages people go through on the journey to a society with equality between women and men, people of all races, people of all sexual orientations. Stages - there are five powerful stages that both those in the oppressed, and those in the dominant, tend to go through.
Secrets come in, as at each stage, different things are secret. For example, in a traditional dominant/oppressed society, it's a secret that women and men actually have very similar abilities (perhaps not identical, but equal). The psychological forces holding the dominance/oppression (massive oppressed rage, fear and shame) are also secret.
Stages and secrets - this is core to understanding many of the upheavals of the past 2 centuries - starting from the French Revolution, going on to the civil rights movement, feminism and gay rights.
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Secrets of the West-
The West currently is keeping many secrets from itself.
We're supposed to trust our gut. Not about this. That's secret one.
The second secret: there are powerful new taboos, not present even 20 years ago. Not even discussed on Oprah. Oprah may have, one one show, 200 men dealing with sexual abuse. She does not deal with these secrets.
14 secrets have been identified so far.
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Western Weaknesses -
Good thinking in the West - more taboo than incest.
Some call it political correctness. But what is it? Why is it? What are common consequences? Especially how is it dangerous?
And what can be done?
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Good Thinking vs Popular Blocked Thinking -
Critical thinking is supposed to be the new buzzword in education. Yet at the same time, so many students are taught, "All opinions are equal." "You are where you are meant to be (killed by a drunk driver, etc)." "All religions and cultures are equal." "Everything happens for a reason."
One can take apart bad thinking. But that is, in many ways, like taking a magnet away from metal. It is likely to pop right back against the metal - unless something is done to demagnetize, or in this case, unless something is done with what's under the un-thinking.
Several parts to this talk:
Common un-thinkings - and easy ways of looking logically.
Ways of lessening the power of the un-thinkings.
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Making Sense of What Doesn't Make Sense -
If something seems not to make sense, I need to explore.
A few years ago, a small cartoon was published in a small Danish publication - and a huge fuss ensued. Millions upon millions of Muslims marched worldwide - when they had not marched about the murders of thousands o Muslims by Muslims in the name of the Muslim religion.
What is going on, I asked?
When I was 7, I read a story of a god who preferred the brother who killed animals to the brother who did not. That, likewise, did not make sense to me.
Making sense (figuring out what is going on) of what doesn't make sense (in terms of sanity) - that is a powerful impetus for me to keep something in mind, start digging, explore, try to understand.
I've never come to agree with the god I read about at 7 - but I've come to a better understanding of the people who created such a god.
Over and over, I have cared to make sense - understand what is going on - when something
doesn't seem to make sense.
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- The Power -
of Passionate and Intelligent Conviction
Sojourner Truth - United States, mid nineteenth-century.
Nelson Mandela - South Africa - 1980's to the present.
Rick Hodes - Ethiopia - 1990-present.
Three very different people, but each can be seen as ahead of their time, and yet able to reach many others caught in rigid and bigoted, and/or less caring mindsets.
What enabled them to be effective? - in their tone, attitude, arguments, thinking, language used?
For example, Sojourner Truth, a former slave, was speaking for the equality of women and blacks, to largely white anti-equality audiences. Yet she swayed many in her audiences. Why? One thing: in many ways, she used the same "language" as her listeners (Biblical, religious), even as she was countering many of their beliefs.
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- Tiptoeing Through Silences -
My personal journey of tiptoeing (and occasionally exploding), over 2 decades, into ever greater speech and perception.
All the topics above will be touched upon, but here the thread is my slow journey, from things briefly glimpsed and forgotten (including in childhood), to tentative perceptions, to tentative speech, to massive research, to writing, to discovering ever more, onward and onward. A never-ending journey into increasing awareness and increasing reaching out to others.
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- The Cassandra Syndrome vs Mandela Magic -
I start with the Cassandra Syndrome - and move on to re-visioning that old myth.
Cassandra - a Trojan vestal virgin who knew the wooden horse built by he Greeks (now known as the Trojan horse) was a nasty Greek trick. She could not get her fellow citizens to listen.
The outcome: Troy was destroyed, most of her fellow citizens were murdered, she herself was raped and enslaved.
The question: is there any way the outcome could have been different?
Several options are explored for breaking the curse that held her. Several other models are looked at - especially Mandela Magic, the magic of someone imprisoned for twenty-seven years, who yet did get listening and political power.
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