Psychological manipulation is a type of social influence that aims to change the perception or behavior of others through underhanded, deceptive, or even abusive tactics. This is societys weapon of choice. The quote in the artwork below is from John Trudell. As we begin to close up another year, I would like to share more of his words in the hopes that we can ponder solutions to make next year a better year for our children. I am listing a link to the source of the interview at the bottom of this post. Here are his words: Now, think if we liked ourselves, and understand it’s okay to like ourselves. Maybe we don’t like everything we’ve done, but it’s okay to like ourselves, and to understand and use the gift of our intelligence to see clearly and coherently. Then we will generate clarity and coherency to the people we interact with. See, that’s power. That’s the power that the colonizing state does not want us to recognize, and that’s all of us. It doesn’t want any of the people it claims as citizens to recognize the reality of their power. I think things like this need to be thought about, and then we let that help us figure out how we’re going to go, because in the end it boils down to we’re never going to outfight the oppressor without becoming the oppressor, but the reality is we can out think them, but they don’t want us to understand that. We’ve been programmed to not like ourselves and to react emotionally with our angers and frustrations, which doesn’t allow us to think and see clearly so they can maintain the situation. Race and culture is a part of the identity but we no longer identify as human beings, we identify as the race part or the gender part. Identifying as a human being is the way it was with our ancestors. We need to see ourselves and recognize ourselves, because whatever the problems is that we are confronted with, whatever it may be, a personal problem, society problem, generational problem, whatever the problem is, the solution is about the energy we put into it. Life is about energy. Everything is about energy. Thinking is energy. Everything is about energy in this reality that we live in. Life is about the energy that we put into it. When you have a problem it needs a solution. The energy that we take and put into the solution is the energy that’s going to be in that solution. If fear-anger are used in the solution then the solution is going to have fear-anger in it, and therefore we didn’t change anything. goodmenproject/featured-content/good-man-conversation-john-trudell-human-kerj/
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 07:36:47 +0000