Sometimes creating “discomfort” with the status quo, as Jesus did in his day, is a good thing. But also it can get you killed. As he also demonstrated.
History is filled with books and people that have either torn — or healed — society.
“Status quo” and “just carrying on” is not the recipe—for either tearing, or healing.
Known as “the two bibles of the Left”… both published in 1971, “Steal This Book” and “Rules for Radicals” raised imagination, and razed norms in that hippy yippy tippy generation.
Abbie Hoffman in his book (I used Abbie’s recipe for a smoke bomb in my college dormitory, bringing multiple firetrucks to the scene. Oops.) advocated for individualist chaos and lifestyle rebellion.
Saul Alinsky dropped his shrewd psychological warfare system in “Rules for Radicals” with a doctrine of disciplined organization for destroying adversaries, in the pragmatic pursuit of revenge, self-preservation, and power. “Whatever it takes, the end justifies the means.” This book has been a favorite of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and many others, for years. Hillary wrote her thesis on Saul, and Prof. Obama taught Alinsky’s doctrines in college, in Chicago.
In the photo below, you will see the discomfort of 21st-century religion to needed Change, if said attendance-based religion is merely based on ego, ritual, symbolism, habit, comfort, schedules, love of the world system, clergy-hierarchy, money, budgets, pride, or laziness—rather than growing and healing and changing the world for him.
“We have never done it that way,“ “the old is better, the old is better,“ “we all live in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine,” “but what about Aunt Bea, God rest her soul, are you saying…”.
The experiment as we have known it for decades and centuries is showing its cracks and flaws, and fatigue is becoming failure. It’s not that hard to see.
Are we willing to go back to the Beginning and reevaluate?
Humans with something to lose can sometimes react very poorly to “losing their knight.” At that point there is a choice to make. Turn to Abbie Hoffman and Saul Alinsky to get tested revenge strategies. Or go forward with humility and honesty, and question what we’ve been told by “the whisper game.” https://lnkd.in/eZy4dwNp
If we are going to grow, and heal, we have to welcome the challenge to status quo— our normative, comfortable, socially acceptable lifestyle, and religion.
How do you get to being a better “you“? It’s not going to just happen by itself. How do We get better together? Here is the Designer’s answer…
SystemOrEcosystem.com
