My prediction for the new year, is that lines will start getting drawn in the sand, defining who is willing to stand in solidarity and who is caught up in self serving patterns. More and more in recent discussions of power and oppression dynamics, the subject has come up of what it means to use the privilege inequitably distributed amongst individuals within our society responsibly- specifically what it means to be given a lions’ share of resources in comparison with your neighbors and be given a choice between engaging in self-serving patterns or infusing your privilege into your community. Hero complexes run rampant in our society, and the feeling that we each as individuals are responsible for saving the world is essential to capitalism for two reasons - 1, we are not superheroes and, when paired with that truth, egotistical internalized beliefs that we can make societal change alone keep us locked in essential spirals of despair rather than making progress against oligarchical oppressive industry. 2, it reinforces internally within society the narcissistic patterns of white supremacist culture that keep us oppressing each other by thinking we know better, or that we ARE better. Until people with privileged power are consciously relinquishing control of that privilege to the people who have been disenfranchised by this power structure, no change will be made to the power structure. And though many of us know that there are enough resources to go around if we were to properly organize, the internalized scarcity mindset and the hero complexes rule our unconscious mind. Remember. A powerful person could maybe survive a hollow life alone in the woods. But a strong person who puts some of their power into service of their community, gets to live a life surrounded by music, art, and love. . . .
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