**TLDR (Too-Long-Didnt-Read) summary at the bottom. A bunch of people requested one.
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I personally support much of what my activist friends post online about, or highlight, within the political framings from which they infer or speak.

It’s partially why they are friends, here in my echo chamber I guess.

All the same, for myself, these ‘political overton’ framings can sometimes feel too populist, historically narrowed, troped, absolutist, and therefore unwittingly and psychologically fixated and polarising. (Unwittingly weaponised by systems we do not comprehend).

This, for me at least, is systemically indicative of the psycho-somatically hijacked systems at least some of us seek over the long term, to resist, reorganise and therefore culturally regenerate.

Years ago, I was often posting about gen0cides and massacres, including just north of Australia. They were always completely ignored, and never shared, liked or commented on, which could have boosted their algorithmic reach.

For myself, whilst unequivocally important, the sole focus on the graphic spectacles, which have been going on long before Oct 7th (eg. livestreaming of entire palest1nian neighbourhoods blown up in a flash by preplanted demolition explosives), villains or figureheads (eg. one of thousands of blackmail operatives like Jeffrey Epstein), or one of endless systemic robberies (eg. 5 trillion dollars extracted from the middle class through lockdowns)… is ultimately THE so called ongoing psychological operation or “psy-op” that so many people increasingly use the label of.

The ‘hyperNormalisation’ and by extension ever increasing fear, division and confusion. Enabling many questionable (not so democratic) dynamics to continue unabated, ignored and unresisted.

All of this current wave of livestreamed, therefore SUBJECTIVE violence, indeed needs to be resisted, goes without saying of course.

But IMO, what few of us seem to highlight or comprehend, is that this resistance itself, very often gets hijacked, exploited and even propagandised and socially engineered covertly.

So the implicit OBJECTIVE violence of the ravenous looping consumeristic infrastructures of our economic system at large, continues unchanged and ignored as a consequence.

Problem, Reaction, Exploit, “Solution”, Rinse, Repeat … dynamics are often covertly utilised by endless corrupt bought and sold governments.

This incessant, immediate and subjective violence, on some levels at least, unwittingly becomes a convenient deflection and distraction from the very entrenched dynamics of the system that literally drives (stages and manufactures) these horrific events.

The villainous populist figureheads and the hegemonic and reactive violences that so many rightfully highlight.

“The medium is the message”.

I personally intuit that this subjective violence is as manufactured by the medical~military industrial complex, as it is in equal part, in an exploitative feedback loop with our collective (increasingly globalised and homogenised) shadows.

I feel we need to pull the lense out systemically to its biopolitical infrastractures, whilst simultaneously resharpening the same lens on our own nervous systems and sensoriums.

If we dont do this in holistic tandem, it will always somehow go astray, and become some kind of violence or exploitative trap again.

Our literal libidinal creative energy and attention, which is algorithmically quantised and routinely “loosh harvested” as desensitising fear, terror, sometimes violent virtue signaling.

One beautiful passionate friend on here wrote today that “The battlefield is democracy itself”…?

With loving respect, I don’t ultimately think so, the battlefield is now, more than ever, our personal and collective nervous systems / consciousness, regardless of what kind of semiotic and ideological political system we live in.

Our biology, our neurology, our so called subconscious, is increasingly being turned into commodified and coerced real estate, for mega corporations and their militaries (they pretend not to command) to fight over, and gain strategic and resourceful dominance over.

The label “democracy” doesn’t even begin to account for much of these miltarised and technologically disruptive bio-dynamics.

But it potentially could one day…?

IMO, we don’t really even live in a democracy.

Most of us IMO, whom I have a tiny social reach to, actually live in a “Crony Capitalist, Captured, Corrupt Representative Republic”.

Democracies are intrinsically participatory at an individual level.

Whilst our cultural systems have progressively veered sloooowly and steadily left-ward on many fronts over the last 2000 years.

This 5000 year old indo-european war-machine still has a strong stranglehold.

This system is far from lived, sensed, and participatory, and far from direct (real-time) referendum.

It is also far from a lived and very personal connection to our labour and time-energy in general.

Participation, such as this very facebook post for example, is lucratively captured, contained, and the (meta)data is parsed, on-sold, weaponised and commoditised by mega-corporations, with their ever growing surveillance and AI systems.

There is a giant psychic intersubjective relational sphere to all of this, but I’ll get into that on another rant.

These systems are increasingly directly influentially merging with our our own neurological (mis)firings, and on some levels, this is only getting started.

This unacknowledged and not very comprehended technocratic “battleground” and neuro – capitalist landscape, of our literal mind(bodies), where very crassly speaking, our brains are becoming guns pointed at other brains with a degree of complexity which is impossible to comprehend consciously.

Whilst kind of true, but only in some pretty narrow senses, collectively believing “democracy was shot in the head” on Nov 22nd 1963 with John F Kennedy, could also unwittingly be fueled by the widespread globalised american exceptionalism attitudes which steered and propagandised us into this hypernormalised violence mess in the first place.

With our own historically / popularly enculturated and entrenched narcissistic traits, we are still sooooo collectively fixated on American (styled) cowboy figureheads, therefore reinforcing their mass marketed power, backed by the most successful (hollywood / algorithmic) propaganda machine in living history… to somehow rescue us, save us, or at least do the right thing “for” us.

“This time will be different !!” has been playing like a broken record from before 1963.

And has only accelerated since peak oil and peak infrastructural “stealing from the future” driven (un)sustainability around 1972.

IMO, these polarising figureheads and their (anti)hero populism, is exemplary in large part, of the hijacked “Human Terrain Systems”, so very few will even begin to attempt to engage or comprehend.

Militarily weaponised anthropology, sociology and neuroscience, (mis)firing in everyone’s neurologies.

Even more so if you are dependent on technocapitalist devices.

I’ve been attempting to grok and track this shit for many years, and I still feel like I’ve barely begun. But I also don’t believe full intellectual comprehension is key.

Our low attention span addiction, coupled with our unwillingness to hold opposing, let alone multi-polar views at once (intelligence), to be right and wrong at the same time (humility), and to not allow ourselves to fall into all too easily exploited hatred and venom (integration of ones own wounded projecting ego)… all becomes quietly and covertly weaponised by forces we do not understand… let alone desire to understand… let alone slow down to stand consciously in, gauging and tracking ourselves within, and therefore without.

If we did collectively understand (stand consciously in) these forces and infrastructural intelligences, much of this violence we’ve found ourselves in, simply would not happen.

We simply wouldn’t allow it, and we would collectively walk treachorous sociopaths out of parliaments, and violent polluting corporations would literally be put in freeze jail, if not dismantled and recapitulated overnight.

But this all continues relatively unabated when we collectively default to hypervigilance, hysteria, projection and fixation as a default cultural operating and (not) sensing system.

Another simplistic example.

Notice how the anti-war movement literally died over night, when Barack Obama was installed, or apparently voted in…?

Somebody apparently representing an oppressed minority finally had the reigns, so its ok now, let’s forget about it! He will do all the necessary work, whilst the rest of us go back to our personal obsessions and unchecked addictions. (The system).

The anti-war (therefore in large part anti social engineering) movement has only picked up steam again recently, with the advent of livestreaming war crimes and the graphic suffering of their fighters and victims.

I guess I’m just hopefully constructively highlighting my own wariness of the consequences of ONLY focusing (often with counter productive overwhelm) on the current ongoing subjectivity of narratives and events. Without justifying them one iota, they have been going on for centuries and in many ways, eons.

This subjective focus, fixation, political framing can easily fall into the (objective systemic) expense of hindering self and collective social change, personal and communal bio-regionalist participation, and the very necessary personal and collective shadow work of internalised world systems and attitudes awareness, bringing to light our own tracked and economically situated violence, unwitting unacknowledged complicity, and routinely / profitably exploited trauma responses.

Thanks for reading!

Sending love to you all, whatever your narrative, ideology, trauma, plight or opinion.

Feel free to respond, but I genuinely don’t have much time or energy for replies currently, so no guarantees on that.

Back to life/work now.

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**TLDR:

There are many forms of largely unquestioned systematic violence exploding like a slow motion nuclear bomb across the landscape through our technocratic systems and mind~bodies.

Beyond the subjectively experienced horrors. The politics we are culturally conditioned to believe we perceive in the world, are ultimately the very same politics frozen into our body~minds as socially normalised (status anxious) yet costly fight, flight, freeze, fawn beLIEfs and patterns.

If we are desensitised, we are very easy to weaponise and manipulate by systems we do not understand.