I read the above quote by the Catch-22 author earlier; a friend wrote his response.
A soundtrack to that response, a 39-second interlude by my alien alter ego:
(Cryogenically speaking, it’s better to cry)
To ignore uncomfortable reality and dismiss all talk of it as ‘negativity’ is seen as a practice of ‘positivity’ by people who adhere to a culture so weak and so doomed that its members will fantasize about the Law of Attraction all day, without any awareness that by valuing willful ignorance in their lives, they are only attracting more and more ignorance to themselves (not positivity) and thereby directly contributing to and ensuring the continuance of that very darkness which they naively believe themselves to be ‘above’ and ‘too good for’.
This is why fear must be checked, can't be allowed to just run amok, because it takes over the mind real fast and makes it weak and nonsensical.
Talk about a delusion and decay of spiritual wellbeing masquerading as ‘love and light’. The death of sincere curiosity and courage. No faith purporting to be All Faith.
It was neither possible nor necessary.
~ Nadim Jamal, Canadian friend met on FB; someone I used to talk to almost every day during 2020 (soon after I woke up to the harsh truths of our world) and into 2021, before I founded Sane Francisco (at which point my whole life was taken up with my trying to Hashtag Stay Sane duties).
It was sweet how we always ended our messenger conversations with ✨🙏🏾✨.
NDJ, we had the best conversations and we will resume soon,
love MPX
✨🙏🏾✨
(I hate it when people say "THIS" to emphasize they love something but here I am doing something I usually hate) "THIS":
"they are only attracting more and more ignorance to themselves (not positivity) and thereby directly contributing to and ensuring the continuance of that very darkness which they naively believe themselves to be ‘above’ and ‘too good for’.
Going deep is a lost art. We need to find it. Setting up a search team ...