 Let's look at activism.
Let's start with what was for zandtao the most heart-rending activism of recent years - Greta and the Kids  . Every time this is played, zandtao chokes tearfully. As an activist he always complained "where are the kids?". Here, they stood up, and no-one in power made any changes. Whilst some might deride Greta, this was not only Greta standing up - it was a generation and nothing changed. For zandtao it was not a surprise. Greta and many of her generation blamed apathy of elder generations, and this angered zandtao on behalf of all the people whose lives have been dedicated to change. But now the kids know, power does not listen; democracy in the West is a delusion.
Let us examine this delusion further. Throughout the West there is a coordinated move towards populist demagogues, populist thinking, authoritarianism and possibly fascism. In the US there has been a clear response to this with the No Kings marches - last count 28th March 8 million but no response. Some might argue that it is only the current admin that is not listening, but zandtao argues that current democracy is a delusion and this is just an example of a governmental practice of not listening. In the UK the veil of Tory/Labour is under attack from Reform with the populism-akin-to-fascism being on the streets in a Tommy Robinson march (Independent & Sky News). On 28th March in the UK there was a March Together (Guardian and Al Jazeera) - numbers larger than "Unite the Kingdom". It is less clear as to who the British establishment should respond to and how much - but such doubt does not matter as there is no democratic listening.
But the real point is that power is not responding. zandtao listened to discussing the war nobody is stopping, and formatted some of the youtube transcript. This formatting is a process he uses for improving depth, depth is part of inner journey that develops tathata. It is worth taking time to consider depth or as Thich Nhat Hanh called part of it "deep listening". Through academia we are conditioned not to be deep but broad, looking at a plethora of ideas rather than seeing with depth - tathata (Why zandtao uses Pali). zandtao uses references but asks for his work to be read as part of an inner journey rather than skimmed.
Tathata of Fatigue, Helplessness and Pessimism
In attempting to come to terms with activism he is looking at depth - his own depth, what his tathata sees; this DieM25 talk brought clarity to his thinking. Yanis talks of fatigue, helplessness and pessimism - as well as opportunism; let's bring his experience into this view of activism.
Yanis on Fatigue
"5.59 First, fatigue. As Grace said, for decades now, we have been managing to put together gigantic demonstrations; none of them were larger than the ones in 2003 opposing the Iraq war. Millions were out on the streets. It was very clear that almost in every country in Europe there was overwhelming opposition to the invasion of Iraq by George W. Bush and Tony Blair and the rest to that war and yet the demos, the many, were utterly ignored by the very movements and parties that came out of the demos - like the Labour Party."
Yanis on Helplessness and Legacy Media
"7.00 In the last two three years following the genocide, the intensification of the genocide of the Palestinians after October 7th of 2023, I think there is a desperation of the public. We had one demonstration every couple of days for two years. The fatigue gets worse and it is combined with a sense of helplessness. you the the more brutal the machinery of death becomes and the more evident it is on our screens that the genocide is happening, the greater the sense of helplessness that people feel."
"7.40 They're demonstrating time and again, yet the BBC, the legacy media, continue to distort the picture continue to find ways of backing the killing machine of the Israelis - now of the United States in Iran. The manner in which the legacy media have papered over the massacre of the school children, the school girls in Iran. I think that creates an intense sensation of helplessness which makes the experiences of 20 years ago against the Iraq war even more debilitating for people.""
Yanis on Pessimism
"23.24 So the question for me is this. South of where Danae and I are here in Greece, we have a large military base on Crete in Souda. There are aircraft carriers of the United States and there are bombers and so on; similarly, a military base at Ramstein in Germany. Airplanes are leaving from there, they're refueling other aeroplanes, and they are all together bombing into smithereens the Iranian people. In Cyprus, the British base of Akrotiri is being made available by Keir Starmer's government to the Americans and to the Israelis, on the one hand to continue the genocide in Gaza and on the other to bomb the living daylights out of the Iranian people. The question is this, can we begin to imagine our movement effectively shutting these bases down? Winning government and sending a missive to those warmakers, your days are out, your days are gone. You can't take off - not allowing the Americans or the Israelis to use the bases; I'm even saying we are not near doing that. Are we capable of envisioning taking over those leaders of power? If we're not, then I can understand the pessimism.
Coping
Whatever happens in Iran and the Middle East we will have to live with it, the fact that it is not really discussed in the NSS does not bode well (see Year of 2 Hemispheres and 2 hemispheres Addendum). People will have to cope, and the best sort of coping is the path - following our paths is how we are meant to deal with whatever life throws at us.
Grace on Creative Protest
"16.16 Protest is important in that it provides people with not just an outlet for their anger, but a sense of everyone else is annoyed about this. I'm not on my own in that. And it allows for those kind of links to be built that often form the foundations of future political movements. But there's also so many other creative ways that I've seen resistance happening throughout societies all over the world. One thing that immediately came to mind was that when the genocide was at its peak, I spoke to a few people that were setting up these things called apartheid free zones in their cities where they basically organized to go around to all these different shops and say, "Will you participate in our boycott of Israeli goods?" That became this big movement in a few different cities around the UK, and created a real sense of purpose, community and solidarity that fought back against this idea that we can't do anything to challenge these structures from day to day. Obviously we were also going out and protesting and going to those demonstrations in London all the time and raising these issues within political parties but I think providing people with those ways that they can resist in community together is also really important for combating this idea that I'm all alone, the world is screwed, no one else cares, and there's nothing I can do about it."
Avoidance
Above zandtao has quoted Yanis' question on pessimism. The interviewer Mehran did not explore this, and Grace ignored it.
"15.32 But there is another option which is to realize that we're not powerless. We don't have as individuals the capacity to bring down this entire system as much as we might want to; but as a movement we do have power, and that power is evident in the entire history of the left from its very origins. It began in conditions that were much harder than what we're facing right now, both for individuals and for the movement as a whole. The question is:-
How do we turn the sense of powerlessness and the sense of anger and this sense of despair into a solid movement? How do we give people back that sense of agency on the left?"
Grace Campaigning on Affordability Energy and Oligarchy
These are 3 platforms put forward by Zohran Mamdani. What will he achieve? If the 3 platforms are used to build community then New York has a chance. If the 3 platforms are presented within a purpose of overthrowing oligarchy then there is built-in failure and community-building will be lost.
Within her purpose of building "a mass political movement that's capable of transforming society, winning power within the state", this is what Grace said on Affordability Energy and Oligarchy (long so on a separate page). Mostly zandtao supports her economic and political platforms and to use them to build activism and community but will she be able to transform society? For a long time the left has put forward various platforms that will "transform society", and there has been no transformation. People in society have got fed up with these false claims, and have turned to right demagogues. And right demagogues have been used to make things worse.
Isn't it unrealistic to seek this level of transformation of society the way society is now - right or left? What can we do now? The creative protests mentioned above. As a strategy we can use the 3 platforms of affordability, energy and oligarchy to build campaigning through working on creative protests and community projects together.
Pipedreams
The delusion lies in what is the purpose of the movement? Marxism and socialism has the movement overthrowing capitalism through revolution; this has not worked. Delusion has it that fatigue, helpessness and pessimism are temporary down times when the mass movement will rise up and destroy the evil of oligarchy. Is that a real possibility at the moment? Or is it an oft-repeated pipedream?
zandtao also offers a pipedream - when we are all following our paths the world will be wonderful. But don't hold this as a delusory aim or it will become destructive.
Reframing Activism - Community Rebuilding
Tathata - Where things are
We have to begin from where things are - tathata (Why zandtao uses Pali). Oligarchy and power ignores the ecology and Greta and the Kids , ignores No Kings and continues with authoritarianism, ignored the calls for No War in Iraq, ignores the calls to end Israel's genocide in Gaza, and ignores the calls to end the war in Iran. How can we be living in a democracy if such clear democratic calls are ignored?
Our activism has to accept that we will be ignored. When the kids went on the streets, when the millions joined No Kings etc., were they there to be ignored? Of course not. But what did they think they would achieve? Greta and the Kids did not know they would be ignored because they were young. Did this end their activism? For most it appears so - sadly. For No Kings there seems more resilience, the numbers are growing but as we can see with Minnesota and Iran the authoritarianism is increasing. We have to accept being ignored but continue to resist. Activism has to be reframed away from achievement - will going on this demo will bring about immediate change? Activism has to be reframed into a long resilient process.
Accept the lessons of fatigue, helplessness and pessimism. We are pessimistic if all we are concerned about is immediate impact and results because governmental strategy is to ignore. So are we helpless? Absolutely not. Activism is essential but it needs reframing into a resilient resistance. In Minnesota they resisted ICE, with a great deal of activism they resisted ICE. ICE has not gone from the US but it has been resisted - sadly it cost two lives. But this oligarchy - system-of-accumulation - kills many people, ask Iraq, Syria, now Iran and many more. But the lives of Renee Good and Alex Pretti hit home. We are not helpless but we have to reframe our activism into resistance.
Reframing - Stages of Rebuilding
Our emphasis for activism has to change from political to community rebuilding, and political ideologies and political representation have to take a secondary seat. DieM 25 ran a conference "Resistence and Existence" in London recently - they allied themselves to the Palestinian banner of Resistance and Existence. The basis of the conference was that the movement was failing, what was to be done on the left? The answer was different aspects of community building, there were excellent examples of powerful community but for this conference it still had to be framed in political power - real democratic power as well as democratic representation. For zandtao this was not sufficient reframing.
Working-Class has mostly been destroyed. This is a political Marxist framework but because it is framed politically it ignores so much meaning:-
Basic Community has been mosty destroyed.
Reframing - Enable Community
Bring people together - including apolitical issues. No issue is apolitical but work with people on the ground of their community. This is not new - it is an often-used tactic. But the fact that it is a tactic alienates. There is a mental framework of the activist "work with the community and convert to their brand of socialism". The Poll Tax was a powerful campaign that was hijacked by Militant. Towards the end of the campaign bill became involved as Trades Council Secretary, and he met much resistance because he was seen as Militant. The community does not trust the political activist because that activist has split allegiance - working for the community to work for ideals.
Community is broken
Ignore political theory and build community. An activist does need to have a good grounding in purpose but the real priority is building face-to-face community - bring people together whatever the issue. Do not bring your political theory into community activism. People need to trust again, and not to be seen as pawns to be manipulated by activists. Enabling the community is what is needed.
The pathtivist will also be distrusted because of the level of distrust and alienation in the community. Trade Unionists and the traditional working-class have been exploited by Blairite opportunism. zandtao assumes all educated would be mistrusted, there is no listening to any reason. Hence we have demagogues - Trump and Farage (but not now Orban). Their allegiance to the right was delusion changing from socialist pipedreams to racist blaming - and racist blaming appears more tangible. This cannot be changed by different campaigning (such as Affordability, Energy and Oligarchy ) however worthwhile and pivotal; it is changed by reframing activism and focussing on community not political policy.
To unbreak the community means rebuilding the community from foundations as discussed below. There then needs to be achievable tangible local goals, and these goals need to have been achieved by the community themselves and not the activist/pathtivist. The reframing of activism means a depoliticalisation because the politics and ideology have been lost; system-of-accumulation has divided power from the community - whilst using that power for its own ends.
Reframing means rebuilding the community for community's sake - enabling community.
Resistance is Existence
March 24 2026 DieM 25 "Resistance is Existence" had a first panel on "How did we get here?" (partial formatted transcript). The focus was on community but from a socialist perspective:-
Brian Eno:
13.00 "And the thing I've noticed most over the last 10 years is that community is the big word."
And in this we have both a solution and a problem. The problem lies in the Marxist perception that the community is the working-class, the proletariat which will eventually rise up against the 1% and take power from the bourgeoisie (discussed here). zandtao is talking about community for community's sake and not an agenda waiting to happen or be moulded.
Brian Eno:
"13.06 And I always say to people when they say, "Well, I never know what to do to help. I haven't got much money. I haven't got much time. What to do to help? And I just say find somebody who's doing something that you admire and help them; whatever it is, in whichever way they can be helped, try to do something. Don't sit there worrying. Actually get into something. And that makes a huge difference psychologically. As soon as you're part of the action, that really makes you feel better."
Laura Pidcock spoke powerfully about empowerment in community. Her emphasis was speaking about empowering leading to power, and this would happen. But zandtao asks that we first see community building as an end in itself, and then work with where that power wants to go. Laura's emphasis is more political - worth listening to.
Empowerment
Understanding empowerment in community is how we reframe activism. Doing stuff empowers psychologically. It is not about government, power, policy, ideology or even strategy for societal change; it is about enabling and empowering psychologically. For zandtao that is sufficient for activism and building - not for change.
From empowering to enquiry
But once someone is active and feels empowered psychologically, there naturally follows enquiry. And that is where the problem starts with agenda. Enquiry by its very nature is an inner journey, and that is also an end in itself for zandtao - enquiry for enquiry's sake. But where does this enquiry go? Both inner and outer. If there is an agenda, does that support the inner journey? Or just conforming to an outer view?
From Enquiry to Authenticity
Once empowered through some form of community activism an individual starts to enquire and take responsibility that leads to sila as discussed in tathata, conviction and sila; this sila is an aspect of authenticity. In reframing activism we are seeking a broadening authenticity within community, whether that authenticity leads to the left activism sought by the DieM 25 panel is not the priority.
Authenticity within Socialism
Let's be very clear, this authenticity was not valued within socialism; within socialism what mattered was replacing the conditioning and conformity of our upbringings with socialism. There was no respect for authenticity and the freedom of the individual within socialism, and this weakness was a major downfall when examined within the hyper-individualisation started through Thatcher's children.
Sound community cannot be built without this authenticity, that would be building a house without foundations. Community comes from the foundations of authenticity but socialism never saw this because socialism was concerned with an upadana and numbers to build that upadana. Socialism failed with its lack of community in the same way a house would topple without foundations.
Path
The path is authenticity so in many ways the lack of spiritual input into the grassroots movement meant there was no change because the movement for change had no foundations - the authenticity of individuals. Socialists might say there was not sufficient community but that is not going back to the source of the problem - the conditioning and conformity of the people themselves. The path is concerned with this conditioning and conformity - going beyond conditioning and conformity. Once we take away the conditioning and conformity the system-of-accumulation has no foundations. We build our movement from the foundations of authenticity.
pathtivist
The pathtivist knows that the movement begins with empowerment. The pathtivist brings compassionate liberation to the community, and through compassionate liberation enables empowerment. The pathtivist knows this empowerment is the beginning of the building of the foundations of any movement, so as long as the actions that are being empowered are either compassionate or freeing at some level the pathtivist accepts this as the beginning of activism.
As the individual gains empowerment that power brings personal responsibility that will lead to enquiry into that responsibility and an enquiry into the conditioning and conformity that were the foundations of the system-of-accumulation. As the individual learns about the way their upbringing was the foundations of that system they begin to enquire as to the way forward - the way forward to authenticity, the true foundations of community and grassroots movement.
Once enquiry begins it will undertake 2 journeys - inner and outer, the pathtivist encourages both journeys as the individual finds their own authenticity. The individual begins to see the way conditioning and conformity has fashioned their own being as well as seeing the way conditioning and conformity has fashioned society to suit the system-of-accumulation. This is a dual process that leads to authenticity.
In the past the numbers game of socialism - the 99% - has paid little attention to authenticity, and this has meant that community had no strength in foundations. And socialism never had the community foundations for its own approach. Socialism failed because of the lack of individual authentic foundations, as well as lacking the foundations in community.
Intention
This failure was by intention. Thatcher's hyper-individualisation was never concerned with the individual and authenticity, its raison d'etre was division - dividing the community. Thatcher's children were concerned with egoic development gaining meaning through the defilement of greed, the intention of the system at the time was to focus the individual on success within capitalism - individual greed.
This emphasis on individualisation did break down community but rebuilding community can start with the individual. We can begin to empower the individual and through sound mentoring within the community-building we can develop the enquiry into authentic individuals who can form the foundation of strong communities. The DieM 25 conference started with community but reframing activism starts with empowering the authenticity of the individual, and that authenticity is the foundation of the community and its activism.
This development is not linear. One could see the authenticity and activism as the inner and outer building of foundations for the grassroots movement, and each individual oscillates between the inner and outer as they build their authenticity and embody that authenticity as activism in community-building. Each oscillation clears the way through the conditioning and conformity of the system-of-accumulation as the foundations of the grassroots movement are built.
Building community
At the conference the focus was the foundations of community, and little emphasis was placed on authenticity. zandtao contends that without the authenticity the foundations being built through community would again not be strong enough. This is an important difference that the path brings to activism - personal development within community development. Bring the authenticity of compassionate liberation into the grassroots movement.
But the wisdom of the "Resistance is Existence" platform has much to offer in the foundations of community, and we have to learn from that.
Brian Eno:
"35:16 I started a little charity recently. It's a little foundation and I give money to things that I think are good. And usually it's to individuals who are doing something and who would otherwise have to take a job and couldn't do that thing any longer. One of the things I've discovered since starting that is that there are so many community groups all over this country that you never hear anything about who are building things, really good things. One example, there's a place called Coleville. Very unpromising name, but some people there took over a few abandoned buildings and started building a community center for kids, places where people could meet up and do things. They did it on really no money at all. But this place has completely revitalized this small town, it has become a different town. I've seen it in Yarmouth where we've helped some people in lots and lots of places. So, it's all going on and it's all there but nobody gets to hear about it. Again this is a perception thing. If we started hearing these stories, I'm sure there would be many many other instances. And it gives encouragement when you hear that other people can do this. "Oh, maybe we could do that as well.""
For zandtao each of these individuals are building their authenticity through the projects that Brian is helping with. Brian is helping the foundations of authenticity that is beginning to build the foundations of the community that will then build the foundations of the movement. Brian's focus is on coalescing.
Brian Eno:
"26.22 Perception is very very important in movement building. A movement isn't really effective until it's aware of itself and then it's suddenly very effective. I've always been thinking that I wanted to make coalescence happen, I want to bring people together and my studio is where this happens, I don't have any room to work in there anymore. I work in two little side rooms and the main space is where people meet now." His view of movement building begins with coalescence not revolution through class war - I don't know how far his class analysis goes but zandtao avoids seeing class. Brian empowers the authenticity of individuals, and brings them together (coalescence) building a movement on strong foundations.
From Coalescence to Movement
Brian Eno:
"44.02 I'm president of this thing called Stop the War Coalition and I have a little charity of my own called Earth Percent. I just thought, well, these are both the same ******* thing. Why don't we all realize that? Why don't these two huge movements? Because they're both very big movements, the environmental movement and the movement for ending wars and pacifism, they're huge numbers of people. Why don't we realize that we're doing the same thing? That would be very powerful."
Reframing Activism recognises that "we're doing the same thing" from the foundations of authenticity, the local projects that Brian coalesces in his studio, through to the broader coalitions of "Stop the War" and Earth Percent.
Community Activism connects to campaigning
Brian's approach to broadening community activism is a grassroots movement, a movement of activism that is building community; that is enough. This community activism is primarily about building community but will also recognise the issue of affordability, and the community will seek to take responsibility for what is affordable. Through responsible community they will develop their own strength and skills to fulfill their needs but at some point they will meet the need for what can be afforded. This might arise through labour but if the system-of-accumulation has driven up the costs of basic survival needs then that affordability preventing the community action can lead grassroots activism. From within that grassroots movement might grow a recognition of the system-of-accumulation, and that recognition might lead to a desire for activism concerning this activism. Similarly from within that grassroots activism might grow an understanding and compassion for the planet, and how the system-of-accumulation exploits the planet driving up energy costs. At this point the grassroots activism meets Grace's campaigning on Affordability, Energy and Oligarchy. But without this process of empowerment, enquiry, authenticity and community activism there is no grassroots movement; the process has to grow until it reaches the campaigning. Campaigning cannot be imposed, it has to develop; without the activism and responsibility developing authenticity there is no strength in activism - there is apathy.
Building Community without Divisions
Let's go back and listen/read Laura's contribution again. Following on from her contribution zandtao discussed the potential for division, and the following quote is not in full context (see discussion).
Laura Pidcock:
"46.41 I'm sick of going into spaces and places where me neighbors aren't there or my family isn't there and it's all these activists all these special people doing things. Actually, this has to be a mass movement that is about involving absolutely everybody with all of the brilliant skills and talents our class has. Whilst we have potentially been doomed to defeat, all of the lessons of those defeats are gifts and we've got them. We've got the gifts at our disposal, the wisdom of what those defeats have taught us."
Her clear understanding brings us back to community with its "brilliant skills and talents". The system-of-accumulation also has people with "brilliant skills and talents" but that system uses investment to take those "brilliant skills and talents" to exploit the majority of humans. Harmony would bring all those "brilliant skills and talents" together through compassionate liberation. Can that investment be taken away from the exploitation and returned to the communities with people like Brian building community projects that coalesce into grassroots activism? Can benevolence change from token exploitation to actual community-building?
Trade Union Representation
Thatcher attacked the trade unions - it was a platform of her accumulation strategies. Prior to Thatcher businesses and trade unions were negotiating about how to divide the profits - between the labour that made the product, the owners of the plant that made the product and the owners who sold the product. Whilst these negotiations usually advantaged the owners, they still wanted more profits. Smaller businesses were more personal, and there was often a communal approach where there was mutual trust in the way the profits were divided.
But the capital involvement of accumulation usually sort greater investment in bigger business, multinationals and transnationals. As firms got bigger and labour felt they were not getting a fair share, trade unions developed leading to representation in negotiations; such trade unions are recognised as a labour right by Article 23 of Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) and ILO conventions 87 and 98. Over time the transnationals became so powerful they could decide on wages without negotiation. At the same time capital sought greater investment, and through automation they found a way. This is leading to AI where there will be few jobs.
With the declining ability of trade unions to negotiate there was increased apathy. For the representatives to be effective they needed their members to back them up but members needed jobs and owners were able to divide this trade union community action.
Political Representation
With the trade union movement labour recognised that it had some power in negotiating, this labour movement developed politically. At the same time the landowners were finding it harder to exploit their workers so there developed a delusion - electoral democracy. The purpose of this electoral democracy was to delude people into thinking power had their interest by offering some benefits for workers voting for their party. This was mainly token but with some benefits through trade unions and some benefits through political representation people were in some ways satisfied to give responsibility to representatives. Some representatives worked for the people but they were only as strong as the people who backed them. But over time these representatives became egoic and rather than representing the members or constituents; these opportunists worked for themselves to develop their own personal political power. With the representation becoming increasingly distant from the grassroots movement increasing apathy developed; even good representatives could do nothing for their members as the system-of-accumulation became more and more oligarchal.
Empowering representatives cannot start with the politicians because as individuals a politician has no power. A politician only has power when they represent the interests of powerful grassroots activism. But if grassroots activism has slipped into apathy then the politician is weak. Even caring politicians (2nd panel of Resistance is Existence) such as Yanis, Jeremy, Zack and Grace can do nothing without there being grassroots community activism. Oligarchy has divided these good representatives from their base, and the base has given up on representation and has given up on their own responsibility; there is now limited community activism because of apathy.
Reframing Activism is not a political question, it is a question of the grassroots taking back responsibility in their daily lives by rebuilding their community. Whilst there is a need for the analysis of these compassionate representatives, the priority is not support for their representation but rebuilding community. In reframing activism these political representatives need to change their emphasis into rebuilding community. Jeremy's success is not so much as a politician but because he was always there for his constituents, that is why they voted for him and not Labour.
Rebuilding Community is not just the political arena
In this talk Thich Nhat Hanh discussed the importance of rebuilding community with David Suzuki, and he was famed for establishing the Plum Village community. Again we have to be careful of agenda. The purpose of rebuilding community is not to develop Plum Village, it is building community. When people become empowered and start enquiring they might choose an inner path and their authenticity might take them towards the sangha. But being sangha or following their path or turning an individual's activism into political activism happens when an individual is ready. And if they are not ready just work to empower.
pathtivism
zandtao asks seekers to consider being a part of building community but only after they have developed their paths. With path comes embodiment, and zandtao suggests that a possible embodiment is grassroots activism. As empowerment leads to enquiry and authenticity this is a similar process to awareness. From awareness come responsibility that leads to conviction and sila, and this inner strength of authenticity helps in giving back to the community. This reframing of activism aligns with the path as it helps people rebuild their communities as well as developing their inner strength.
Joy of empowerment and community
But throughout this process of community building thorough empowerment, enquiry, authenticity, and grassroots activism. there is a character of joy. When we build together we enjoy together. Much of our labour is characterised by wage-slavery - working for capital, there is not joy in the work but there is joy in the community of labour. But what if we choose how we rebuild our communities then there is joy in that rebuilding - being together. Let us build and celebrate this joy. And if it is path how much more is that joy - bliss? In authenticity when we do what we want we enjoy. So when we talk of this reframing of activism we are talking of bringing joy back to life through rebuilding community.
And there is joy in resistance because we own it.
But there is no joy in pipedreams. If we sit and imagine a democracy of redistributed wealth and make our lives about that, it is unattainable and how much can we enjoy dreams? We enjoy when we are active, when we are dong what we want - and not just seeking false joy through escapism. Let's be grounded, responsible and enjoy rebuilding our communities.
After thought - Activism as Radical Love
As part of the final chapter of zeer-consciousness, zandtao focused on 2 best books - unleashing love with Nicola Amadora "Love Unleashed" and/or through loving yourself with Teal Swan "How to Love Yourself" - to learn about loving oneself. When he looks at the tathata of conviction and sila and combines it with empowerment, enquiry and authenticity zandtao can see an emerging backbone for loving oneself - through community building and activism.
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