Let’s speak some truth today, some of you aren’t going to like it but you deserve to hear it. You reap what you sow.
All you “I prefer to stay neutral” types, you are the reason we have fallen into Fascism, period. All you trying to keep peace with your MAGA family, protect your business by staying quiet, protect your marriages because your partner is MAGA (if you’re stuck with a MAGA and have no where to go, there are networks out here to help you), otherwise, you are the reason we’ve fallen into fascism. Those of you who sideways, passive aggressively attack me for what I write on our store sandwich board every day, for the stance I’ve taken as a business owner to be on the side of true patriotism, to protect people, to provide a safe space for everyone, to donate to causes that protect people and uphold the rule of law, YOU are the reason we’ve fallen into fascism. YOU the hand wringing, Debbie Do Gooders, the Lucy Love and Lighters, you, the do nothing, do no harm folks refusing to speak out when you see atrocities committed upon our brothers and sisters, you are the reason we’ve fallen to fascism in this country. YOU ARE A BIG PART OF THE PROBLEM.
Your fear, your unwillingness to confront evil when you see it, the slinking away back into the shadows flinging arrows at the very ones who are taking the side of right, protecting the people, standing up, you disgust me. In your echo chambers you decry us for bringing what you call politics into our business and daily lives, this is not politics any longer, it ceased to be about politics when they started dragging people away and imprisoning them without due process, when they started shipping people off to war torn countries, or torture camps in countries they’ve never even been to, when they snatched a child and her family in a hospital where a 4 year old girl was undergoing cancer treatment and shipped her to another country promising that child a certain death. It’s not about politics when my Latino and Islander friends are afraid to come visit me, lest they meet an ICE patrol on the highway. This is not about politics, it’s about humanity, it’s about morality, but as immorally as you’ve presented yourselves thus far with your me, me, me, I, I, I, performative spirituality, I don’t expect you to understand the difference inherent therein.
With so many in the spiritual field parroting the same narcissistic b.s. Like, it’s all about ‘my journey’, ‘my growth’, ‘my ascension’... tell me who’s going to be there with you after all your finger pointing and gatekeeping is done? No one, because that is hollow, shallow chamber music you play for yourself when you have no idea what the actual goal is, and there is no destination for you where that goal is met when you can’t meet your brothers and sisters as equals and hold their hand when they’re in need. Ascension is not a singular mission and yet, here we are with you treating it like it’s a personal journey because inwardly you’re selfish and fearful.
This is why those in the community trying to do the actual work of raising the tribe’s energy to a point where we are beyond the noise is near impossible, getting everyone on the same page to combat the encroaching doom is near impossible, because the handlers, the Oz behind the curtain, the Guru, has convinced you that the great work is all about you and you alone talking to some ascended master that only speaks to you. They’ve done a great job convincing you to sequester yourselves, to work on you, to go inward, to raise your vibration unto the point that you’ve alienated the humans who don’t act as you do, to separate yourselves from the others by believing you’re a starseed or an indigo child…. They convinced you that you’re better, you’re more gifted, have special gifts and you’ve acquiesced nicely and pointed your little fingers of conviction at everything that made you a little queasy when it presented itself as a threat to what you’ve come to believe.
The cultural practices you claim to honor, you've co-opted those spiritual practices and monetized them without the slightest bit of understanding of the actual cultural meanings behind them. You’ve made a mockery of them for your masters. This adaptation is appropriation and is the reason we now have fascism marching across the world. The narcissistic, fascistic minions ALL believe they’re special, different, threatened by outside races, lesser peoples, them, those, they… immigrants. We are all one and some of you are hurting all of us. If the Great Work didn’t take cooperation, ask yourself why there are so many orders, lodges, temples? Yet those have been co-opted by the fascists as well, they always have been, because they too have imperialistic tendencies, they too have co-opted the practices of tribes before them with little to no understanding of the cultural meanings of the practices they so desired to incorporate. They too are the problem.
When are we going to learn that none of us are special, all of us are precious, that all of us come from one common ancestor, that we share more in common than we do in differences, that all of us want happiness, security, pleasure, love, joy? When? When are we going to learn that together we can conquer any problem that faces humanity, that together in cooperation with the biome, our mother, the earth, we can find peace. There’s no such thing as an immigrant to mother earth, there’s no such thing as other, they, them, there is only us, we are all the one race who is destroying our habitat, destroying all life on this little, blue planet. We, we all are the problem. We have to find ways to stop trying so hard to be different and see the oneness of the all or we’re fucking doomed. Stand for humanity, erase the lines, reach down and pull people up when they’re drowning, it’s not hard to be a decent human, you should try it some time. Religion and politics have done more harm than any other device to the human condition.
Come join me, you can find me holding the hand of an elder, dancing with my neighbors, hugging a tree and wielding a claymore against those who would hurt any one of these.
With absolute sincerity,
Tay