The Omni-Perspective
Naomi Klein, a journalist and author I admire, wrote an important piece for the Guardian today. How humanity now weaponises the story of the victim to justify and launder extended horror.
Just as Ta-Nehisi Coates has written and spoken of, using a victim status of being the oppressed to enact extraordinary violence and horror to the oppressor perpetuates into eternity the cycle of horror, and in the process, everyone at that particularly nasty game slowly then quickly divorces themselves from their humanity, justifying the very cruelty and atrocities others inflicted upon them. They become the evil they rail against.
In these times of ‘it is almost only propaganda, ’ truth is hard to find. My forty-plus years of applying the law of Synergy to my practice means that I must start with the biggest multi-perspective view possible. The Omni-Perspective.
Always the question why. That delightful natural instinct of childhood that our education systems do a dangerously brilliant job of wiping out.
Curiosity.
Why did this happen? Why did a group of people do this? What do they gain? Where is the power centre? What does the power centre want? All the way down to the root of the root. The Source. This is the truth we must confront.
Anchored by another lesson from kindergarten. Treat others as you want to be treated. (Dare I say all others, not just a particular type of others.) Be kind and respectful. Listen more than you talk. Seek to understand.
I fail at doing this well many times. I get reactionary. I bite back rather than pause and examine the why of my biting back.
Yet this practice is one we humans might all re-learn.
To see the Omni-Perspective.
On October 7th, 1830, more than 2,200 Australian settlers, military police and convicts, the largest force ever mobilised against the Aboriginal people, representing about 10% of the European Australians, formed what they called The Black Line to push the Indigenous Australians off their land.
I am informed that tonight, The Sydney Harbour Bridge, one of the most iconic centrepieces of Australia, will have a candle to commemorate October 7th.
But not the one that fractured the heart of our history. Nor one that pauses long enough to respect the deaths of over 43,000 Palestinians.
Violence, whoever wields the sword, has never been the answer. I stand against its every expression. Weaponising violence to sanctify exponentially more violence must end. I hang my head in memory of all of the innocents lost to violence on October 7th and every other day of the year.
The genuinely curious question I hold in my heart now is how the Israeli lobby of setters colonists – this small group of people – became so powerful in the Western political landscape to dictate the response of my country and so many others, leading to the escalation we now face, which will affect every human on the planet.
Photo Taken September 11th 2024
