Charles Bradley, "Golden Rule" (2011)
Charles Bradley, "Golden Rule" (2011)
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Kindness is real, yo!
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The family group/tribe is built on mutual support, but the modern conservative version is transactional, based on membership and loyalty. Actions that look like kindness are in reality actions to reinforce tribal loyalty. I think this is why so many people in conservative communties, who are trapped in entirely conservative information spaces, have a hard time breaking free. They see examples of community support as affirmations of their community goodness, and this narrative is drummed into them constantly. Conservative leaders have the advantage of labeling any disruptive people or ideas as 'foreign' and a threat, even if from within the community, so that they never even have to engage with new ideas on merit.
Kindness isnt a relevant trait to their tribal functioning, because the ability to be unkind and cruel to people who arent toeing the tribal line is necessary to upholding 'family law'. Kindness in others undermines their attempts to police peoples behavior (this is why its so important that men are in charge). Therefore, not only is kindness devalued, it is actively persecuted as a threat to conservative values. And that is only treatment of your in-group. If you reject kindness internally, imagine how easy it is to subject an out-group to cruel inhumanity. You can literally justify anything. What is horrifying is the degree to which everyday members of conservative communities have become willfully blind to the terrible treatment of others in order to hang on to an image of community goodness. I have witnessed far too much of this in my life.
Its worth stating that the left has its own, different kind of tribalism. They embrace kindness but there is a lot of pressure to prove the right kind of worth. It has a distinctly multicultural, anti-authoritarian tribalism, where the rules of the tribe are under constant negotiation. This makes communicating a platform challenging. Its a lot simpler for conservative platforms whose rules come from demagogues and an old book.
The flaw of designing a system without compassion is that the cruelty eventually becomes impossible to hide from the tribe, and the cruelty comes for everyone. #uspol #politics #disability #sociology #anthropology #kindness #geopol
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Hello Lovely Peeps!
One way or another, connection & community has been pretty much ever-present on my mind lately.
Please know how much I love every single one of your stories - even the friendly interactions between mutuals on my timeline.
Some are downright awe-inspiring! At the very least, they are heart-warming, & so often I also realise 'Oooh, I / we could do something like that here!'
*Please* keep sharing them!
Wherever you are and whatever your circumstances, may you find that connection, community, and kindness.
May you have enough, and may you pass it on.
Much to you all and may you have a good week.
“How do you spot an idiot? Look for the person who is cruel. The kindest person in the room is often the smartest.” — Gov Pritzker
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"Dangerous Coats"
by Sharon Owens
Someone clever once said
Women were not allowed pockets
In case they carried leaflets
To spread sedition
Which means unrest
To you & me
A grandiose word
For commonsense
Fairness
Kindness
Equality
So ladies, start sewing
Dangerous coats
Made of pockets & sedition
Found thanks to @GrrlScientist.
“I went to London on Friday 14th Feb, and purchased 1200€ in cash from the foreign exchange bureau at Victoria station. I then went for a lovely lunch in Farringdon. We got the train home to Brighton early evening.
On arriving home I checked my handbag and realised that the money was not in my bag. Panic set in, after a sleepless night, I called the foreign exchange bureau first thing. They hadn’t heard anything but I left my contact details.
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Using #kindness against evil might seem weak, but billions of acts of kindness are like water dripping on concrete: they will always crack it in the end.
What did you do today to resist cruelty and help make the world a little better?
(Choose as many as you like, but doom-posting on social media doesn't count.)