amaryllis fox
intro’d to Amaryllis via this video (shared by gw on fb): – Confessions of a former covert CIA agent – june 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnEKEfkdrOU
everybody believes they are the good guy
stories (of why the fighting) manufactured by a really small number of people on both sides who amass a great deal of power and wealth by convincing the rest of us to keep killing each other…
the only real way to disarm your enemy is to listen to them
thinking queen noor and adichie single story ness
and why… self talk as data is huge..
if you hear them out.. if you’re brave enough to really listen to their story.. you can see that more often than not.. you might have made some of the same choices if you’d lived their life instead of yours..
i know you ness
while it may be easier to dismiss your enemy as evil.. hearing them out on policy concerns is actually an amazing thing… because as long as your enemy is a subhuman psychopath that’s going to attack you no matter what you do.. this never ends.
but if your enemy is a policy.. however complicated.. that we can work with
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“It’s the wisdom — or rather the movement toward it — that counts.” Vivian Gornick, who turns 81 today, on memoir brainpickings.org/2015/06/22/viv…
‘to master the art of personal narrative’ – self-talk as data. host life bits that io dance. i know you (self and others) enough ness.
be you. 