http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY8jthrMv58
Secret strategy.
The potent activists hold
themselves to be the highest kind of human beings, that others involuntarily,
want to be themselves. I don't know why
my heart's calling it the ‘secret strategy.’
We'll just leave it at that; I rarely don't listen to what my heart
tells me to do. I'm not talking about
some silly weak little heart, I'm talking about the massive macro processor, the
80% of our brain Einstein said we don't
use.
I've told your and over again,
there are four movies you have to see.
If you continue with this work and you haven't seen them, you really owe
it to you to stop and see them now,
as I keep on referencing
them.
The scene in the actual Freedom
Rider interview, within the last year I believe, with the Kennedy
administration representative, a 70 something fellow now I'd say, recounting
with horror, but unfathomable admiration for the courage of Diane Nash, and the
other Nashville college students.
'Sir,' Diane said, 'we understand that you're saying that we’re headed
to our deaths. We just signed our last
wills. We know what we're doing,' as she
led the students going down to the mob in Alabama, that had just stopped the
prior flight of freedom rides. They
called out his humanity these insanely humane college students, this Kennedy
rep not knowing they were doing it, him not understanding they were doing it,
they called out his humanity, involuntary to him; he couldn't resist it.
Someone suddenly and viciously
pokes their finger toward your eye, your eye involuntarily closes. It's an involuntary reflex in him, the
Kennedy admin, the Kennedys themselves,the nation, involuntarily, reflexively,
our humanity was powerfully engaged, provoked, invoked, brought to bear.
We have many such involuntary
reflexes, and one is when we see clear, breathtaking, insanely humane behavior,
all but the most crippled of us psychologically, have an involuntary
reaction. It calls out that behavior
from us. It calls forth the heart. This is what's going on friends. This is why when the world read a newspaper
story of the row upon row upon row of thousands of people of India, walking
simply to collect what was rightfully theirs, salt from their oceans, and being
beaten senseless, having their groins aggressively kicked, over and over again,
refusing to raise a hand to protect themselves, that the entire world stepped
briefly to a higher level of humanity.
It's an in involuntary reflex.
And it is at the intuitive heart
of why the potent activist, the Unviolent warrior, does not shield the below
from the police; does not react with anger and hostility to the police; does
not react with anger and hostility to the judge sentencing them to prison.
These are warriors. Their weapon is their own breathtaking
humanity, which is a capacity of us all, and they sense that by heroically
exercising it involuntarily, they hack the heart, they hack past the defenses
of the head and the flesh of their of their adversaries. It is possible that in 2012 America our
shields of head and flesh around our heart are so thick and our hearts so
weakened through disuse, there is the remotest possibility that this hacking,
this invoking… will no longer work. My
studied judgment is that there's a 99.99999% chance that it will work, if
specifically, 1000 people, soon, show up here in front of the Canadian Embassy,
from the place of love, from the place of our highest humanity, from the place
of our highest solidarity with all humanity, friend and foe, saying, 'We are
simply here to collect a future for our children, through immediate legislation
that ends sending them the wreckage costs for fossil warming fuels on to them,
and redistributes Earth killing subsidies to future generating subsidies, as
described in detail in the book Global Warming's Death. Fast.
If 1000 people show up here in
front of the Canadian Embassy, soon, and say that's simply what we want, we're
not here to cause trouble, and if the price is our lives, you may have as many
as you would like, they're happily yours, it will hack through the massive head
and flesh defenses shielding the hearts of millions of Americans, and success
is guaranteed, with the gratitude of today’s millions who only years from now
would say oh my God, thank you for saving us from our insanity, thank you for
jumping us to a higher level of humanity from the depths that we had been
sinking to these last 40, 50 years in an ever sicker and sicker America, who
otherwise, we all love.
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