http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfT0FQ-VYWs
[GWD.F]
The definition of activist, in the eyes of our Creator, in
the eyes of truth, is one, and only one, thing - The person waging their very
being, their life, everything they have and everything they are, with total
accountability for the global neediest that they've selected. Rachel Corey,
Egyptian revolutionaries, Alice Paul and her sisters…. Living today, the one that I know for sure,
Dianne Wilson, the only one that I know for sure. Our sister Hope, I
think. Brian, maybe. The marchers on the salt works in India,
Steven Biko and the dozens like them who totally waged their lives against the
violence of the apartheid regime in S Africa. The Jews that are placing their
bodies between massively sub-human Israeli settlers, rapers and plunderers all,
thieves, thugs, and their brothers and sisters the Palestinian farmers, the
targets of the thugs. The Buddhist monks in Tibet self-immolating, the Buddhist
Monks who so heroically stood up for their population about a year and a half
ago in Myanmar. The revolutionaries in Tahrir square who said 'kill me if you
want, torture me if you want imprison me if you want, but I’m not sitting
down." Those are activists; nothing
less is.
"But Loving, there are thousands of activists in this
country, there are thousands, certainly hundreds in this city, DC"- NO;
there are, my brothers and sisters all, hacktivists, yacktivists, ‘act’ivists,
whacktivists….. They're accountable to who? History? Those in history that
through unviolent warfare have achieved things? No. They're not accountable to
the greats in history, and in no way do they measure themselves to them. Those
icons were accountable for results, today's hacktivists that call themselves
activists? No, the fastest way to either clear a room or make yourself entirely
totally unwelcome among today's 'activists' is to talk about accountability.
How are we actually going to win this? How are we actually going to take
personal responsibility for this stopping? You want to make yourself totally
persona non grata in Republican circle? Tell them you think that global
warming is real. Want to make yourself
totally persona non grata among 'activists' in 2012? Tell them that you want to
take personal responsibility, not for ‘opposing’ environmental genocide, but
for actually stopping it in 2012. That's the last that you'll actually see
anyone, once they realize that you're serious. You’ve just cleared the room,
and you are no longer welcome.
No, there are no 'activists,' virtually no activists today,
they're ‘act’ivists, like virtually all these last 40 years in the US. I think
it's said that - is it religion or democracy is the 'last refuge of scoundrels?'
No. Activism is the last refuge of scoundrels. That is the place where people
go that want to escape any and all accountability for, personal responsibility
to their clients, to history, to responsibility, to method, to personal accountability, personal measurement.
These last 40 years 'activism' is a club, where the only responsibility to is
to hold everyone outside of your circle to the most unattainable, unachievable,
cruel, unrealistic requirements and expectations, and yourself and your
colleagues to absolutely none. It's the last refuge of scoundrels.
These are my brothers and sisters all, some of whom I've
come to personally love dearly. If
anything ever brings them alive they will be among the most happy on Earth,
it's a living death that they're in but there are no 'activists,'
Diane Wilson is the one I know personally and by name, and
I've named others above, living and dead, whose names I don't know. Those are
activists. And then there are a few that may be emerging in Occupy DC, and
there’s Hope, but it is too soon to be sure.
We know what a Marine looks like, we know what a brain
surgeon looks like, we know what an Olympic runner looks like. I've reminded
you what a real, potent activist looks like. If you want to stay in your
denial, live it up. If you think these times are too serious to continue to
indulge denial, I've just shown you how to wake up, and what to wake up to
become. Hurry, for the Joy of it; for
the Life and future of it.
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