http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe-mhjtAEOg
You saw the movie Gandhi, right? See it now, if you didn't. It's one of the great pictures for us of what
the INSHE warriors, the insanely humane warriors, the true, potent activist
throughout history looks like. In an
early scene Gandhi's been engaged, first is a lawyer in South Africa by the
people from India living there who are being terribly persecuted, and then in
early activism for them, he conducts what in the movie at least is his first
Unviolent action. There's been a bill to
pass a license, I don't remember just for what, to certify that your wife is
legitimate, or something, but it is blatant discrimination, it's only on the
Indian population, it's rank discrimination.
And in a town square, a small receptacle is created and these licenses
are put in the receptacle to be burned, which is an express violation of
apartheid law; and Gandhi walks forward when the police walk forward, after
this has started, threatening Gandhi with their brutal batons. Knowing exactly what will happen, he places a
license in the fire, and the first, or second or third time he does this, he's
crushed to the ground by a brutal blow and it stuns him, but not fully. And he barely musters enough strength to grab
another one and put it in the fire.
Do you remember the outrage that Gandhi showed that officer
that crushed him to the ground? The
anger, hostility the righteous hatred was so understandable, remember? I don't remember it either because it didn't
happen; not in the movie, and not in real life.
When one devotes their entire being to a cause, if they're
truly doing that, as opposed to agenda items that they aren't really devoting
themselves to, when they're purely devoting their lives to a simple, single
righteous agenda item, they become pretty aware of anything that's gonna pull
them in the wrong direction, that's gonna move them, all that hard work ,away
from achieving their goal. Gandhi
believed, as in their own way does every true, potent activist, INSHE warrior,
Gandhi believed that the only permanent solution, the only permanent solution
to any problem was converting the opposition to be brother and sister, to
converting them from unhuman, to passionately humane and that any nanosecond of
un-brotherly behavior would defeat, and maybe destroy those attempts. So practically speaking, never does the
potent activist allow themselves a nanosecond of viewing the other is not
brother or sister.
I don't know about you, but if I saw my most beloved brother
across the field in a craze, about to smash and the head of an infant, and I
had a rifle, the only way to stop him was to shoot him, I'd do it. Nothing is off the table when the purest love
sees their loving brother, except for hateful behavior. I don't hate my brother when I shoot
him. And you know what? Human beings are extremely good at discerning
such things. Did I just kill my brother
out of hatred? Did I just put my body in
the way out of hatred? Did I just
challenge his unrighteous laws out of hatred, or did I do it as a loving brother?
The remotely salvageable human being never has trouble
discerning between the two, not for long, so this isn't some metaphysical, some
self-righteous assessment, some rule.
This is pragmatism. But the
other issue is, the true, potent activist is a creature of the heart, as
discussed in other essays, video logs.
Period. A loving creature.
Period. Love is unconditional or isn't
love. So on both scores the true, potent
activist never for selfish reasons, or for reasons of their very being, never
allows a sliver of viewing the other as not full brother, not immediate family,
sister, and when they feel that demon in them they see it, and they do whatever
mentalwork, whatever spiritual work they have to, to root it out before it
poisons and destroys everything.
And you?
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