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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Aannndddd..... people "wonder why" nothing changes, when THEIR pack/herd/tribe gains power, or when another's does: it just goes 'round & 'round & 'round, again.
Until one has fundamentally altered one's own unconscious-mind,
altering one's own nature,
then the same nature as what created the problems we're caught-in, is all one has to wield.
"physician, 1st heal thyself" is the key, but nobody's got the guts to enforce the deep transformation.
( & I'm saying that while having failed to break unconscious-ignorance from this-incarnation/life, thus-far, myself, for decades.
It isn't easy, but if one never tries, it'll never have more than 0% chance of happening.
it'd be easier in a culture which accepted such transformations as valid, fersure, but that got eradicated by materialism, didn't it? )
aka Spot-on, Voidan@lemmy-dbzer0.com , spot-on.
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Aannndddd… yeah. The "round and round" is what happens when we mistake performative rebellion for actual change. Most of us know the system’s broken, but we’d rather rage at the symptoms than admit we’re part of the pattern. You’re dead right about the "physician, heal thyself" bit, except nobody wants to do the boring work of actually examining why they crave control, whether it’s over a Lemmy community or a state. Easier to just slap a label on the ‘enemy’ and call it a day.
True rebellion against fascism starts with the self.
"If everyone just has a Buddha epiphany then we can finally break free from authoritarianism" is certainly a take
It's not possible, because anyone who realizes "I am the nazi" and enforces justice, is dead, or worse. You won't be hearing these voices of reason, unless they did well from the start.