evil - Blog - Fearlessness Movement2024-03-29T11:16:52Zhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/blog/feed/tag/evilMarianne Williamson Presidential Phenomenon: New Bookhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/blog/marianne-williamson-presidential-phenomenon-new-book2021-01-12T20:27:39.000Z2021-01-12T20:27:39.000ZR.Michael Fisherhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/members/RMichaelFisher<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}8416774263,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}8416774263,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="8416774263?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="763" height="563" /></a></p>
<p>This is my newest book! <strong>Fearlessness meets Fear!</strong></p>
<p>It is ready to order now <a href="https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/73363">https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/73363</a> and will be released in the next week, if all goes well; also available from diverse book sellers (e.g., <a href="https://www.brooklinebooksmith.com/book/9781433179303" target="_blank">Brookline</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Marianne-Williamson-Presidential-Phenomenon-Evolution/dp/143317930X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=%22Marianne+Williamson+Presidential+Phenomenon%22&qid=1610484005&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon</a>). To introduce you to a bit of the inside of the book, here is one of the endorsements by Dr. Randall Auxier and the Table of Contents. I'll share bits more in the weeks ahead. THE BOOK is divided into three PARTS: (1) THE PHENOMENON, (2) THE CRITIQUE, and (3) THE LESSONS; a total of 358 pp. [to talk with me: r.michaelfisher52 [at] gmail.com] also full brochure on book is <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}8430419500,original{{/staticFileLink}}">MWPP Book Brochure.pdf</a></p>
<p><strong>Also</strong> just created first video Intro on the book (focus on meaning behind the cover design): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4sYleZOf5g">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4sYleZOf5g</a></p>
<p><strong>BOOK REVIEWS</strong>: </p>
<p><em>Marianne Williamson reached hundreds of thousands of people with her books, lectures, and workshops since her rise to prominence in the 1990s. Since declaring her bid for the Presidency of the US she has reached millions. Not all were eager listeners but many heard her enduring message. Dr. Fisher has made a case study of her "transformational" leadership, arguing (critically at times) that the key to her success was an ability to meet fear fearlessly. Why does her message resonate now in just the way it does? Why is there such tension between those who want to push her away, call her a flake, avoid the obvious and real spiritual implications of our present politics? </em></p>
<p><em>And how can Williamson balance her other-worldly discipline with her transformational leadership? Dr. Fisher is probably the world's leading expert on the effects of fear and its antidotes, and here he takes an unflinching look at how fear has warped and twisted us, and how we can be transformed by such figures as Williamson. As he indicates, it is very important, at this moment, not only to understand what is happening, but to remember and document for the future what this moment was for those who lived it. Yet, there is more than memory in these pages. This is also about what kind of future we can hope for, in contrast to what we will get if we do not learn to face our fears, and face them down. </em></p>
<p>Randall Auxier, Ph.D., author of <em>Time, Will, and Purpose: Living Ideas from the Philosophy of Josiah Royce, </em>Professor of Philosophy and Communication Studies, S. Illinois University Carbondale</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>TABLE OF CONTENTS</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Acknowledgements</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Foreword by Rob Asghar</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Preface</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Introduction</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Transformer for President(?): A Shocking Possibility</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Politician or Not?</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Book Overview</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">PART I- THE PHENOMENON</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Chapter One: The Donald Trump Phenomenon</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Trump and Talking About Fear: Coronavirus Epidemic</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">The Donald Trump Phenomenon</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">The New Age of Trumpism</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Chapter Two: The Marianne Williamson Phenomenon</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Contexts of Sensemaking</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Williamson and Talking About Fear: Coronavirus Epidemic</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Corona-Time: Do We Need an Epidemic of Williamson-style Love?</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Four Major Aspects of the Marianne Williamson Phenomenon</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> A. Inner Life and Mysticism</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> B. Leadership (Theory/Style)</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> C. Philosophy (and Theology)</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> D. Therapy (and Metaphysician)</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Chapter Three: A Spiritual (R)Evolution Enters Politics</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Spiritual (R)Evolution</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Move On: Your History Needs You! </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">More Than 'Spiritual But Not Religious': <em>A Course in Miracles</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">New Age/New Thought Movement</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Marianne Williamson and New Social Movements: 50+ Branches</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">PART II- THE CRITIQUE</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Chapter Four: Donald Trump as Bad or as Evil? </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Entering Fragilization as Discovery</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Mirroring: Introduction of the Arch-Rivals</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">"You're Letting Evil In..."</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Williamson's Theological View on "Evil"</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">'You're Letting In the Donald Trump Phenomenon'</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">The Twin Phenomenon: Shadow Projections</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Chapter Five: Systems Thinking Correction: Transformation of I and We</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Introduction: From Political Sphere to Entering Politics</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Self-Correcting Systems: Mind/Nation</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Paradise is Nice But There's More Story to Tell</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">PART III- THE LESSONS</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Chapter Six: She's Missing 'The Right' Six Words</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Never Short on Words</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">'I Want To Be President Of The United States'</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Reflections: The Primaries Election Discontent</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Chapter Seven: Some Lessons</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Lesson Six: 'Waking Up'</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Lesson Five: Tweet Mindfully or Not At All</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Lesson Four: Boomeritis Handicap</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Lesson Three: Love vs. Fear Thing</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Lesson Two: "Faux Spirituality"</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Lesson One: Playing Psychiatrist </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"> </p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Index</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"> </p>
<p style="text-align:center;">****</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"> </p>
<p> </p></div>Michael Moore Meets Fearologisthttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/blog/michael-moore-meets-fearologist2018-10-17T13:51:09.000Z2018-10-17T13:51:09.000ZR.Michael Fisherhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/members/RMichaelFisher<div><p>In 2004 (one year after my dissertation on "Fearless Leadership") I was interviewed on Canadian national (CBC) Radio by one of the top program hosts (Shelagh Rogers). The live 18 min. interview (her in Toronto and me in Vancouver) is historical and a great moment in my life of possibility for "fearology" and the naming of the importance of fear's impacts. The program began as follows:</p>
<p><span style="color: #575757; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">(S): Good morning!</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #575757; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">(M) (Michael): Good morning Shelagh.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #575757; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">S: To begin, what’s a fearologist?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #575757; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">M: Well, a fearologist is somebody who studies the relationship of fear with, basically, Life. And that fear is not just what I’d call psychological fear but actually cultural, sociological, political fear.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #575757; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">S: And how did you become a fearologist?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #575757; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">M: Well, basically, I’m not trained in fearology. It’s hard to find anywhere that will give you a degree in that.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #575757; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">S: [chuckles] </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #575757; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">****</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #575757; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">It is 14 years later and such an interview with the public media has not happened since with anything more than the very brief media interview (clip) of less than a minute on air. It is quite possible that public media or even independent media radio or tv will not ever interview me again. I've learned lessons about this kind of thing over the decades. The 'snowball effect' that we all wish for when we are promoting a cause may or may not come in our life-times. It's a humbling reality.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #575757; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">****</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #575757; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">The point of sharing the Roger's interview is to point to my ongoing interrelationship with the art/activism (film making) of Michael Moore (B. and I went and saw his latest movie 11/9 last night... more on that later in this blog). Roger's and I also got into a discussion about <strong>Moore's</strong> award-winning Oscar film (2002):</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #575757; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">M: I wish every parent, teacher and community leader would read the latest book on the culture of fear by Dr. Giroux, on how fear is being constructed through a cultural politics by elites in government, the military, and corporations—he says we are abandoning the young people of Gen X and Y. Democracy is being undermined by a culture of fear in a post-9/11 world. Giroux’s point, and mine, is that it doesn’t mean we don’t take action against terrorists, it means we don’t undermine democracy and all quality of life in doing it.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #575757; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">S: Michael, what is responsible for that?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #575757; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">M: Well I think you know media has unfortunately....</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #575757; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">S: I’m leaving the studio.... [chuckles]</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #575757; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">M: [chuckles] I know. I was just ready, you are going to shut the mic off here. I think it’s pretty clear that, Bowling for Columbine by <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: inherit; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; color: #575757; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span class="search-highlight" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: inherit;">Michael Moore</span></strong>, was a clear indicator of the impact that media has on constructing fear. So, I’ve been using this term, culturally constructed, or culturally-modified fear.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #575757; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">S: And Bowling for Columbine would be the culture of fear, leading to gun culture?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #575757; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">M: Gun culture and where we get in situations where one-third, for example, statistics, of housing starts in America are actually walled-communities. So, just think that one-third of housing starts are actually in gated or walled-communities.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #575757; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">S: Is the media it, Michael? Or are there other sources for the blooming of the culture of fear? </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #575757; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">**** [For the full interview script: <a href="https://fearlessnessmovement.ning.com/forum/dancing-with-shelagh-rogers-on-cbc-radio-18-minutes-for-fearology">https://fearlessnessmovement.ning.com/forum/dancing-with-shelagh-rogers-on-cbc-radio-18-minutes-for-fearology</a> ]</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #575757; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><strong>Michael Moore</strong> also showed up in a photo entry <a href="https://fearlessnessmovement.ning.com/photos/3allies">https://fearlessnessmovement.ning.com/photos/3allies</a> where I talk about why Moore is important:<br /></span></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: inherit; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; color: #575757; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;">"Michael Moore Meets Fearologist-II" (my 2nd video) go to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJLdM85Rwts&t=4s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJLdM85Rwts&t=4s</a></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: inherit; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; color: #575757; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;">I have been playing with images of allies and enemies for a long time on my soul journey. I'll share some images of allies that I constructed in my 'avatar' imaginary "Second World" landscape and mindscape, as more or less, "useful" to where I was (and am) heading... [my 'shamanic' work]</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: inherit; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; color: #575757; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;">For those of you not familiar, here are their names and you can look up their very interesting work over the decades:</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: inherit; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; color: #575757; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;">on far left upper: Andrew Cohen; left upper Don Beck; left lower Ken Wilber</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: inherit; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; color: #575757; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;">on far right upper: Marilyn Manson, on right uppermost <strong>Michael Moore</strong>, on lower David Icke</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: inherit; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; color: #575757; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;">**** [For a recent critique on Moore's Fahrenheit 11/9 film go to <a href="https://fearlessnessmovement.ning.com/blog/mixing-art-activism-education-michael-moore-s-new-film" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://fearlessnessmovement.ning.com/blog/mixing-art-activism-education-michael-moore-s-new-film</a></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: inherit; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; color: #575757; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;">****</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: inherit; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; color: #575757; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;">Point of this imagery around <strong>Moore</strong> and my ongoing interrelationship to his work (and my critiques) shows he is deep in my psyche, you might say, and deeply connected to my soul, you might say. I believe he represents something I admire and am not happy about. I see a missed educative opportunity, a missed healing and transformative possibility... he get's people close to the point of great transition and then falls short and drops into a 'cheap' victimizational emotionalism and politics of the oppressed, without the sacred. He's a secular activist and it really hurts his work and potency for 'big' transformation in the world, in consciousness, and a healthy and growing criticality. He falls back into his American upbringing and media-based ways of "propaganda" (at some level)--because he is competitive to "win" (and good are over here and evil are over there).... he plays off the archetypal 'David and Goliath" story narrative always, to "win" fans and to try to "win" elections of better people or parties. Albeit, he shows in 11/9 that he is less and less convinced that any of the big political parties (Democrats or Republicans) are very good and yet he still believes new faces of new politicians can make the changes needed.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: inherit; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; color: #575757; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;">I agree and disagree continually with Moore's ways of "teaching" to make this improvement in society (especially, America). I won't go into this further and further but I have already said, that he doesn't handle the topic of fear very well because he has no theory of a praxis of fearlessness... he cannot get beyond victimization politics and emotionalism (see how he uses emotional close-up shots of faces of people in this film--it is really his main way of getting emotional reactions out of people--and manipulating affect for political and ideological gain--he's seemingly fine with that approach).</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: inherit; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; color: #575757; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;">I cannot explain what it is but there is something very important in Moore's art in this world today. I have said often (see my <a href="https://fearlessnessmovement.ning.com/blog/mixing-art-activism-education-michael-moore-s-new-film" target="_blank" rel="noopener">latest video</a> on responding to Moore and his 11/9 film just released) that I wish I could find a way to collaborate and advise Moore in his films. They are all, more or less, about Culture Wars (in a meta-context of a culture of fear)--and, now, in this latest film 11/9 Moore says very clearly that "evil" is here and we have to get rid of it. But unfortunately, he doesn't just scare people with this and images of the Third Reich (Germany, 1930s), he doesn't offer any deeper analysis and understanding (like from Hannah Arendt and her study of the "banality of evil" and how everyone contributes to the success of evil, if you want to call it that). No, Moore keeps things too clean and simple, and he searches for the iconic images of "glory" in his battle with the dark forces on the planet. And no more will you find his iconic (emotionalism) being played out but in the last 15 seconds or so when he takes one of the victims of the Florida mass shooting event in 2018 Spring, and zooms in on one of the high school students faces, eyes, at a podium, standing in silence, looking at the crowd, the viewer... this is what Moore likes to do--to try to show the "glory" of the traumatized fighting back, with this young woman's message and look of defiance to the authorities and those not responsible for ending gun accessibility to too many unsuitable people in America. Moore wants her face all over the screen--and, what I see is a young person highly traumatized fighting with bravado... some courage... and, a long ways away from fearlessness. This tells me the "gap" in Moore's secular activist work, and how he really has no model for liberation but continually talks about justice, peace, and such... but so does not seem to understand the nature and role of fear (and fearlessness)... he misses the "path" over and over, but comes so close to guiding people in a sacred way to "truth"--he rather, likes emotionalism-truth of victims (sad as that may be)--but that isn't enough Mr. Moore... you've not seen the bigger picture of what liberation is about. You ought to know better! Your award winning 2002 movie, long ago, had all the directions to take to deal with better understanding Culture Wars (especially in America)--and the culture of fear it produces. It seems you (Mr. Moore) have gone for the quick-fix cheap emotional hit to try to "win" an election with better candidates (not that this is a bad thing)... sorry, history shows that there is no ultimate victory or even small victory over evil, if we as a species do not do the deeper sacred healing and transformation of 'evil' (if you want to call it that)... I offer, as a fearologist, a much more nuanced analysis to the Fear Problem (Evil Problem)... and, I do that by not just putting icons of "glory" of victimization and trauma up as the "one's to follow" or "one's to inspire"--that's an old strategy that doesn't purvey the true spirit of fearlessness in a mature form, it is an immature form (better than nothing, sure)...</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: inherit; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; color: #575757; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;">Just some thoughts for Mr. Moore and his followers... and, for fearologists of the future who will be needed to help out this situation that won't go away--call it "evil" if you want.</p>
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