Posted by alexandra_k on July 17, 2018, at 0:49:49
In reply to Re: Paul Jay, posted by sigismund on July 17, 2018, at 0:39:04
And bananas. We brought a few crates of them back with us. Someone had them growing out in their back yard, a couple rows of banana trees. And the bananas were much smaller than the ones you see in the supermarkets these days. Much more vibrant yellow. Much more vibrant flavour. We would split them down the middle and put marshmellows and chocolate in them and wrap them in tin foil and throw them on the bbq.
Sigh. No wonder I need to sleep so much, with all these things I remember. I mean, really, not from photographs or chatting with my parents about any of this, ever...
> One possible reason for the difference between Australia and NZ is the relative unimportance of Rupert Murdoch there. New Zealand feels like a 70s beer garden to me, rather than an armed camp.
It depends on where you are at, in it.
That's what I've learned in recent years. It is hard to convey the totally distinct worlds people live in. In the same city. Trekking the same roads, even. Just the different schedules people are on and how packed or not they are etc.
Our policemen don't walk around with visible guns, sure. But we have plenty of 'security guards' throwing their weight around...
Most of the worst of it is covert. Psychological.
From people getting their jollies off insinuating that they have the power to do this, that, and the other.
From people living cowed and in fear and so on...
From what choices people make about the role they want to take up / play.
The whole victim / persecuter thing, I guess.
Every now and then I feel like I'm getting tested by people. To see whether I'll take some sort of 'bait'. A willingness to turn on others if they insinuate possible threat to me (just imply it a little bit).
I suppose the worst of it really is of our own making.
That's why I liked the hallucinogen experience. It taught me something of the power of the mind when it comes to constructing our reality. The way we see the world. Such a singificant amount of that is a contribution from our own mind. It really does show you something of the potential power for people to see things differently. TO really change ones whole experience of the world by seeing things differently.
Of course this doesn't... Condone? The atrocities that some people commit against others. The genuine abuses and horrors and so on...
But it is important. Yeah.
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