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I would normally ignore your posts, but you actually bring up some thoughtful-seeming responses for once. The situation has been deliberately designed to actively suppress all voices challenging it, I've noted. As long as we seek to teach them our side of the truth via official channels we will find no solace, no openings. Speaking up (in the myriad ways we feel 'called' towards) can still reach valuable allies as well as reach people who already know how shitty the status-quo is (and has a long 'track record' of, all documented widely). The solution is to persist. To keep comparing ourselves with so many others, and to keep promoting critical thinking and institutional analysis. To know the ways that the status-quo works to lie and obfuscate against ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE (in order to so-called Protect itself; but such only works under tyranny open or covert); and to not allow such to intimidate or silence us. To understand that they want to intimidate their fake enemies in order to silence them. So that they CAN KEEP GETTING AWAY with their severe alienation. Which is "the best" they seem to know. "Alien values are implanted into the lives of the people, precisely through the children; alien, not merely in the sense of foreign or exotic, but alien to humanity: a commerciogenic identity is formed. At first it was partly resisted, but with time, it became more and more acceptable, until it has now become a major determinant on the lives of the young, displacing all earlier forms of acculturation, other ways of answering need, other ways of being in the world. This process of forgetting, beyond recall, but perhaps not quite beyond reclamation, is a form of colonialism far more effective than that which held so much of the world in thrall in an earlier empire." ----Jeremy Seabrook in 'The Metamorphoses of Colonialsm'