#NotMonsters #NotThinking #LucasBean

https://lucasbean.substack.com/p/many-trump-supporters-are-not-evil

"The Trump supporter who never asked what was happening at the border is not off the hook because they did not personally separate a family. The voter who cheered for disruption without asking what would be disrupted is not absolved because they did not personally threaten a judge.

Thoughtlessness has consequences. And the consequences do not become less real because the person producing them stopped thinking before they could feel responsible for them.

You do not have to be evil to make evil possible.

You just have to stop thinking.

The most dangerous people in any fascist movement are never the ones at the top.

They are the ordinary people at the bottom who keep showing up.

And the first step toward stopping them is being precise about exactly what they are doing.

Not monsters exactly.

People who stopped asking questions.

And people who stop asking questions can start again.

The question is whether they will.

Or will their ego force them to remain quiet."

“Thinking up stories is hard. Getting them to come to you is easier.”

~ Lynda Barry

in ‘Lynda Barry on writing without thinking’
by Mason Currey

#Writing #Creativity #NotThinking #RockWallaby #AusAnimals

Learning Not To Think
If learning how to think is important, so is learning how not to think.

#learning #HowToThink #HowNotToThink #thinking #NotThinking #meditation #mindfulness #metacognition #MentalHealth #newdir

I saw this ad for #Disney #christmas ornaments a few weeks ago. I can't help thinking No One really considered where they were placing the hook on Gaston.

Maybe it's just me...

#Oops #NotThinking #FunnyShit

Thinking and Not Thinking
Not thinking helps you think better.

#thinking #NotThinking #meditation #philosophy