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This world is not what we hoped

We vow to tell the truth.
We vow to resist amnesia.
We vow to leave you maps—
even if they are tear-stained,
hand-drawn, and incomplete.

We do not expect you to be grateful

But

we do hope you’ll be free.

You are the continuation.

Changing the Water On systems, power, and the courage to stop wrestling pigs.

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The Book of Unlearning - Vol. 1 A field guide for remembering who we are beneath the rules we were taught to obey.

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Empires rise on fear and fall to tenderness.
Every revolution that endures—civil rights, labor, climate, gender—has love at its core: love for people, for planet, for possibility.
Love is what reminds us we belong to one another.

Entire systems depend on hopelessness.
An exhausted public will accept cruelty as normal; a hopeful one will organize.
That’s why every tyrant calls dreamers delusional—because hope is contagious and uncontrollable.
Hope turns citizens into builders, victims into witnesses, onlookers into creators.

Of course, cutting SNAP was planned - of course

Cruelty is the point

zero compassion

Why?

Empathy threatens hierarchies.

If you feel another’s pain as your own,
domination becomes impossible.

The Republican Party allows millions to starve

Why aren't we walking out of work? Shut them down.

Empathy threatens hierarchies.
If you feel another’s pain as your own, domination becomes impossible.
So power teaches distance early: boys shamed for crying, girls praised for “toughening up,” workers told to “leave feelings at the door.”

YUP A mother applying for food assistance must answer pages of questions, prove her poverty with pay stubs, and humiliation, while billionaires receive tax breaks.

That, my friends,
is what we call "The architecture of Trump: Cruelty is the point
The
Republican Party = "let them starve."

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is refusing to let fear decide.
Audre Lorde warned that silence will not protect us, because protection bought with complicity is not protection at all—it is participation.

Your voice will not always be safe.

But, know this:

Each word of truth is an act of rebellion against forgetting.

The fear you feel when you speak is the sound of
the cage unlocking.

Silence feels like armor,
but
it corrodes from the inside.

What we refuse to say
becomes what controls us.

Speech is risk; so is quiet.

The only difference is WHO benefits from your silence.

When you speak, you might lose comfort.

When you stay silent, someone else loses freedom.

Silence protects the structure, not the soul.

The moment you name what’s happening,

power flinches

In our own time, silence keeps repeating itself—
in workplaces where harassment is whispered about but never reported;
in classrooms where banned books disappear without a fight;
in nations where neighbors vanish and the rest look away.

Power counts on silence—it calculates it into every decision.

When the machinery of cruelty hums without protest, it assumes consent.

The cage of silence is made of unspoken bargains:

If I stay quiet,

maybe they’ll spare me.

The 6% inflict cruelty.
The 60% look away.
The 30% resists.
We are the 30%.
Let's find each other.
Document everything.
Don't stop.
We outnumber them 5-to-1.

Refuse to look away.

Protect truth, memory, and the vulnerable.

Build systems that outlast tyrants.

Live as evidence that compassion is power.

The 6% test humanity. The 28% renew it

The “6 % rule” isn’t formal science—it’s shorthand for data on antisocial traits (~4–6%).
The rest mirrors social-psychology findings: most people conform (Milgram 1963; Zimbardo 1971).
Only a minority resists—history’s moral immune system. What must be done now:

Refuse to look away.

Studies suggest ~6% of people show psychopathic or sadistic traits (Hare 1993; Paulhus & Williams 2002; Buckels et al. 2013).
About 60% comply or look away.
The remaining 28% choose conscience, resistance, or repair.
Civilization depends on them.

All of the above - this is intentional
A pattern of cruelty

1984 - anyone?

Texas Women, protect yourself and your children

Collecting evidence as a hopeful indicator for the future

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Of course - we know the pattern -

Jews in ovens
A dear friend’s parents survived Auschwitz and he was born in a DP camp in Poland - he has been practicing law for almost 35 years and he is a direct link

History is made of patterns

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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At 2:13 p.m. on January 6, 2021, a man in a red Make America Great Again hat began assembling a gallows on the Capitol lawn. The rope was 50 feet of yellow nylon, the kind used for dock lines—strong enough to hold a ship, strong enough to hold a neck.
This was not spontaneity.

"Gaslighting" from the 1938 play Gas Light, where a husband manipulates his wife into doubting her perception.

But gaslighting is not just psychological—it is legal.
It is the use of law to make people question their own reality, to make cruelty seem normal, to make resistance seem unreasonable.

Fascism doesn’t arrive in jackboots. It arrives in suits and ties, in procedural motions, in judges’ robes. It arrives when the courts say we can’t interfere, when the newspapers call it controversial, when the history books call it complicated.
In Germany, they called it restoring order.

Trump's fascism is white "supremacy" disguised as cruelty—the ugliest aspect of human nature—turned into policy and a war on decency.

A photo of the book cover, James, by Percival Everett

Is it me or the fact that I am reading Percival Everett’s book, James - but does it feel in addition to fascism - that the South is rising ?

True, we are living under authoritarianism.
We are narrated by it. The greatest trick power ever pulled wasn’t brute force.
It was storytelling.
And America is a nation built not just on stolen land,
but on seductive fictions. We are taught to believe certain things are facts
They are lies.