Yin Yang

Like all of mine, this is not a fully developed thought. This one especially will probably need major revisions and restructuring, not just lots of edits, but I wanted to put it out there now, to get it flowing.

I do not subscribe to dualism, such as Mind and Body or Spirit and Material. I believe the nature of reality is more intricately nuanced than such oversimplified concepts, and that dualism allows for the possibility of paradoxes and false dilemmas. Therefore, metaphysically speaking, I'm sort of in the range of agnostic-atheist-animist-pantheist. I'm of the Eastern mindset: Hinduism, Buddhism, and Daoism.

But for simplicity's sake we use models to represent reality. Models are true only so far as they function to be useful. When the helicentric model could produce more useful predictions than the geocentric model, it became the prevailing model; that is, after the intellectual authorities were overthrown by the heretics they oppressed. Such has always been the way. We need different authorities that don't oppress, and a different system altogether that evolves better, dontchathink?

So let's use an oversimplified model that can be useful at one scale, even though we know it does not truly, accurately represent reality at most scales: the yin yang. You can call ot whatever you like or use any other similar model. The Judeo-Christians use Jehovah and Lucifer. However, in their Book everyone assumes Jehovah is good and Lucifer is evil, but if you simply judge them by their fruits you'll see the reverse is true.

Regardless, it doesn't matter if you use a chess board. The point is that black and white or any two contrasting poles are diametrically opposed in an eternal struggle.

I'm going to use yin and yang. But black and white thinking is inadequate. It will blind you if you believe that white is right and black is wrong, or the opposite, or that there is no other. So many people are stuck in that mode of thinking, and we see so much suffering as a result.

But for now, forget that truth for the purpose of using the model.

Yin has been ascribed qualities such as black, passive, and feminine. Yang has been ascribed qualities such as white, active, and masculine.

Our now-singular global culture, transnational corporate post-industrial capitalism, is out of balance. It has way too much Yang, and much of that Yang is toxic to boot. It must be cleansed to restore the system.

This toxic Yang is like an invasive species. It is invasive surgery not required. It is oppressive. It is police pacification and brutality. 

It is the War on Drugs, Terrorism, Gangs, Crime, Poverty, Vice, etc.

It is colonialism. It is slavery and wage slavery. It is plastic surgery, designer clothes, advertising, shallowness.

Toxic Yang works against rather than with. It is a thoughtless machine. Build up, rather than striking down. Sometimes a doctor must stop the bleeding, but it is better to build a society where people freely choose to raise healthy individuals who don't need constant amputations. The world has truly gone mad!

Instead, it is generally better to build and invite what you want rather than constantly tear down what you do not want. Of course, healthy system management is more complex than that. As a problem solving exercise, imagine the doctor who must treat the gun shot wound victims, who are also dying of diabetes from lack of healthy food and diet choices, and the police keep shooting people outside your hospital because the citizens are revolting against unjust laws. Where do you even begin?! Everywhere.

What we need is preventative, holistic healthcare and alternative treatment options. We need harm reduction programs, decriminalized sex work, and safe, free reproductive healthcare to include abortions.

We need guaranteed adequate housing for all in mixed-use, mixed-income neighborhoods that are oriented around pedestrians, bicycles, and mass transit, not automobiles, regardless of whether they are self-driving or electric, or not.

We need fully funded education for everyone that is fair and not based solely on the local tax base, or charity organizations. Teachers should be paid well and unionized. Students should be free to learn what they desire in exciting ways, not taught obedience training and rote memorization of facts and performance testing. Instead, we should focus on emotional intelligence, critical thinking, problem solving, and developing real world skills they will need. Sudbury Valley and Montessori offer two models.

We need community protection, not militarized forces policing other communities. We absolutely must divest law enforcement departments and reinvest in social work field officers, clinics, EMTs, and other services. Police departments have been hiring fascists, white supremacists, and other abusive people for years. They must purge their departments of these toxic insider threats to the community if law enforcement ever hopes to regain the trust as those who risk their lives to protect and serve. Communities must hire within and police within. There must not be a "thin blue line"; if law enforcement are not held accountable, then there is no trust.

This can be extrapolated to the macro level. The world's secret police, the CIA, has been running drug smuggling, torture programs, and overthrowing democracies essentially since its inception. Trump's attempted coup in 2020 was the most brazen. The CIA were all too eager to learn from their Nazi predecessors whom they emigrated secretly and illegally; see Operation Paperclip.

The CIA is a far-right wing terrorist organization unaccountable to the public or the American government for that matter. The CIA and their partner Mossad are rogue terrorist governments. They (and the Israeli government) must be disbanded, and their secrets declassified and made public.

The United States military is only the public face of this terrorist organization, the larger not-so-secret wars that the transnational corporate juggernaut wages upon the world. The United States military-industrial complex (which bleeds over into Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Tech, and the like) is the economy. That must all change.

The United States military budget must shrink to 10% of its current size. The overseas bases must be sold at cost to joint host nation-United Nations. NATO and all other international military alliances must cease. The United Nations Security Council must undergo serious reform. I suggest abolishing the veto and adding four Southern Hemisphere nations as permanent members, such as Brazil, Kenya or Nigeria, Egypt, and India, as a minimum for reform. No country may make military action upon another without incurring the wrath of the entire world.

End the arms trade. That is the stupidest waste of natural resources, human effort, and suffering.

Empower organizations such as Doctors Without Borders, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Transparency International, International Criminal Court, and so forth.

That is all for now. I will return to edit and improve upon this.