A Wednesday in May, Synchronised
by Gitte Sætre
The day we stood united on street corners and looked out over the landscape, we felt it in our bodies. We knew where we wanted to go and what we wanted to do, and the wind periodically blew through everything. On this day, the wind must have thought its task was to keep human degeneracy under control.
Human nature cannot be left to govern itself, nor is it even sufficient to give the responsibility of this to God or the Prophet.
The people walked up five floors and locked themselves into a room on the left side of the corridor. The door opened with seven breaths and the effect of Eros. A fantastic sight it was, to see how incomprehensible grief united us and equipped us to carry out a task of this magnitude. A transcendental quality of social movement filled the room. The social upheaval transformed reality, such that the walls moved and made room for all who gathered.
The Eros effect is said to arise the moment when the basic preconditions of a system disappear.[1]
The Eros effect spread synchronically and became a healing force, making us act in ways that extended beyond our own personal interests. We adopted ecological values and convictions. We simultaneously became teachers and students of the new system. The distant future could be sensed and gave us mutual happiness; a new ‘now’ existed amongst us. People continued streaming up the stairs, and genuine democracy became the norm: even those who still stood on the corner and had not yet gone up listened to the new reality and knew that we now lived in a new political era.
Fear is still deeply imbedded in bodies; everything must be shepherded at all times.
A darkness darker than light could allow had pervaded individuals and society for so long, it required a series of strategies that cut deep into both the individual and the socio-structural level. At all times, we were at school, listening and sharing with one another. The most difficult job was to rid ourselves of patterns from the old world order, and various performative rituals made it possible to navigate the unknown. Our rituals had different aims: some gave us direct knowledge through our senses; others helped us develop pictures to help us get in touch with the best version of ourselves.
At the end of the day, we were wise enough not to seek a unified truth or simplified version of our complexity. We took one step at a time and continued developing an inchoate language that not only made it possible to move forward, but also helped increase our passion for what we had set out to do. This took effort, since we had lived so long in a society where love had been sacrificed on the altar of market-steered liberalism. Exercise by exercise – this is how we learned to listen to culture. Even those who had been involved in politics a long time learned this art, but much time would pass before they were allowed to participate in any form of political work. Only in this way could we carry out our project of rescue.
The question of what had made the breakthrough possible fascinated us. We wondered if the movement had emerged out of sheer good luck. Why had the breakthrough not happened earlier? Could it have come much later? It had been impossible to predict whether and when it would come. The fact was that it had come. Someone must have been working behind the scenes and had a hunch about where it was smart to dig and sow seeds. The element of luck, I would say, was that someone acted at just the right moment, got the ball rolling, and that we were all there and knew intuitively what to do. The world must have been ready for it, and it happened in different places at about the same time.
1: The most comprehensive plan ever, proposed to reverse global warming: the publication “Drawdown” described the 100 most reliable solutions to address climate change, which could roll back global warming within thirty years. It showed that humanity have the means at hand. Nothing new needs to be invented. The solutions are in place and should be used by all.
2: In western Kurdistan, under the most difficult conditions anyone could imagine, a new political movement emerged, which inexplicably managed to think up and implement a military, cultural and mental counter-attack, not merely against IS, but also against the oppressive global machinery of propaganda.
3: The Asian-Pacific war never took place. Some people say it was averted by the Black Lives Matter movement in opposition to the white man’s arrogance. Donald Trump and his administration realised that they had to secure the situation to avoid a new civil war in North America.
4: In Scandinavia - of all places - a new global ecological movement emerge called the Green Hijab Movement. The movement increased awareness across cultural and religious division and started a new way of thinking about biodiversity and technology.
5: An Eritrean artist carried out perhaps the most impressive performance in art history outside the EU Parliament. The performance managed to dissect power-structures and made it close to impossible for future geopolitical agreements to be based upon this system again. Some people say that this could not have happened if the world had not experienced the Venezuelan people’s ability to meet the death of the old ideology in Venezuela.
by Gitte Sætre
The day we stood united on street corners and looked out over the landscape, we felt it in our bodies. We knew where we wanted to go and what we wanted to do, and the wind periodically blew through everything. On this day, the wind must have thought its task was to keep human degeneracy under control.
Human nature cannot be left to govern itself, nor is it even sufficient to give the responsibility of this to God or the Prophet.
The people walked up five floors and locked themselves into a room on the left side of the corridor. The door opened with seven breaths and the effect of Eros. A fantastic sight it was, to see how incomprehensible grief united us and equipped us to carry out a task of this magnitude. A transcendental quality of social movement filled the room. The social upheaval transformed reality, such that the walls moved and made room for all who gathered.
The Eros effect is said to arise the moment when the basic preconditions of a system disappear.[1]
The Eros effect spread synchronically and became a healing force, making us act in ways that extended beyond our own personal interests. We adopted ecological values and convictions. We simultaneously became teachers and students of the new system. The distant future could be sensed and gave us mutual happiness; a new ‘now’ existed amongst us. People continued streaming up the stairs, and genuine democracy became the norm: even those who still stood on the corner and had not yet gone up listened to the new reality and knew that we now lived in a new political era.
Fear is still deeply imbedded in bodies; everything must be shepherded at all times.
A darkness darker than light could allow had pervaded individuals and society for so long, it required a series of strategies that cut deep into both the individual and the socio-structural level. At all times, we were at school, listening and sharing with one another. The most difficult job was to rid ourselves of patterns from the old world order, and various performative rituals made it possible to navigate the unknown. Our rituals had different aims: some gave us direct knowledge through our senses; others helped us develop pictures to help us get in touch with the best version of ourselves.
At the end of the day, we were wise enough not to seek a unified truth or simplified version of our complexity. We took one step at a time and continued developing an inchoate language that not only made it possible to move forward, but also helped increase our passion for what we had set out to do. This took effort, since we had lived so long in a society where love had been sacrificed on the altar of market-steered liberalism. Exercise by exercise – this is how we learned to listen to culture. Even those who had been involved in politics a long time learned this art, but much time would pass before they were allowed to participate in any form of political work. Only in this way could we carry out our project of rescue.
The question of what had made the breakthrough possible fascinated us. We wondered if the movement had emerged out of sheer good luck. Why had the breakthrough not happened earlier? Could it have come much later? It had been impossible to predict whether and when it would come. The fact was that it had come. Someone must have been working behind the scenes and had a hunch about where it was smart to dig and sow seeds. The element of luck, I would say, was that someone acted at just the right moment, got the ball rolling, and that we were all there and knew intuitively what to do. The world must have been ready for it, and it happened in different places at about the same time.
1: The most comprehensive plan ever, proposed to reverse global warming: the publication “Drawdown” described the 100 most reliable solutions to address climate change, which could roll back global warming within thirty years. It showed that humanity have the means at hand. Nothing new needs to be invented. The solutions are in place and should be used by all.
2: In western Kurdistan, under the most difficult conditions anyone could imagine, a new political movement emerged, which inexplicably managed to think up and implement a military, cultural and mental counter-attack, not merely against IS, but also against the oppressive global machinery of propaganda.
3: The Asian-Pacific war never took place. Some people say it was averted by the Black Lives Matter movement in opposition to the white man’s arrogance. Donald Trump and his administration realised that they had to secure the situation to avoid a new civil war in North America.
4: In Scandinavia - of all places - a new global ecological movement emerge called the Green Hijab Movement. The movement increased awareness across cultural and religious division and started a new way of thinking about biodiversity and technology.
5: An Eritrean artist carried out perhaps the most impressive performance in art history outside the EU Parliament. The performance managed to dissect power-structures and made it close to impossible for future geopolitical agreements to be based upon this system again. Some people say that this could not have happened if the world had not experienced the Venezuelan people’s ability to meet the death of the old ideology in Venezuela.