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The "Right to Comfort" 

Why do we continue to support highly criminal systems of greed and extraction, knowing it abuses millions of people in its wake? How come we talk about systems change, but continue to perpetuate them? Here we go, some of my "Reverse Design" insights:

1/. We learn, and learning challenges us, it causes discomfort.

2/. Our human brain operates such that it creates a pattern from what we learn, so we do not need to relearn over and over.  

3/. Once we have these patterns, it creates comfort.

4/. We also create patterns when we learn negative stuff, our brains recognize it as learning.

5/. So when we learn white supremacy (i.e abuse of others), our brains create a pattern.

6/. Once we have that pattern, we like the comfort. 

7/. The comfort of the pattern often overrules the actual detriment of what we have learned. So we hold on to our comforts, even if it is bad for us or others.

8/. White supremacist capitalism has given us the 'right to comfort', and that is when we got really screwed, because now we have a righteousness around holding on to what screws us all.

9/. So if you want to change the world. Acknowledge what your comforts are and deconstruct your pattern.

"This is a time for straying, for losing one's way, for asking new questions. A sacred activism."
 

watch: Dear White People

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