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Athena Lambrinidou's avatar

Hello.

For all its worth, after 35 years "in the field" of international environmental justice/human rights activism and diplomacy, my understanding of what is going on today lays more within the realm mental health/illness now to be honest. Theirs. We are dealing with people in the throws of a major mental health illness here I have come to believe.

If nothing else because in front of our very eyes they are leading us into some weird form of collective suicide (climate catastrophe). And they are angry because they want to be allowed to keep doing that. Or else. These people are not sane.

What is "wrong" with them then? Is it greed that turned into hubris? Is it a toxic mix of small man/small woman insecurity dancing with insane greed? Is it lack of courage to really have the emotional cohones to face what, existentially, actually catastrophic climate change really means? For all of us? Or are they merely morally weak? Ethically bankrupt. The ones that Jesus will send straight to Christian Hell. Not sure.

I am talking about the black caps of the Magas, as you named them. I know them because I went to school with them. They are just entitled and spoiled and insecure (because it was daddy's money and because they never scored the girls) and scared and the only way they know how to feel like they are "someone" is to bully. To steal. to terrorise. To grab women who would never in their right minds have sex with them by the p#%. And to do it being loud and proud and rude. Like the mean bully in all the movies we have all seen.

The rest of us who are not interested in these types of people taking over our world I really believe need to start stop trying to be so "diplomatic" and "nice" and start getting major pissed off and start having major attitude. It would also be really good if we could try to stop attacking each other over our skin colour or our correct use of pronouns.

Our real problem is out there. It has been for a few decades now. It is big and it is serious and we got to I believe get our collective act together. Whatever we do we I believe would also be helped by getting more sassy and having major attitude. We need to work with the street wise amongst us.

I grew up in a dictatorship. These guys are not "real men" in the pure sense of the word. They are insecure weaklings. The most dangerous kind.

The women around them? I don't know. They are copying the Kardashians and those rich wives from whichever city in the US perhaps?

I for one ain't giving my planet over to those people.

They are all living in some movie fantasy where they are creating the Hunger Games in real life. Where they are all Kevin Costner and that awful mean blond daughter of theirs in that TV series. It is kind of ridiculous whilst nuts.

We all better wake up from the stupor of shopping, posting and liking for a living. If we wish to take our planet back from these small and twisted people.

I think.

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