Putting aside political parties which we all best learn to do, 'Tearing the sheets of paper' was a totally non violent act. There is no personal threat or bullying in it. Rather it spoke symbolically and ritually precisely what she and many others experience when listening to the President.
His policies and attitudes in that speech and others are predominantly violent expressions trampling over the best of what many of us heard and integrated into our minds and hearts in both school and church.
The speech is words of violence toward many groups of people, toward the most disadvantaged among us, toward our national hopes of a free and equal people and toward our Earth.
Yes hold that speech up and tear it in two just like the speech, listened to indiscriminately, is designed to do to the nation.
BTW. To speak in conscious symbol is a sign of high intelligence and self control. Psychiatrist Carl Jung describes a living symbol as saying much more than words can. And it potentially can even mean and effect us far more than the persons presenting and receiving it can consciously contemplate.
Rest assured that was likely no after thought but a very designed and timed action, not unlike Rosa Parks saying to the malignant power controlling the bus that day in Montgomery: 'No thanks, I like this seat.'
Non violent response to malignant power is a beautiful thing in the world always expressing courage and humane truth. And it is an essential tool of our nation and any aspiring democracy. The times may call more of us to use it.
His policies and attitudes in that speech and others are predominantly violent expressions trampling over the best of what many of us heard and integrated into our minds and hearts in both school and church.
The speech is words of violence toward many groups of people, toward the most disadvantaged among us, toward our national hopes of a free and equal people and toward our Earth.
Yes hold that speech up and tear it in two just like the speech, listened to indiscriminately, is designed to do to the nation.
BTW. To speak in conscious symbol is a sign of high intelligence and self control. Psychiatrist Carl Jung describes a living symbol as saying much more than words can. And it potentially can even mean and effect us far more than the persons presenting and receiving it can consciously contemplate.
Rest assured that was likely no after thought but a very designed and timed action, not unlike Rosa Parks saying to the malignant power controlling the bus that day in Montgomery: 'No thanks, I like this seat.'
Non violent response to malignant power is a beautiful thing in the world always expressing courage and humane truth. And it is an essential tool of our nation and any aspiring democracy. The times may call more of us to use it.
