{"id":412,"date":"2025-01-05T05:14:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T20:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/?p=412"},"modified":"2025-01-05T05:15:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T20:15:41","slug":"breaking-together-jem-bendell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Breaking Together<\/strong> (Jem Bendell)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If similar to myself, then you are still largely insulated from the increasing difficulties in the world. The daily reality we live is not one that either witnesses or feels, fully and constantly, the horrific suffering and destruction that is involved in producing our everyday comforts or our sense of safety and superiority. Therefore, we don\u2019t experience any relief or even elation from knowing this system of destruction is being disrupted, will be reduced, and may even come to an end. If we fully felt the pain of our entanglement with that obscenity, we would be open to an openness and curiosity to that breaking down, including the instabilities, difficulties and hardships that will typify the rest of our lives. This does not mean we are against the industrial consumer societies that dominate humanity today or are even anti-civilization in our sentiment. It simply means that we are not only grieving their loss but we also do not see a useful role in trying to prop them up any longer. The multiple foundations of modern societies that are all breaking together, at the same time, mean we can choose for ourselves to be either breaking together or breaking apart. When I say \u2018breaking together\u2019 I mean allowing the breakdowns in our privileges, comforts, worldviews and identities, to allow a new openness for connection with people, nature and even the eternal. We can also allow this breaking to reconnect us with aspects of who we are that have been hidden under the social conditioning we\u2019ve experienced since birth. We have tended to cling to the products of that conditioning, in order to feel safe, respected, capable and able to have fun in ways we already know. But we\u2019ve got to let go and begin breaking together. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If similar to myself, then you are still largely insulated from the increasing difficulties in the world. The  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}