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By Gianluigi Gugliermetto 1/16/2025 |
If you look at the history of the rise of Nazism, and you blend the postures and the job descriptions of the Brown Shirts and the Gestapo, you get a pretty good idea of the activities of ICE in American cities today. I have gathered this impression by watching several undoctored videos. The point is to terrorize, to create a permanent climate of insecurity, to round up a large enough number of people that justifies the claim of the existence of an “internal enemy,”
and to kill on the spot those who do not comply. |
I am deeply sorry to write these words, and even more to witness the events that I am describing. I don’t think that any of us were expecting to see what we are seeing. Except — as it has been noticed — those targeted groups, such as African Americans and Native Americans, who always |
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knew in their bones what the unhinged fury of racism means and how it is always on the verge of exploding. The trauma that many white people are experiencing now is not new to them. I think that this page can be adapted very well to our circumstances today. But the next step that Matthew suggests
can also. Then, as well as now, the answer is not falling into despair because of our wee-ness, but opening ourselves to the vastness of love and pain that we can contain in it, remembering what a miracle it is to be human. Matthew writes: |
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skies and sea and power and love of which we are capable, we are still but a spark in a live wire, destined to last as long as the flash of a firework. Though we be creators and revel in it, we are created creators, not self-made creators. First, we have received. It is at this point that
Matthew explains that to recognize the wee-ness (…) is to recognize our responsibility to pass on the WHEE-NESS. He means to bequeath the possibility of the experience of the divine, of the joy of living, of ecstatic |
experience, to those who are around us, and to those who come after. He continues: What more dare we ask for, beg for, even pray for that to be instruments of something bigger than we are: instruments of ecstasy. That’s it. The deeper the dragons try to push us down and make us feel small, the higher
we need to rise. Not by making ourselves look big. And not being sorry that we cannot do enough — inflation and deflation of the ego are really not helpful, especially at this time. My plea is for us to rise in the awareness that we are already doing our job, and we are doing it pretty well, if we remember the ecstasy of life and we pass it
on. No matter what the context is. I dare say, now more than ever. |
I think that Renee Good was enjoying life, that her enjoyment gave her the strength to act in defense of others, and that the ICE thug who murdered her saw that enjoyment on her face and heard it in her words. He misunderstood it as a taunt, as deeply broken people do, |
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and fired to kill not
just her, but his own hope of redemption. Renee was murdered, but she did not die without passing on her joy and zest for life. She never meant to be a hero or a saint, but also she did not take her wee-ness as a pretext not to act, not to pass on what it means to be human. That is what we are called to do with our wee-ness. No more, no
less. |
Queries for Contemplation Do you agree that we should take all care not to use our
wee-ness as a pretext? And do you feel the connection between the acknowledgement of our wee-ness and the responsibility of passing on the WHEE-NESS? |
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