adversity

i have touched

 thy face…

whose jagged edges

express the complexity

of your beauty

and tho your ways

are hard and steep

i would live to cherish

the lesson

of your experience

without the hardness

of your struggling hand

there would be no

catalyst

and without the tears

you sometimes bring

like rain

there would be no

smile

upon the face

    of the genius…

And as a man thinketh in his heart—

So is he…

The greatest fear of the oppressor and the greatest awakening of the oppressed is the perceptive expansion to visualize the concept and the attainability of freedom.

Many social hierarchies are constructed in accordance to the positive and negative perceptions of its people.

When all is said and done, we are a society of concepts, based upon psychological influences.

How influential the psychology, dictates the development of its population, its social structure and order.

The developmental building blocks of man’s inner self, which dictates the production of his acts, are deeply rooted within his own hypocrisy.

Vainly calling himself master, while he himself, is in need, of a master.

The most dehumanizing act of one man to another is the intentional and absolute robbery of the self.

To rob one of his faith, his history and his quest to dream, is greater than any manmade prison.

When one has no catalyst to defeat the negative, as his whole persona is sketched by self destruction. His family, his offspring, fall victim to a perpetual cycle of self defeat; while shaping the negative reality of present and future generations to come.

The psychology of oppression is a process of mental, physical and spiritual conditioning. Perhaps it is more appropriate to say, re-conditioning.

The psychology of oppression strikes at the very seed and growth process of the inner self.

To rearrange one’s processes of thinking, as to where the most extreme opposite becomes the new truth and the negative cycle evolves to dominate the positive. Eventually an aura of self loathing and learned helplessness becomes the norm of negative developmental thought and self perception.

Mankind, throughout its history, has utilized the elements of the psychology of oppression in many ways.

The era of American slavery of the African people, the holocaust of “Hitler’s” Germany against the Jews, the decimating apartheid regimes of European nations upon the original people of South Africa, the treatment of the Indian during the era of the American settlers, and the racist bigotry of American racism during the “Dread Scott Decision” and the “Jim Crow” era as they relate to American Black people—these are among the most egregious examples of the psychology of oppression.  

The engrained thought processes of fear and in many cases a hatred of self due to a demeaning process of humiliation and shame, perpetuate themselves deep within the subconscious mindset and serve the oppressor well, in that it conditions the oppressed to self maintain the process of re-creating the initial cycle of negative development, and consequentially, a lowered level of positive expectation and productivity.                              

Let it be clearly established, that the psychology of oppression is not confined only to implementation upon masses of people, but also within individual relationships, as well as self inflicted through individual life circumstances and perceptions.

When one has experienced throughout his/her life, a certain level of set back and defeat; that has in effect compromised, or even lowered the expectations of self.

The psychology of oppression is then self inflicted and becomes the new negative norm.

The psychology of oppression is the stagnation and removal of free thought and positive development.

When one ceases to dream upon the realm of possibilities for self and their sketch of reality is limited to the confinement of manmade ideologies and accomplishments, one has then limited their ability to expand the mind and development of the strength of the inner self.

The revelation of self realization is to understand that no one can define the essence of your inner strength, and that the catalyst of your development dwells not only within your triumphs, but more-so within the challenge to overcome adversity within the mental and spiritual consequences of life.

Mankind, in a sense, is in a constant struggle as he hypocritically creates and quotes standards of life that he himself perpetually contradicts. He then seeks to destroy he who strives against his own grain of self deception.

Remember:

He who is blessed to live beneath the sun, which rises and sets and dictates the seasons, need not be denied the creativity of dreaming, or the catalytic process of creating reality, from the boundless reaches, of a wish, or desire.