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Originally this blog was about my student exchange to Montreal and North America (and later, south and cental america). This was the 'chaos land' of the title. However, once overseas I soon realised that Australia (and especially Sydney) was the real chaos land, -I would monitor Australian news with increasing feelings of trepidation, in reaction to all the huge and worrying political changes Australia is going through, eg industrial relations laws. So this blog is dedicated to trying to understand the chaos of this world, to find its beauty, and to direct its energy to something good and life affirming.
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I've realised that I need to be an amoeba rather than a rigid box. (i love saying random things like that) -I want to be adaptable rather than opinionated.
I just can't believe how closed- minded I have been over the last few weeks- really negative about what I judge to be peoples' bureaucratic, non-participatory way of doing things; and setting up a block when confronting them about it - but my attitude is exactly what perpetuates their behaviour- judging other peoples' politics in exactly the way I hated other people doing it to me when I first got involved... What a waste of the experience that I have built up!!!-
Bitterness and judgementalism-when they exist- tend to trump all of the other amazing things that one gains. People need so much SUPPORT to flourish as effective activists- they need to be listened to- not told that I totally disagree with their ideas... I guess being self- righteous is a protective measure in an unfamiliar environment. The best thing a foreign activist can do is to listen, to try to understand the context, and to tell stories and initiate dialogue where there are diverse ways of seeing things.
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