There’s the thing:
I don’t need help right now.
You do.
Elliot Anderson
Mr Robot S4 E9
As soon as you’re born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you’re clever and they despise a fool
Till you’re so fucking crazy you can’t follow their rules
As soon as you’re born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working-class hero is something to be
A working-class hero is something to be
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you’re clever and they despise a fool
Till you’re so fucking crazy you can’t follow their rules
A working-class hero is something to be
A working-class hero is something to be
When they’ve tortured and scared you for 20 odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can’t really function you’re so full of fear
A working-class hero is something to be
A working-class hero is something to be
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you’re so clever and classless and free
But you’re still fucking peasants as far as I can see
A working-class hero is something to be
A working-class hero is something to be
There’s room at the top they’re telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working-class hero is something to be
Yes, a working-class hero is something to be
If you want to be a hero well just follow me
If you want to be a hero well just follow me
Every evil begins with someone saying to another: “I am going to help you”.
Milos Foreman
From
Completely Cuckoo: Documentary of the making of “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.
Michael Leunig…
Had the privilege of having my voice heard at World Hearing Voices Congress in Montreal last week.
This is for all those who were there with us, and especially those who appreciated this one. And even more, it’s for for those who didn’t get to be there …
“Its spelled that way because you gotta be a bit of a shit to call someone names like that.”
– Dave Umbongo.
Schitzophrenia is a socially constructed contagion.
One that can only be contracted by spending too much time in close proximity with people called “mental health professionals” .
[and many others help captive by the master narrative / orthodoxy that if you live with and struggle with difficult experiences there is something wrong with you/ your brain/ your genes.]
and…
If you don’t give it to me then I won’t need to “recover” from it.
Facts are simple and facts are straight
Facts are lazy and facts are late
Facts all come with points of view
Facts don’t do what I want them to
Facts just twist the truth around
Facts are living turned inside out
Facts are getting the best of them
Facts are nothing on the face of things
Facts don’t stain the furniture
Facts go out and slam the door
Facts are written all over your face
Facts continue to change their shape
– Talking Heads
I was lucky to get to listen to Yvette Paerrault talk for two hours as guest speaker last week at a team retreat ….
This talk covers some similar ground so you can hear Yvette too.
Yvette Perrault of AIDS Bereavement and Resiliency Program, Ontario
How do we draw on ways teams developed resiliency in AIDS crisis in ways that can be useful now in the current opiod crisis?
Short video in which George Monbiot outlines the true and most lasting legacy of the colonial project that takes its lead from Columbus and the way of thinking
that says …
“We do whatever we like, because,
well, because we can.”
We’re still doing it.
We still think its ok to keep doing it.
So, while you’re giving thanks for what is good to be thankful for today
we invite you to also spend a moment thinking on
that which we need to make a choice stop.
a
agnotarte
dave umbongo
drkenplacebo
recovery network: Toronto 
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