Today's protests and the conversations we are still not ready to have

How do people face the place we are in now, a place that is living in an Empire? How do people living in an Empire conceive of themselves? This takes place in the non-thinking realm of the subconscious.  This is the level in all of us, a deeper level, which de-facto at a remove from language (and therefore the delusion of Truth which language makes possible).  And this level, to me is the ultimate level: on a subconscious level we are acting as rationally as can be.

That different races within the central states of an Empire exist in difference with one another is painfully, deathfully evident. Injustices are being done to a race that is not ours and we abide it.  The protests-riots after George Floyd's murder represent a release of frustration that has been building for decades as white people have pushed their advantage while at the same time offering endless paeans to equality – there is not an endless font of money for all to approach equally to collect any sum that they dream about: it is a zero-sum resource meaning it is finite, that the more any person has the less another person or group may have. And our pesky and honest subconscious in alliance with evolution (at deterministic levels we cannot consciously admit) makes us take, take all we can because the more we have the better we might pass on our genes. 

Christianity has been repurposed to assuage our souls, seeing transgressions as ethereal. Initially Christianity had a non-zero view of the spiritual realm - equality possible in the afterlife. But old Christianity was very much existing in a zero-sum world, luxury only for a few in the physical world and which Christianity a necessarily had to operate within.

But we've all gone past that now in the United State-core of Empire. Prosperity gospels abound now - we all want "our share" which really means we want it all, we want the resources to out-compete other groups, other members of our own group – in that sense Floyd was symbolically all black people and Chauvin was symbolically White America - the look on Chauvin's face is emblematic of the whites' subconscious – being so matter-of-fact in how it gains advantage.

Out loud many white people decry this physical inequality, decry this violence. Others, out loud, and in opinions they keep to themselves accept this physical inequality. The former group while still indubitably following the dictates of the evolutionary-subconscious team feel compelled to act. They move forward into the realm of the conscious replete with assumptions and logical workarounds. Honestly of course some white people in this former group approach the selflessness of a white civil rights activist dying at the hands of racist whites in the 1960s, people like William Lewis Moore, Rev. Bruce Klunder, and white civil rights workers Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner who were killed alongside their black ally James Chaney.

The other group of white people, the ones who accept the way things are, do not state explicitly their thoughts blaming black people for their own abhorrent situation.  They place themselves in a fantastically envisioned world pervaded by rationality where their absolute dependence on the structure of society to secure their advantage goes ignored.  Both groups of whites live in a state of delusion.

They are still unified in accepting the advantages though and changing this acceptance of the state of affairs requires that they receive less. Allowing black people to be truly equal partners in an Empire means a reduction in white people's income. And this is very difficult because, as I've stressed, evolution demands complete dominance and in the pseudo-rational conscious world we do not even have/use/permit the language of the subconscious to be spoken.

That voice now, if heard, if we could allow it and work with it - if we might get into a conversation with evolution and its commands, must come in the form of a questioning of Empire, our default states of existence, a state of existence that serves most of White America just fine, a state of affairs that still nonetheless is malleable, however being a state of affairs that must be acknowledged as being uber-entrenched. It will be painful to alter our relationship to this state of affairs - the method we are going forward with now, as it does not address this kind of pain, will likely not change the situation.

What new protocols are being considered? What new ways of interacting are going to be put in place? And what stories we will tell ourselves about why these protocols and ways of interacting do not create meaningful change?