Breaking The Trance Of Evil

I recently reread some of Paul Levy’s penetrating teaching on how to break the trance of evil,  In his book Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil, Levy shows us that within the very force that can destroy us lies the hope of what can save our world at this time.  Levy describes wetiko as a non-local, transcendental force that cannot be adequately expressed in language, because it is not a thing. The abstract nature of the English language fails to account for such dynamic forces as wetiko that affect us all the time yet are not visible or measurable.

Gather The People To Create The Tipping

In our digital world, we are constantly being bombarded with new ideas and trends and even conspiracy theories that seek to take hold in the culture at large.  Gladwell did in-depth research spanning a number of different fields, industries, and scholarly disciplines, and identified three key factors that each play a role in determining whether a particular trend will “tip” into wide-scale popularity. Not so ironically, he calls these three variables, or “rules of epidemics”  the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, and the Power of Context.

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