Coyote and the Serpent Monster

I was working on a post about the impending war with Iran. I'm sure most of you know about Seymour Hersh's article titled, "Preparing the Battlefield" in this weeks New Yorker magazine. Basically it states that the U.S. is amping up covert military actions in Iran. The dems and republicans are in on it. The war is planned for when the co-King is an official "lame duck." Whoever starts in as head of the U.S. government, a genocidal organization, will continue the slaughter of Iranians because "we have to finish what we started even if it is illegal" attitude that the will indeed have. So there you go with that.

What I want to talk about, however, is "coercion."

Coercion is the use of force or intimidation to obtain compliance.

If I have to be forced, coerced, into believing a certain way, good chances are I'm not gonna go along with it. Coercion has always been a tool in the patterns that I've noticed into getting people to believe in authority. Coercion is a tool used to force people to submit to an alleged higher human form of authority. Religions do this. Religions exile folks to hurt them and coerce them into believing a certain way. Warfare is also used by religions. Peace organizations and anti-civ organizations I've seen exile folks for not submitting or bowing to an alleged higher human authority.

I am a part of the world. I am not the ONLY part of the world. If I was the ONLY part of the world then there would be no other existence. I would have to deny that other parts of the world existed. If those other parts of the world kept trying to prove they existed to me, I would feel the need to force them to exist as me because I would consider myself the only part of the world.

Force is a powerful tool. It comes in many forms: warefare, exile, rape, passive-aggressive, misogyny, classism, racism, etc. If you have to use the tool of coercion...why? Why do you have to force others to submit? Why do you submit to the forces of others? Do you wish to carry on that behavior? Can you change coercive situations you find yourself in? If you use coercion, how can you stop if you choose to? How does coercion benefit you? If you use coercion, how do you have to protect yourself because the use of coercion will create a lot of enemies who fight in many different forms?

I always leave this forum to discussion from anyone. More than anything, I just put ideas out there to be accepted or challenged. What if I'm wrong? I'd like to know.