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    To End Hate We Gotta Walk the Talk: Ten Big Ideas that Could Change the World
    To End Hate We Gotta Walk the Talk: Ten Big Ideas that Could Change the World
    To End Hate We Gotta Walk the Talk: Ten Big Ideas that Could Change the World
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    To End Hate We Gotta Walk the Talk: Ten Big Ideas that Could Change the World

    By Jack Preston King

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    We can end hate. We can transform global culture. We can change the world.

    To accomplish Big Goals like these, we’ll need Big Ideas to inspire us.

    Here are ten of mine:

    1. Be a cultural revolutionary, not just a political one.

    2. Wage Peace (don’t just fight a war against war).

    3. Have the right kind of courage.

    4. Walk the talk (live your values, don’t just talk about them).

    5. Learn to love (not just tolerate) people who don’t look, think or act like you.

    6. Stop projecting your fears, faults and failures (especially onto People of Color).

    7. Demand a world that works for everybody (know the ten nonnegotiables).

    8. Choose everyone’s happiness, not just your own.

    9. Be the kind of person who saves the world.

    10. Learn how your brain shapes reality – then use that knowledge to reshape reality!

    If you think any of these Big Ideas are pie-in-the-sky nonsense, you’re wrong.

    Read this book. Learn the truth. Be inspired.

    Then get busy ending hate, transforming global culture, and changing the world.

    The future is in your hands!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Paradigm Press
    Release dateMar 28, 2019
    ISBN9780463892855
    To End Hate We Gotta Walk the Talk: Ten Big Ideas that Could Change the World
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    Jack Preston King

    Jack Preston King is the author of "In Defense of Magical Thinking: Essays in Defiance of Conformity to Reason" and other books for rebels against the spiritual, creative, and cultural status quo. He writes unruly poems, short stories and novels, too. Visit him on the web at jackprestonking.com. He's also on Twitter, Medium and Facebook.

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      To End Hate We Gotta Walk the Talk - Jack Preston King

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      To End Hate We Gotta Walk the Talk

      Ten Big Ideas that Could Change the World

      Copyright © 2019 by Jack Preston King

      Published by New Paradigm Press

      All Rights Reserved

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      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Brief quotes from books and websites used throughout this book are reproduced under Fair Use guidelines of US Copyright law. Questions or concerns? Email the author at jackprestonking@gmail.com.

      Cover design by Jack Preston King.

      Cover art via Pixabay.com/CC0 License.

      Contents

      Steal This Hero – How Abbie Hoffman Made Me a Social Justice Warrior

      A YIPPIE! Love Song in Two Verses, One Chorus and a Coda

      I Fought the Government and Love Won.

      War, Peace, and the Embarrassing Question of Love

      The Weight That Isn't There

      Anxiety and Finding the Courage to Go Home

      To End Hate, We Gotta Walk the Talk

      Aristotle on Why Professing Liberal Values is Nowhere Near Enough

      Change Yourself, Change the World

      Human Nature, Second Nature, and Extending the Boundaries of our Affections

      Hey White People – Here’s What We Owe People of Color

      A Jungian Look at What It Means to Be an Ally

      Is a World That Works for Everybody Possible?

      Yes, Because We All Want the Same 10 Things

      How to Transform the World with a Single Choice

      A Holiday Conversation Starter, Courtesy of the Dalai Lama

      The Kind of Person Who Saves the World

      How to Be That Person. Hurry, the World Needs You.

      The Magic Word — According to Neuroscience, a Single Word Could Literally Save the World

      Can You Keep a Secret?

      Bibliography and Recommended Reading

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      Steal This Hero – How Abbie Hoffman Made Me a Social Justice Warrior

      A YIPPIE! Love Song in Two Verses, One Chorus and a Coda

      On December 31st, 1967, the great political activist and cultural revolutionary Abbie Hoffman (and friends) launched the Youth International Party, better known as YIPPIE!

      From Wikipedia:

      The Youth International Party, whose members were commonly called Yippies, was an American radically youth-oriented and countercultural revolutionary offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the 1960s… They employed theatrical gestures, such as advancing a pig (Pigasus the Immortal) as a candidate for President in 1968, to mock the social status quo. They have been described as a highly theatrical, anti-authoritarian and anarchist youth movement of symbolic politics … The group was known for street theater pranks and was once referred to as the Groucho Marxists.

      I was barely four years old, and living a long way from NYC, on that cold December night when YIPPIE! was born. But just a decade and some change later, when I was a Midwest small town teen in the early ‘80s, Abbie Hoffman’s writing would trigger my rebel gene and set my young mind on fire. Abbie became my first and only head over heels, I wanna be this guy, teenage man-crush hero. Reading his work changed the whole direction of my life. What follows is the story of that encounter.

      Trigger warning: I wrote the original version of this essay on hearing the news of Abbie’s 1989 suicide, so know in advance that’s where the story ends. The purpose of this essay was, and remains, to honor the man’s life and his death. Abbie Hoffman was a real American hero of the Left that every aspiring Social Justice Warrior should study, remember and love. Especially in trying times like these.

      Prelude:

      In my early college study of Social Psychology, there was this theory connecting the hero-worship of public figures to the Freudian Oedipus Complex. No matter how sincere one's admiration for a celebrity or other public figure, the theory went, once it reaches the level of hero-worship – once one begins to personally identify with the public figure, to take his or her image as a role model – there arises a psychological dark side, an Oedipus Complex, with Society itself fulfilling the mother’s role. At this stage, the hero-worshipper's conscious identification becomes balanced in the unconscious by a secret desire for the hero's death. Externally, in his thoughts, words and actions, the hero-worshipper extols the virtues of his hero, of his or her accomplishments in the world. Internally, however, he longs to be, himself, admired and extolled for the hero's virtues, to claim the hero's accomplishments as his own. He secretly wishes for the hero's death that he might personally ascend to take the hero's place in society.

      This theory was used, in part, to explain public reaction to the deaths of figures like John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King. With the actual death of the hero, his admirers must deal not only with their understandable conscious mourning, but with the effects of the hidden wish as well. An unexpected, two-fold psychological reaction

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