Don Genaro said:pstott said:A situation that I am very familiar with. My spouse of 32 years just does not want to hear about anything that disturbs her picture of reality. When I have talked about such things in the past it generats anger and rejection, so I avoid such topics.
If I happen to make reference to things beyond the "normal", these days, the reaction is "whatever" and not wanting to think about it. I hate to think how she will cope when things escalate and the infrastructure of our status quo breaks down.
Well it's not surprising to me after reading this article by Chris Hedges the other day:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_careerists_20120723//
Here's the part that really brought home to me the point you've made above:
In Claude Lanzmann’s monumental documentary film “Shoah,” on the Holocaust, he interviews Filip Müller, a Czech Jew who survived the liquidations in Auschwitz as a member of the “special detail.” Müller relates this story:
“One day in 1943 when I was already in Crematorium 5, a train from Bialystok arrived. A prisoner on the ‘special detail’ saw a woman in the ‘undressing room’ who was the wife of a friend of his. He came right out and told her: ‘You are going to be exterminated. In three hours you’ll be ashes.’ The woman believed him because she knew him. She ran all over and warned to the other women. ‘We’re going to be killed. We’re going to be gassed.’ Mothers carrying their children on their shoulders didn’t want to hear that. They decided the woman was crazy. They chased her away. So she went to the men. To no avail. Not that they didn’t believe her. They’d heard rumors in the Bialystok ghetto, or in Grodno, and elsewhere. But who wanted to hear that? When she saw that no one would listen, she scratched her whole face. Out of despair. In shock. And she started to scream.”
I see it a lot when sharing links on Facebook. Most of the 'likes' when it comes to certain topics come from forum friends. I know, for example that certain people I know who are not involved here do see my posts because they click like on anything 'nice' or 'sentimental' but anything to do with climate change or comets? No chance. I guess all we can do is make the info available. Who knows, maybe some day in the not too distant future, people will remember what we share and may turn to us for help and advice? Don't give up!
Yes, I do agree with you Don Genaro, the same here with my FB account. The same I also can see with some of my family members or close persons. They do not want to hear, see or touch anything which could make crash their faiths and believes in their own life. It has something a little disturbing, but I am learning how it is difficult to me, how it affects me to see around nobody except my husband who is able to understand those points. So, as you, I continue to share wishing one day they will be able to hear or see. In the meantime, I decided to not let me crashed by this anymore. I am too emotional and have to work hard on it so I guess this kind of discussion with some people who do not want to ear or see could be more negative to me than expected.