Listen to Bold Humility Wins (v.1-reggae song): how might we use songs to cast doubts and create cognitive dissonance about MAGA's blind unconditional loyalty?
How might we use songs and poems to illuminate the long shadows of alt-right roaring rage?
Plato's quotes about politics
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
These quotes call for developing transformational learning processes to redress our meta-crisis of systemic power abuses that sets up our poly-crisis: our complex entanglement of self-inflicted wicked problems.
Click on the bolded links. Listen to the song. Which reggae version do you prefer?
This song will have no impact on hard-core MAGA loyalists, but some fringe members may have doubts about absolute loyalty. The song is directed toward encouraging swing, independent and undecided voters to cast their ballots: by mail or in-person.
How might we use songs and poems for transformational learning?
Set the stage to co-create generative dialogues. Invite listeners and readers to use sacred silence to reflect about this song and poem in advance. Divide people into triads (on Zoom or in person) to discuss these questions.
Session 1
What did the song evoke within you (1 minutes each)?
What were your reactions to what your partners said (7 minutes)?
Or simply play the song and read the pow
Session 2
What did the poem evoke within you (2 minutes each)?
What were your reactions to what your partners said (9 minutes)?
Repeat in triad session with different people to co-create generative dialogues and ongoing transformational learning communities about this question.
How might we generate the network power to:
Cultivate equity meta-governance needed to redress our meta-crisis of systemic power abuse dynamics that sets up our poly-crisis of wicked problems?
Design process learning innovations to cultivate inquiry, curiosity, imagination and creativity skills in using content to solve our complex entanglements of self-inflicted wicked problems?
Lyrics by author
Suno-generated voice and music
Chorus
Roaring rage, alt-right’s rallying call,
Roaring rage, activating lizard brains,
Roaring rage, rigidifying tribal minds
Roaring rage, making mob nightmares ruin our day.
Verse 1
Alt-right certainty, never doubts,
In echo chambers, blind loyalty shouts out,
Self-righteous might blinds true light,
Ignoring Don the Con’s, wrong-doings, in plain sight.
Chorus
Verse 2
Con fab Don, our pathological liar,
Twisted unhinged mind, menacing grimaces,
Inflames fear-hate-rage, mesmerizing,
Induce cult trance, mass psychosis, the Big Lie
Bridge
Certainty kills doubt, curiosity,
Certainty kills open minds
Bold humility breaks up mob rule,
Bold humility sets us free, from tyranny
Verse 3
Let the light of humility erase rage’s shadow,
Questioning certainty, opening our minds.
Embracing doubts, curiosity sailing in our winds,
Planting seeds of hope in our new gardens
Chorus
Outro
Humility's light breaks tyranny’s might,
Moral imaginations flow, shining bright,
Beyond roaring rage, a bright future arises,
Let virtues, doing good, be our guiding lights.
The poem below inspired the song lyrics above.
Bold Humility Rising
Listen to and then read the poem.
Alt-right certainty marches for Don the Con,
I’m right, you’re wrong, I’m good, you’re evil,
I’m human, your venom, I live, you die.
Opinions, alt-facts, I’m truth, you’re fake news.
O, the certainty of the reptilian brain,
Locked down in closed echo chambers,
Blind unconditional loyalty shouts out, never doubt,
Self-righteousness blinds the light of truth.
ConFabDon, our pathological liar,
Twisted unhinged mind, menacing grimaces,
Inflames fear-hate-rage, mesmerizing,
Induce cult trance, mass psychosis, the Big Lie,
Roaring rage, alt-right’s rallying anthem,
Roaring rage, might is right,
Roaring rage annihilates, no regrets,
Roaring rage rules the mob, rigs crooked games.
Roaring rage activates lizard brains,
Rigidifies tribal minds,
Unites virtuous victim victors,
Makes mob nightmares ruin our day.
Certainty kills curiosity, exploration, discovery,
Kills ethical discernment seeking truth
Kills moral, cultural, and compassionate humility,
Kills the dynamic emergence of generative dialogues.
Bold humility arises from inquiry,
Questioning certainty, opening minds,
Embraces the unknown, let curiosity reign in,
Plants seeds of possibilities, ideas, innovations.
Bold humility cures absolute certainty
Bold humility cures rigid beliefs, convictions,
Bold humility cures tyrannies’ power abuses,
Bold humility cures terrorism, barbarian wars.
Bold humility's light break tyrant’s might
Emancipating ethical literacy, liberating moral imaginations,
Aligning our virtues, galvanizing moral actions,
Co-creating our shining future bright.
