Journal Entry 2
By: Dc Gary
Tags: Domestic Violence, Grow, Real, Journal, Reflections

I grew up with one foot in the real world, the other in bubble wrap, and both in the shadow cast by the most diverse and dynamic built environment in human history. Talking about one foot in a community center and one at a country club. Living the common struggle one day, and living the privileged endgame the next. Endgame? At least seemingly so that is. We humans always seem to want more. The person making $15K annually wants to make $25K. Person making $25K wants $50K who wants $100K who wants $1m who wants $10m who wants $100m who wants $1b who wants $10b who wants $100b who wants $1T. Or do they? Well, yes, they decidedly do. But an income limit somewhere in the above range is a hard fact of life for 100% of the population. Take the striving for survival out of a person’s impetus, and then make it clear to them that they have reached an income ceiling, and you will still have a person striving for something. From pond to stream to lake to river to harbor to ocean, water flows downhill. That natural fact is repeated in our individual and collective psychologies, most critically during the formation of desire. The flow of human development is imprinted with man made obstacles often rooted in generations previous to the contemporary moment. When considering key concepts and dichotomies it is clear that on a fundamental level, in 10,000 years of societal development, not much has really changed. Unfulfilled desires still lead to dissatisfaction. Perceiving to be on the threshold of a new era, and feeling something strong about oneself because of it, whether hopeful anticipation or existential trepidation or something in between, is an experience for 100% of the human beings who have ever lived on this planet. Which is actually pretty great. A true and timeless equal opportunity. That feeling you have when you stand on your personal precipice, or imagine the day that you will, is one of the greatest things about being alive. But what happens when this perception of impeding change is rendered amorphous and threatening by internal and external failures of reason? Believing that reversion is on the doorstep, that what is had today will be less tomorrow, decreases a person’s rationality. Imagine the satisfaction of feeling like what you have is enough for now and clearing a path toward your more as you perceive it.

What if to those around you neither is good enough? What if their own lack of satisfaction is decreasing their rationality? What if humanity could learn to understand the biological chemistry driving ploughs through their lived experience, and vice versa?

Confusing? Most topics are.

Not the least of which is Yellow Domestic Violence.

lovedwrong was formed in 2020 to research, understand, and mitigate the causes and effects of violence within a household. Violence can take the form of emotional, verbal, sexual, or physical abuse. It can be graphic and alarming or subtle and insidious. Causes of violence can be personal or structural and immediate or communal. Effects of violence can be devastating, debilitating, merely detrimental, displaced, and deferred.

lovedwrong is here to work toward ending Yellow Domestic Violence.