Daryl Davis, Youngest Cultural Physician

For some modern humans, a turn around may yet be possible

For a note of sanity among a cacophony of insanity, there is Daryl Davis, a compassionate revolutionary.

His Wikipedia page offers many clues as to how he survived the ordeal of being brought up in modern techno-industrial society, unlike almost everyone else. Other ten-year-olds may be sane, but he managed to retain some grasp of reality and not be subsumed into one ideology or another.

Daryl’s father, a retired senior Foreign Service officer, believed that his son engaged with the Klan because he needed to make sense of their hatred, to seek common ground, that his son “has done something that I don’t know any other black American, or white American, has done.” Father may know son best. Not being a follower makes it much more likely to not be misled.

As Daryl says, he didn’t convert anyone. Faced with reality, the what-is in front of their face, they converted themselves. This is what works. Daryl is not a scientist, but what he does is citizen science. “What I have come to find to be the greatest and most effective and successful weapon that we can use, known to man, to combat such adversaries as ignorance, racism, hatred, violence, [error and illusion] is also the least expensive weapon, and the one that is the least used by Americans. That weapon is called communication.” Nobel Peace Prize time anyone?

Davis is a Socrates: self-educated without being overschooled. Doubt, inquiry, and exposure to what’s out there beyond the prattleverse we now live in seems to have come to him as the day the night (thou canst not then be false to any man, even if they like to wear hoods).

No guns or bombs required. No ‘us’ vs ‘them’ imagined solutions.

His assumption is that no two people are different in kind, and I’m guessing he would agree, considering the evidence, that humans are not different from any other animal/plant/protist/fungi/prokaryote or virus — in kind.

Whether prions or viruses are ‘life’ or ‘living’ beings, or White people are human, we can communicate about that and maybe agree we don’t know enough to have an opinion. We hubris hu-mans (hubris man swarm) are not functional humans as our pre-empire building ancestors would likely agree if they could view how we hu-mans of NIMH live, especially in overdensity urbanscapes, for a time.

Daryl, as benefactor of humankind, offers a video for consideration.

[embed]I will soon post this with a transcript.

No human capable of joining a mass movement can see the above as applying to themselves or their tribal others. See Eric Hoffer’s book ‘The True Believer’ (or history) who speculated that a mass movement maybe could do more good than harm, but couldn’t convincingly name one that had.

I once had concerns about the emerging regressive left’s ideology turning into another Cultural Revolution, but the term has now been embraced by the right-winged as a pejorative term for all liberals who by their reckoning are all [regressive leftists](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regressive_left#:~:text=Regressive%20left%20(also%20formulated%20as,liberal%20principles%2C%20especially%20tolerating%20Islamism.). So forget any repetitive use of words in Newspeak as they change from mouth to mouth and from month to month. Reality is more about seeing/listening than thinking/opining or chant and cant.

Eric Lee aka H.narrator