On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 09:57 Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is important! > > — > > A tribe of animal hunters is having a big celebration. > > Members of other tribes hear the festivities, and come to join. > > Member of tribe 2: “This is great! What are you guys celebrating?” > > Member of tribe 1: “Welcome to our celebration! We’re celebrating having > killed 100 animals this season! It’s awesome!” > > Tribe 2 has counted the animals in the area. There were only 100. > > — > > Member of tribe 3: “It’s great you guys have food for the winter, but we > need animals to hunt too, and there aren’t many left.” > > Member of tribe 1: “Um!” > > Member of tribe 4: “Honestly, we need you to bring all your important > people together into a formal meeting with the other tribes, so we can > discuss this incredibly important matter.” > > Member of tribe 1: “Oh!” > > Member of tribe 5: “Or we will wage war on you otherwise! Please help this > come to a peaceful solution!” > > Member of tribe 1: “Definitely! Goodness! I’ll bring this up with other > people and introduce you to others too to make sure this happens!” > > Member of tribe 6: “But we don’t want to hamper your festivities! > Celebration is important!” > > Member of tribe 1: “Thank you!” > > Member of tribe 7: “But we can’t drop this either!” > > — > > After the festivities, a formal meeting is held among all the tribes to > discuss hunting in the area … > > [ > in our meeting we found that tribe 1 had been possibly exposed to > influences of corruption, partly snake oil business people, also other > things influencing their governance and possibly even how they performed > their religious teachings. > > the issue was the corrupt influences were not interested in forthrightly > participating in the meeting, because they were profiting so much from the > situation. > > instead the other tribes decided to spend a lot of time thoroughly getting > to know the people of tribe 1 to prepare to act on the problem of > corruption safely and properly. > > we’re thinking it’s likely important to keep that hidden from the corrupt > people. learning how to do that might be a priority. (forming real > alliances with corrupt people might be awesome!) > > possible big mistakes. > ] > possible summary: we need to have a formal meeting with you but if there are influences of coercion making these problems, we don’t want them at the meeting _unless_ they will not harm it or any attendees
