January 15, 2022 by Brian Weiner No CommentsChanging The World One Thought At A Time., Lessons From The Mountain

I am not a liberal snowflake. My feelings aren’t fragile. My heart isn’t bleeding. I am a badass believer in human rights. My toughness is in tenderness. My strength is in the service of others. There is nothing more fierce, more formidable, than unconditional love. There is not a thing more courageous than compassion. But if my belief in equity, empathy, goodness, and love indeed makes me or people like me snowflakes, then you should know, Winter is coming.

I loved this the moment I read it. I have watched opposing forces characterize me and people like me as weak, spineless, fragile, and a host of other epithets that are not worth reciting. They think that qualities and values that people like me demonstrate and hold as important are not worthy of appreciating, and scorn many of those values by their choice to name call and label them.

Interestingly, their choice to name call and devalue what we hold dear has galvanized a lot of us to rise up and defend morality in a host of interesting means and methods. When the people who opted to play this game were far smaller in public view, people like me would watch them as a series of compartmentalized factions, all ready to strike out from their respective corners and not really anticipate them as being an extremely large problem to our country at large.

But something happened over the last 6 years and as a consequence, the continued insults to our morality, values and most importantly, our intelligence has caused many more of us to galvanize and connect in new and important means. Open discussions, social posts, YouTube videos, television, news media and film have shown a direct spotlight onto the circumstances surrounding these onslaughts and prepared a lot of us to forge alliances and take a stand on something that had been considerably more passive in days past.

I am proud to champion values that include tenderness, compassion, empathy and love. It is in my DNA, it is the core value set that my parents instilled in me.

The reigning difference is that they have gone out of their way to try to shame us into seeing our strengths as weaknesses. A massive gaslighting to attempt to cause those of us who care into converting into the mindless zombies that their audiences consist of. Surprisingly, the opposite seems to be happening. They called me a Liberal and attached (their) shame to the word. Then they tried to add other huge, all-encompassing words like Socialist, Communist, Libtard, Snowflake, Bleeding Heart and countless other ignorant terms to the way that people like me think.

That is absurd. If you want to see how dangerous Socialism or Communism is, there are countless countries to observe and then read about their history in order that you see that these economic systems are devout failures from the outset. To label programs like rebuilding the infrastructure of the United States as a Socialist movement, only proves to me how incredibly ignorant they are. If a bridge (one of 45,000 in the USA) collapses, the bridge does not know if the people and vehicles traveling across it are of a particular party or persuasion. They will be injured or die, regardless. There is no political ideology in that. Our attempt to shore up our national infrastructure is required for our economy to remain strong. Attacking it with ignorant public shaming and name calling is just a pathetic attempt to distract from the truth.

If our nation is besieged by homeless people, then we need to find a way to help them, not sweep them away from our cities and ignore them. It is compassionate to do this. It requires empathy.

I won’t spell out all of the examples, you know it, you see it.

My point is this… they can name call all they want. Most of them are paid assassins who work for the elite 1% who do not wish to see their overall fortunes decrease in order that our world can remain habitable. These elite buy governments, politicians and other influential people in order that they may do their bidding. Then they use propaganda to attack intelligent people who see right through their lies and deceit. We represent the thorn in their paw. We are the ones who see their arrogance and ignorance for what it is and are willing to call it out. I am not here to join them in their insane and insatiable quest to dominate and conquer. I am here to stand up for humanity. To make a case for kindness, fairness, compassion and empathy.

So to come back to my aphorism above, if that makes people like me “snowflakes” then they are duly forewarned that Winter is coming.

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Written by Brian Weiner

When I was 5 years old, I discovered that the lemon tree in the backyard + dixie cups + water and sugar and I was in business. I have been hooked on that ever since. In 1979, I borrowed $14,000 to create a brand new product... photographic greeting cards with no text on the inside, called Paradise Photography. That was the start of The Illusion Factory. Since then, The Illusion Factory has been entrusted by all of the major studios and broadcasters with the advertising and marketing of over $7 billion in filmed, live, broadcast, gaming, AR, VR and regulated gaming forms of entertainment, generating more than $100 Billion in revenue and 265 awards for creativity and technology for our clients. When I took a break from film school at UCLA to move to Hawaii, my mother did not lecture me. Instead, she took 150 of her favorite aphorisms and in her beautiful calligraphy, wrote them artistically throughout a blank journal. That is the origin of the Lessons from the Mountain series. Since then, on my journeys to the top of a mountain to watch the sunrise, I have spent countless hours contemplating words of wisdom from the sages of all races, genders and political persuasions, constantly accumulating the thoughts to guide me on my life path. I hope you enjoy my books. Please let me know your thoughts, as I highly value your feedback!