From: Quanta Dawn-Light
<quant...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2025 9:02 AM
To: Chuck Woolery <chuck@igc.org> Subject: Fwd: Truth is...
A wise and courageous women sent this to me this AM and gave me permission to post it. I'm guessing many of us have thought it but were afraid of saying it. Brad Blanton once write a book titled "Radical Honesty". I don't believe Quanta Dawn-Light read it...her words are just a self-evident truth...that needs to be shared and taken into account in our daily lives and conversations...if we are serious about making change. If you would like to respond to her email it to project250@earthlink.net and I'll get it to her.
Truth Is a Threat to the Tyranny of
Toxic Positivity: Women Must Rise Like Joan of Arc for Truth and Peace!
In a world saturated with
curated images of harmony, hashtags of hope, and a deluge of motivational
messages, peace polls, peace parks, peace webinars, peace this and
peace that -a deeper, uncomfortable truth is often silenced: we are
witnessing global systems fail the most vulnerable. Innocent children are
starving. Women are being brutalized in wars fueled by greed and geopolitical
games. Yet many peace organizations bask in the glow of public relations
campaigns and sanitized narratives that hide their complicity or impotence.
This is the tyranny of toxic positivity—a culture that avoids confronting the
roots of violence, injustice, and hypocrisy in favor of feel-good illusions.
And in such times, truth-telling becomes a revolutionary act. Today, women must
rise like Joan of Arc—not as passive peacekeepers, but as bold, unyielding
warriors for truth and justice.
The Mask of Toxic Positivity
Toxic positivity is not merely
about optimistic thinking; it is a distortion of emotional intelligence that
weaponizes cheerfulness against truth. It pressures individuals and
institutions to smile through suffering, to “stay positive” even as atrocities
unfold in plain sight. It suppresses grief, outrage, and righteous anger—all of
which are natural and necessary responses to injustice. As a mother I am
empowered with the life giving force who carried a child in my womb, I can
sense the cry of Mother Earth as she carries eight billion of her children in
her womb, to be born again to journey in the Universe in places beyond limited
human comprehension. So, what is it that we can do to shake up the conscience
of male homosapiens who savagely and with stupidity terrorize his earthly
siblings with monstrous weapons and waste resources for destructive wars? Why
are we compliant and silent and fragmented in our struggle?
In the peacebuilding world,
this culture often manifests through language that avoids blame, shies away
from structural critique, and preaches neutrality in the face of brutality.
Organizations brand themselves as apolitical, unifying, and solution-oriented.
But what solutions can arise from willful blindness? What kind of peace is
built when the funding behind peace efforts comes from corporations or
governments involved in arms manufacturing, extractive industries, or human
rights violations?
This is the moral crisis of
modern peace activism: when organizations touting nonviolence are, knowingly or
not, entangled in systems of violence. They may host summits, publish white
papers, or receive awards—all while remaining silent about genocide, settler
colonialism, or imperial warfare. And they silence or sideline
voices—especially from the Global South, Indigenous communities, and women—who
dare to speak truths that disrupt their fundraising narratives. Not mentioning
that the top managers of many organizations for human services are making
exorbitant salaries, while poverty and hunger ravages humanity
Joan of Arc: A Feminine
Archetype of Truth and Resistance
History gives us icons to draw
strength from. Joan of Arc, the young peasant girl who defied kings and armies,
is one such figure. She was not a diplomat or a passive mediator; she was a
visionary who spoke truth to power, led with conviction, and inspired a nation.
Her weapon was not just a sword—it was her uncompromising voice. Let all women
take her example, today.
Today, women are called again
to this sacred fire. Not to mimic the violence of empire, but to lead with
moral clarity, courage, and the prophetic power of truth. Across the globe,
from mothers in Gaza and Sudan to grandmothers in Ukraine and Congo, women are
rising—not with platitudes, but with pleas for survival. These women are often
silenced or rendered invisible by peace institutions that prefer tidy stories
and controlled narratives. But true peace is not polite. It is not quiet. It is
not comfortable. Peace forged through silence and complicity is not peace—it is
managed injustice.
Follow the Money: Peace Funded
by Conflict
Many peace organizations rely
on funding from governments or corporate donors whose economic interests are
tied to war. A peace NGO may receive millions in sponsorships from entities
that profit off resource extraction in conflict zones or supply weapons to
warring parties. This is not just ironic—it is corrupt. It is a betrayal of the
very principles these organizations claim to uphold.
Accepting money without
questioning its source is not neutral—it is strategic blindness. When peace
institutions are sustained by the spoils of violence, their programs are
compromised. Their campaigns may call for de-escalation while avoiding any
discussion of arms embargoes. They may promote resilience and trauma healing
while avoiding accountability for the forces that caused the trauma. This is
not peace—it is performance and disguised as being non-political in
inter/national affairs.
To confront this contradiction,
we must demand transparency and ethical integrity. We must ask: who funds the
peace we are offered, and what are they buying in return? If an organization
cannot stand against genocide, cannot name the aggressor, or cannot center the
voices of the oppressed, it has lost its way.
The Children Are Waiting
At the heart of this
conversation are the innocent: the children who go to bed hungry because food
has been used as a weapon of war. The women who are raped, displaced, or left
to die because global leaders play power games with borders and resources. These
are not unfortunate byproducts—they are deliberate strategies in modern
warfare. And unless we are willing to name that, we cannot hope to change it.
Women must now rise—not just in
mourning, not just in advocacy—but in fierce, organized resistance. This does
not mean violence, but it does mean refusing to cooperate with lies. It means
confronting the soft fascism of positive thinking that asks us to smile while
we are bleeding. It means telling the truth, even when it costs us comfort,
status, or funding.
Conclusion: Truth as
Peace-Building
Truth is not the enemy of
peace—it is its foundation. False unity built on silence is brittle. Real peace
requires rupture, reckoning, and radical honesty. It requires leaders who are
not afraid to confront both enemies abroad and contradictions within. It calls
for humility, sacrifice, -detachment from what holds us on fragile foundations
of false optimism; a pacifier, silencer and fake happiness.
Let women be the new army—not
with guns, but with sacred sparks and flames for truth. Let them speak,
write, march, and disrupt. Let them name the systems of oppression and expose
the wolves in peacekeeper’s clothing. Let them stand for the children, the
land, and the future. And let the truth shatter the tyranny of toxic
positivity—so that something real, and sacred, can finally be born.
So, this is for
everyone who live with the principle of "service above self" and by 4
Way Test (for truth). I wrote a paragraph and asked AI to expand for an
essay, it wrote an emotionally evoking, mindfully
instructive heartfelt essay for truth.
https://www.growthinktank.org/en/women-war-and-peace-those-women-who-take-up-arms-for-peace/
Below will soon be an art piece she commissioned via ChatGPT.
“It takes a female to have a baby,
It takes a woman to raise a child,
It takes a mother to raise them correctly,
It takes a warrior to show them how to change the world.”
― Shannon L. Alder
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