“Nothing frustrates me more than seeing powerful people who think they are weak bending the knee to weak people who think they are powerful.” – My Damn Self
Dear Reader,
If you are here, I am going to take the liberty to make a few assumptions about you:
- You have not given up on fully realizing the contribution you can be to the world
- You have values that include the belief that there are room and resources enough for every human being to thrive
- You are creative and appreciate the creativity in others
- You are not afraid of new ideas and have a reasonably healthy relationship with the Unknown.
If none of these sound like you and you are trying to figure out if this creative space is right for you, then please read the post below before going forward. Everyone else, please skip ahead.
Dear Person Who I Am Not Talking To
A Request to SHARE
If you are reading this, then I am just going to come out and ask you to restack (on Substack) or share everything I post that you get value out of. If you can’t get yourself to do it for some reason, then I accept it. But, I am going to straight out ask for the reasons that I talk about in the video below and will expound on in the rest of this article.
Positively Flooding the Zone (A “Homeopathic” Approach)
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – Buckminster Fuller
If you’re not familiar with the term “flooding the zone,” you’re likely living it right now. It’s a political strategy where a group deliberately overwhelms the public sphere with an abundance of information, narratives, or content to dominate attention and influence perception. Most of the time, it’s used to distract, misdirect, or saturate a topic so thoroughly that opposing voices or narratives are drowned out. It can include a mix of truthful information and misinformation, but the ultimate goal is to keep us stuck in a state of inaction i.e. stuck in our ego. And as I’ve said before, the ego’s primary decision is not to make a decision. Sound familiar?
When we feel overwhelmed by this flood of conflicting information, the temptation is often to either give up entirely or to fight fire with fire. But I’d like to propose something different—what I’m calling a homeopathic approach. This involves diluting the toxicity of what we’re experiencing by introducing an even greater abundance of positive, thoughtful, and impactful messaging. The idea isn’t to combat negativity directly, but to overwhelm it with intentional doses of inspiration, truth, and beauty, gradually shifting the public discourse toward something healthier and more constructive.
If homeopathy is new to you, it’s a practice in alternative medicine that includes diluting a toxic substance with water until its properties are transformed into something beneficial. This process is called potentiation, meaning “to endow with power.” While I’m not endorsing homeopathy as a physical remedy—though I’ve used it and heard good things—the concept of dilution as a strategy resonates deeply with me in this context. Imagine, for example, that a pet poops on your floor. Would it make more sense to try to clean it by adding more poop—or by flooding the area with water until the mess is entirely diluted and untraceable?
Using this logic, flooding the public sphere with positive and unifying messages feels like a much more effective strategy than meeting toxicity with more toxicity. It’s a shift from reacting defensively to responding intentionally, offering something transformative rather than perpetuating the same cycles of outrage and misinformation. As most of us already know, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly while expecting different results—yet that’s what we often do when faced with information overload.
If you’ve read my post, What Artists Reveal (WAR), you’ll understand why I believe artists and creatives hold the key to countering the negative effects of “flooding the zone.” They have a unique ability to dilute the toxicity by producing and sharing positive, intentional content that uplifts, unites, and provokes meaningful thought. By focusing on creativity, beauty, and truth, rather than defensiveness or negativity, artists can change the narrative and help us collectively focus on what truly matters. It’s a simple yet profound way to neutralize the noise and reconnect us to our shared humanity.
Note: I am using some of the theory behind homeopathy for illustrative purposes only. If you want to learn more about actual homeopathy, I encourage you to look it up or find a homeopath. I am simply focusing on the positive attributes of dilution.
Where You Come In
Artists Turn Chaos Into Culture! That’s what we do and this time is giving us plenty to work with. So if you know you are an artist, do your job and create like crazy. I hired myself to write the things I need to hear. Living off my savings as long as I can so I can put out what I think needs to be spoken into the atmosphere. If the artist in you had been squashed by too many status quo warriors, choose a medium even if it is a freaking coloring book and start bringing ways of flourishing into the world that wouldn’t exist if you weren’t here.
Personally, I consider everyone an artist or creator. But, if you aren’t there yet, then the next best thing you can do is to help with the dilution by sharing everything that you get something out of. At a minimum, don’t let the fear of some person in your life that you are afraid of offending keep you from being a part of the SOLUTION! Did you get that? What is primary ingredient in a cleaning solution? Water! Back to the dog poop analogy. Creating a solution or being a part of it always includes inundation. And that is what I am encouraging you to do with my content or any content that you think is going to invite in the possibilities you want to see in the world.
By sharing thought-provoking and truthful content, you help reorient public focus toward the bigger picture, promoting critical thinking and self-awareness. In a way, you are serving as a cultural guide, helping people see past the immediate flood of information to connect with deeper values. Just as “flooding the zone” inundates people with repetitive, divisive narratives, you can repeatedly introduce positive, meaningful content into the discourse. Over time, this repetition can act as a counterbalance, making the positive narratives more visible and relatable.
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I Promise You That We Are More Powerful Than We Know
As I said in the video, it is time for us to drop the idea of “speaking the truth to power” and start “speaking the truth about power” because none of these people that we are giving our power to are powerful. They are weak people who know that we don’t know how powerful we are. So, they suck the power out of us. My purpose is to help us see what true power is. To get a sense of it, I am going to take the liberty of replacing the word love for power from 1 Corinthians 13 so that it reads:
[Power] is patient; [Power] is kind; [Power] is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth.It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. [Power] never fails.
Does this sound like what we’re seeing from the people in our society, who we say have power, and who profess to follow the tradition that says God is Love and the power that causes all that is? Absolutely not! And there is no excuse for us to keep pretending otherwise. At least not anymore, because we have the ability to learn for ourselves the deeper histories that in past we didn’t have access to—the stories that reveal how we have been played for millennia.
When the Power of Love Overcomes the Love of Power
I am going to do everything I can to communicate to you how powerful you are. We all are waiting for you to wake up to this reality. Even as I type this, I am reminded of the opening quote to Marianne Williamson’s poem that was often misattributed to Nelson Mandela that begins with:
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other
people won’t feel insecure around you.
Say what you want to say about Marianne Williamson, she was 100% in truth when she wrote this. And if more people took this to heart, I don’t know where we would be as a society. As someone who initially share this with many people decades ago believing that Nelson Mandela wrote this, I will be honest and say that when I realized that it was someone, who at the time I knew nothing about, I actually hesitated in continuing to share it. But the truth of it compelled me to share it and even correct people when I heard the misattribution.
And not only did I share it, when my oldest daughter started a new school where she didn’t know anyone and started showing signs of diminishing her light, I actually had her memorize the whole poem and recite it to me every morning on the drive to school. Now, how do you think that messaging impacted my daughter? Well, that is what I desire for you and every human being. And that is why I am living off of my savings and writing like crazy while looking for roles that are looking for someone who is going to show 100% as me or not at all.
I don’t blame anyone for the societies that we have created where so many people are not encouraged live into their fullness, because I know how much we are lied to every single day of our lives. But, I do hold everyone responsible for not doing whatever little thing they can to add a little bit of beauty and creativity and wonder to this world, because I know that we have each inherited a creative nature. As I said in the video, even if you take some crayons and color, you can do something. And if you can’t do that for some reason, then if you made it this far, just restack this post. Because, at a minimum, by restacking, it is like casting a vote for a world where everyone can thrive, because with every clickety clack of this keyboard, that is the fullness of the energy that I am putting out. And I know if you are reading this, you are receiving everything I am giving. Because I am only giving 100%.
Written with love for all that you are and all that you are becoming for yourself and for all of us who are connected to you,
Pedro Senhorinha Silva II
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