mark chaffee

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Working on a world that trashes most anything so predominantly males can chase 'more-than'...more status, wealth and power...no matter what the social cost. Preparing a 4-book set focused on why we fail to build the world we claim that we value.

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mark chaffee@mvchaffee· Mar 13

Our world is suffering…profoundly. Important to march…but then what? Changing a face, doesn’t change a system of harm. 'WE' are THE social problem...and its ONLY solution. WE need to learn our way into a future WE must build ‘for all’…having never understood ourselves… ‘enough’. werdreams.org

Image: Data from two No Kings marches — June and October 2025 — showing attendance and percentage of US population. A newborn baby floats above a protest crowd. Text asks whether we are ready to do the work needed beyond wailing our discomfort — which is all we could do when born.
Research across the history of mass movements found that when 3.5% of a population actively resists authoritarians, the effort has never failed to force them out. ‘No Kings’ marches are approaching that number. Millions of people in the streets. Real. Significant.
But consider this:
MAGA is simply the latest ‘branding’ of a significant subset of the States. In 2020, 81 million Americans voted against MAGA’s ‘savior’…forced him out of office. That's 34% of eligible voters — nearly ten times the 3.5% threshold — using our system's own mechanism, its most legitimate channel, in a historic turnout not seen in over a century.
And 4 years later... their ‘savior’s face’ returned…more broken and more of a threat than before.
That ‘face’ promising harm was chosen again…because ‘our’ system that created that subset who selects such deeply broken males…was never touched. For some ten thousand years, since agricultural surplus first made it possible to accumulate 'more-than' at imposed collective costs, the positions of power have been filled by people shaped by the same pathological drive. We change who holds the position. The position remains what it was built to be. Oversight…managing and protecting differential benefit.
Resistance can remove a face. It alone cannot dismantle the machinery that keeps producing those male faces.
What can? People learning — together, face-to-face, in small groups, woven together — how we actually evolved to work as a social species. What we were built to do…before ten thousand years of 'more-than'… reshaped everything around extraction.
'WE' are THE social problem. Not any ‘them’.
That's also why 'WE' are the only solution.
A Course In 'Us' — werdreams.org

mark chaffee@mvchaffee· Oct 24

Elites lead us to harm, harm us, and deceive us in their ‘wanting to help us’ address our suffering...that they imposed. We don’t believe lies, as much as know...truth from them is very rare. Our brains evolved through surviving and thriving, together. Abuse diminishes us. www.werdreams.org

Photomontage of tour-group at the UN beside a long ditch of blue body bags, symbolizing preventable deaths and the cost of elite deception.

mark chaffee@mvchaffee· Oct 24

Tired of waiting for someone to ‘lead us out’ of this? Only ‘we’ can learn our way out of the mess we’ve hoped… prayed… waited… for relief from. The road out… is ‘us’. But we need better tools. A Course In ‘Us’ — “We Are THE Social Problem… And The ONLY Solution.” www.werdreams.org

Illustration of a long ditch filled with blue body bags labeled with daily global death counts

mark chaffee@mvchaffee· Apr 18

Working hard to 'polish edit' the book-set. Been silent with intense work on books. Dems aren't the only folks needing deep insights into failures. Activists have needed such insight into failure for a long, long time. Like...since inequality arose...5-8 millennia ago.

mark chaffee@mvchaffee· Mar 22

Male-elites engage slaughter...because some 'we' enable it. No such male steps outside 'his' border for theft, without his 'gang' behind him...howling for 'more'. "I object to violence, because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent." Gandhi

mark chaffee@mvchaffee· Mar 21

How many times will we let them break their promises? They said "Never Again!" They meant "Never Again…to Us!" The columns should be longer—much longer— but we’re not supposed to see their level of carnage/slaughter. We’re not supposed to ask "why does this keep happening?" Walk with me. Let’s ask.

mark chaffee@mvchaffee· Mar 6

No society has ever educated 'us' at the level of our dysfunctions...or the level of our possibility. They won't...because we would no longer enable toxic inequality. 'We', 8.3B of us...have no experience, no idea just how to actually live...together, though evolved to. Ready to understand 'us'?

mark chaffee@mvchaffee· Mar 1

When Power abuses the world around us...we don't have to wait for abusers to stop. Rather...we have to stop waiting...and push back in every direction that we can, however we can...together...to help the abused feel that their value and dignity is not denied by all.

mark chaffee@mvchaffee· Feb 28

Isn't 'the Internet' demanding that we rethink protest...governance...'public'...and how much damage we allow elites to do to 'us'...hoping that someone else...'fixes this mess'? Doesn't the web allow the world to say 'NO MORE!' - directly to elites? When governments fail 'us'...to the streets!

mark chaffee@mvchaffee· Feb 26

No where, are 'we' educating ourselves at the level that any effective democracy's demand for 'informed consent' is being met. Sociopaths arise in 'our' ignorance, not our knowledge...of our relationships...to one another...to 'all'. Isn't it time to do this very differently? We can. We must.

mark chaffee@mvchaffee· Feb 20

No 'should' exists that make broken 'children'...behave...no matter how old they are. No law exists that make people agree that they don't get to take what is not theirs. Power's abuse recognizes nothing but 'more-than'...at any cost...to 'others'. Tired of waiting to be saved? No one's coming.

mark chaffee@mvchaffee· Feb 14

Sociopaths make evident a simplicity in them that is largely about 'broken-children'...seeking to be valued by at least someone, including themselves. From sociopath, to sycophants, to 'charmed' and zealots...all seek filling that hole of 'valued'...dug with our herds as children...not yet filled...

mark chaffee@mvchaffee· Feb 13

Elections have consequences. 'None-Of-The-Above' dominate every election...ignored by 'politics-as-usual'...always. Why do we ignore what the majority are telling us? Sociopaths aren't elected...but imposed...as 'lesser-evil' fails to impact inequality...enough...to impress us they care...enough.

mark chaffee@mvchaffee· Feb 11

No generation educates itself to the level of its dysfunctions, or those 'handed' to it. Imprinted as infant, feeling 'discomfort', waiting for 'someone else' to answer to 'my' cries...i.e., those 'someones' who benefit from dysfunctions. Only 'we' can fix 'it'...which is actually...just...'us'.

mark chaffee@mvchaffee· Feb 11

Developing 'the division of labor' allowed us to delude 'us' into believing...'someone else'...will 'fix' this. If it isn't 'my' child...home...community...livelihood being destroyed...someone else will 'fix' the mess encompassing 'us'...sometime...some day...hopefully. Let's...pray?

mark chaffee@mvchaffee· Feb 9

There is no means by which to get to a different future...if first...we don't teach ourselves how to get there. It has nothing to do with what politics, religion, degrees or 'gold' have offered us...ever.

mark chaffee@mvchaffee· Feb 7

We don't teach ourselves how to resist...but follow. We don't teach ourselves to lay down weapons...but pick them up. Sociopaths love...docile citizens...wringing their hands, thinking someone else will 'fix this'. A nation of laws until not. Ready to learn how to do this different?

mark chaffee@mvchaffee· Feb 6

Sociopaths need people more oriented by a herd-beliefs, than oriented by curiosity driven by our senses...people more oriented around herd-imitation, than driven to understand. And activists seem stuck on 'shoulds' rather than questioning habitual ineffectiveness preventing achieving...'for all'.

mark chaffee@mvchaffee· Feb 5

Left activism years ago...frustrated with our tinkering in the face of the carnage males are willing to wreak...chasing after 'more-than'. Left to study why such failure...across millennia...when those who suffer so outnumber...elites who so abuse our herds. Ready to share new tools...'for all'.