And the journey continues: the oppressed oppressor

Note: So it's been a while. It's been a busy period and i notice i've got a lot pent up that needs to be spoken to. A clearing of the mind is in order so that i can stop hanging out in my head so much and actually move productively!

All too often when i ponder the journey i am on i tend to find media/movie references that fit what it is i am getting at. I say it in so many words but a scene captures things so well! Case in point, my desire to work toward transcending/overcoming/ending oppression in its many faces. What i find myself facing time and again is my potential to become the oppressed oppressor--mistaking elevation for liberation, all the while doing unto others what i have been conditioned to believe is the norm and without thinking.

What comes to mind is the final duel between Luke and Darth Vader and the moment when Vader's artificial hand is cut off  forcing Luke to come to terms with their undeniable connection. When it happens to us, we might not see, or even deny the connection we have to our oppressor, to the system which we abide that is also implicated; a denial that allows for the perpetuation of the very oppression inflicted on us at the hands of our oppressor to be cast upon the oppressed. This is worse when it happens at the behest of those that would claim to be our liberators and even allies.

I came across this epic poem--"fake deep"--that speaks to this reality of the oppressed oppressor. It is a reminder not only that this is happening, and that i am not crazy after all, but that i need to maintain my hypersensitivity on the matter of my potential to become no different than that which i seek to disrupt and upend.

 Working towards the potential to spiritual growth and wellbeing in others, and in spaces of the institutional and social variety is a challenge when it comes to disrupting mindsets that condone perpetuation of the status-quo because it usually gets interpreted more as negativity than an opportunity to consider a less oppressive standpoint. So perhaps the question is how to go about such "consciousness raising" without being silenced the moment one's status-quo comes under scrutiny. How can change be encouraged without the act becoming just another mode of oppression?