This is a big yes from me - 'Martin Luther King and Gandhi sought a more honest, more respectful, more fair world. They wanted to expand, not limit, freedom. And they were right, of course. And they did change the world, in ways we’re still enjoying.'
Thanks for being a person who shares full-on vulnerability. The stories like this that we all share really and truly help others who might be feeling lonely or that there is no way forward. And the fact that you are on the other side and still working through layers of self is also very important. I think often people think that there's an end point to self development but once you fall in love with it and the life that unfolds, you happily accept that it's life long.
100%! Thank you for sharing your experience and wisdom. Nature and nurture do affect us, but we also have free will and we have responsibility for our actions. Mistakes are inevitable, because we're human, and ultimately, they teach us to grow.
Forgive me. It's been a slow day and I've nothing better to do than contankerously quibble with people I don't know on the internet about gender. Most of us do not "identify with a gender." Most of us come to know our gender the old-fashioned way -- by looking down and taking note of our anatomy. Yes, there are and always will be a few transexual exceptions but they need not steer the gender ship for the rest of society. My quibble aside, thanks for a beautifully written and beautifully humble piece.
I think you're right about the authority part. Unfortunately, the postmodernists have done incredible damage to our ability to trust generally benevolent authorities. Including our own parents, as you were dwelling upon here: the whole "everything's about power" narrative is so sinister it allows us to think of our own parents not as parents but as tyrannical powermongers, even when they aren't bad parents and are loving and providing. (I know I had those moments too before I knew better) "Everything's about power" isn't the universal truth of "gotcha" moments or civil wars in Westeros: it's a postmodern projection from a pervert named Foucault onto ordinary people who only want to live their lives. A unidimensional projection cherished by Woke people and sociopaths who want to justify their own bad intentions with the "two wrongs make a right" fallacy. And one that is proven wrong every time somebody somewhere in the world does a good deed, usually a generous one.
There are, of course, as you said, many other factors to this. But postmodernists have a lot to answer for in the damage they have done to society via their low common denominator ideas.
"A woman is raped in her apartment and she blames the man she invited inside." Fucking hell. "A man is robbed in his house and blames the friend he invited in." Damn right!! Entering a home isn't an invitation to rape. Disgusting attitude towards a woman's sovereignty over her body.
This is a big yes from me - 'Martin Luther King and Gandhi sought a more honest, more respectful, more fair world. They wanted to expand, not limit, freedom. And they were right, of course. And they did change the world, in ways we’re still enjoying.'
Thanks for being a person who shares full-on vulnerability. The stories like this that we all share really and truly help others who might be feeling lonely or that there is no way forward. And the fact that you are on the other side and still working through layers of self is also very important. I think often people think that there's an end point to self development but once you fall in love with it and the life that unfolds, you happily accept that it's life long.
100%! Thank you for sharing your experience and wisdom. Nature and nurture do affect us, but we also have free will and we have responsibility for our actions. Mistakes are inevitable, because we're human, and ultimately, they teach us to grow.
Forgive me. It's been a slow day and I've nothing better to do than contankerously quibble with people I don't know on the internet about gender. Most of us do not "identify with a gender." Most of us come to know our gender the old-fashioned way -- by looking down and taking note of our anatomy. Yes, there are and always will be a few transexual exceptions but they need not steer the gender ship for the rest of society. My quibble aside, thanks for a beautifully written and beautifully humble piece.
epic adventure. 👌
I think you're right about the authority part. Unfortunately, the postmodernists have done incredible damage to our ability to trust generally benevolent authorities. Including our own parents, as you were dwelling upon here: the whole "everything's about power" narrative is so sinister it allows us to think of our own parents not as parents but as tyrannical powermongers, even when they aren't bad parents and are loving and providing. (I know I had those moments too before I knew better) "Everything's about power" isn't the universal truth of "gotcha" moments or civil wars in Westeros: it's a postmodern projection from a pervert named Foucault onto ordinary people who only want to live their lives. A unidimensional projection cherished by Woke people and sociopaths who want to justify their own bad intentions with the "two wrongs make a right" fallacy. And one that is proven wrong every time somebody somewhere in the world does a good deed, usually a generous one.
There are, of course, as you said, many other factors to this. But postmodernists have a lot to answer for in the damage they have done to society via their low common denominator ideas.
"A woman is raped in her apartment and she blames the man she invited inside." Fucking hell. "A man is robbed in his house and blames the friend he invited in." Damn right!! Entering a home isn't an invitation to rape. Disgusting attitude towards a woman's sovereignty over her body.