They raise and educate and "inform" us-- and they engineer experiences for us to have-- in ways designed to make us believe that not pleasing society's higher-ups is being intellectually or emotionally incapable of surviving. In actual fact, it's the opposite. Refusal to obey them blindly-- AKA knowing one's inherent, inevitable inability to be perfect or be who the higher-ups want us to be anyway-- is an ability, not a lacking or disability or evil or crime or misstep or poor choice or bad decision or misdemeanor, and shouldn't be a mark of shame.
Human-to-cockroach conversations. Next time I'm in one of those (I wouldn't ever speak to anyone as though I'm human and them lesser than me, but others have done so to me)... I plan to say to the professed "only human" in the conversation, "This conversation is either going to be-- preferable-- human to human, or-- barring that-- cockroach to cockroach. But it isn't going to be human to cockroach."
The idea that we're useless or selfish if we don't save the world single-handedly or play more than our part. This is not only degrading-- it's dangerous. It's not only demanding (at the end of the day, towards all involved)-- it's demeaning towards all involved. The reality is that there's more than one way to correctly skin a moose. Just because my lifestyle isn't saving the world doesn't mean that I'm doing less or am less or am less worthy of life if I just want to run off into the woods with my husband and us just live there loving on each other for the rest of our lives. Because once the world is saved, then what? What are we even saving if not love for freedom... freedom to love? Who is anyone hurting by living a nice loving life even if it's off the grid or not "educated" or "refined" or feeding into a bigger "better" manmade system? You "weren't raised like that," you say? Well, neither was I. Like you, I was raised to make third parties proud of me rather than live and love my life out. To "become someone important" rather than to know everyone is already important. If you think that I should or need to be impressed in any sort of positive way by your assertion that I'm selfish for wanting to live my life in peace with my loved ones instead of saving the world overtly and in everyone's face, otherwise I'm "not doing enough-- then know that I'm the opposite of impressed in any sort of positive way.
They see it as radical and controversial to be or want to be enough just by existing, to see it as enough to be human. That we must be EVIL to not want or aspire to be or become like God. That we're going to hell for not wanting to be God's right-hand whatever, above others. (The real God(s) doesn't work that way... "we're all equal in God's eyes" is the truth, NOT a buzzword to pacify idiots, like so many people think it is. And God(s) is/are a more-informed, more-connected peer of ours who lets us make our own choices by very virtue of the fact that God is informed like that. God isn't controlling in any forcible way. We can ask God to help us with our full free consent, though.) A lot of societies-- including atheist or spiritual-but-not-religious societies-- have a toxic idea that we should want to be like those they designate as our "superiors." And furthermore, at the end of the day, it's them wanting us to want to be like them. Maybe even to wish we were them.
And society's toxic "choices" they "give" us. The real choice is yes versus no, but the choices society gives us are some form or other of "Which yes do you want us to force on you?" Which death do you want, choose the least painful. Electric chair, firing squad, or lethal injections? How do you wish to serve your time for protesting our corruption-- a fine, community service cleaning toilets at our city hall working for our corrupt system, or a jail sentence? Which antipsychotic medication do you want?-- if you don't pick one then you will be taking Haldol."
And society's toxic idea that a third party forcibly ending a necessary, stressful debate between two other parties is for the good of those getting stressed while debating. At the top it's deliberate censorship... but many at the bottom are brainwashed by the higher-ups to believe that it's actually humane or necessary practice to censor "for the own good" of those speaking. Being shut down doesn't calm one down-- it turns their pain inward because they no longer have any way to express it. It's like lobotomizing people in the old days to "get rid of their pain" when really it didn't do that at all... it often removed their ability to outwardly express it in any way others outside could understand. (And a lot of the higher-ups knew that too.) Obeying out of fear or force is not calming down. It is the opposite... it causes torturous pain in the person forced or scared into obeying, and in case you don't care about that then maybe you will care that it inevitably comes back on you... often sooner than you think, and always regardless of what you do to try and prevent or stall it or soften the blow for yourself.
And society's sick idea that encourages and often tells us and often flat-our orders us to tust a TV show or magazine or website or any other source that tells us who to like and dislike, who to hate and who to shun and who to pick on or hate on and who to worship and trust blindly, and who to just ignore. What to believe someone did or didn't do or can or can't do or won't do or is planning... and therefore who is dangerous or is useless or is dangerous and useless.
The idea that anyone can be or is demasculinized, defeminized, dehumanized, or de-anything else positive by others asserting their own or others' right to exist, and to exist as they are without harming others. The truth is that it's you that should get to define your own masculinity, femininity, or way of being a person... at any given point in time, in any situation. I know it doesn't always happen-- forcible coercive crap exists. But that force and coercion is coming from above in society, not from those you blame for standing up to it. Everyone needs to know they have every moral right to exist as and show up as and present as who they actually are, who they choose to be at any point in time... that yes they ARE perfectly fit to judge for themselves who they want and need to be here or there or anywhere.
The idea that the religious, spiritual, or moral rules only apply to the lower-downs in society. The idea that the higher-ups will forever remain too big to fail and too powerful to be disciplined and seem too smart and superior to be questioned. That they won't, like all others. have to pay back the extent of their overreach to those they overreached all over and onto and into. The overkill and collateral damage. Because we cause collateral damage, but God and the overall All There Is doesn't. God and the overall All There Is is what rectifies that collateral damage, ultimately with everyone else's help too. That karma, or whatever you call it, happens when the toxic overreacher doesn't realize the error of their ways and express to their victims how and why they did realize it, and how and why they'll never treat them that way again. The karma happens to the extent that the overreacher still doesn't realize it. And it happens for every toxic overreach, in front of the person who got violated by the overreach and in a way that person will undertand and appreciate, and to the extent of that toxic overreach, in the situation that overreach happened that was never fully resolved (and doesn't get resolved until the overreacher either does the above learning and admission of "I'll treat you better next time" (which is the preferable way) or gets their karma forcing them to learn it.)
And society's very toxically-overreaching idea that forcible overreach is okay and not toxic, or is necessary or permissable or unavoidable, often "for that person's own good" or to "save others from that person" when the person isn't dangerous at all, or to "rescue society from the burden of that person's existence" (need I go into that one more?) In actuality, this overreach harms the person it is aimed to limit, and overreach is never okay... it's not okay to harm someone other than to do so accidentally or unavoidably in the process of stopping them from being an obvious, literally currently active, direct physical threat to others' lives, physical integrity, and/or liberty to move freely or be left to sit around in peace if that's what they want.
And society's sick idea that being tortured or dehumanized makes one a better person, rather than the person themself making themself a better person which they would have done with or without the torture and dehumanization. So anyone who asks me "But didn't hearing about or witnessing others be treated as lesser lifeforms, or being treated like a lesser lifeform yourself in this way or that way, make you a better debater?" will be met with "I will never recommend it. I will never, ever support anyone trying to engineer a situation to make it happen to anyone or to deliberately help it along, in order to induce some kind of outcome, or for ANY reason."
And of course there's more. Infinitely more. This is not any sort of complete list.
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