>> Well, that's a big ol'list of tick boxes, with about half of them filled in for me... <<
Bummer.
>> I'm working on healing, and some I never had, but I've a ways to go yet it seems. Not helped by the fact that at it's root, society itself is abusive, or at least, run by abusers.<<
Sadly so. Look at America, deliberately electing an internet troll to the highest office. There is no clearer endorsement of sexism, racism, and other abuse.
>> Omelas, but with more than one person in the hole. <<
That story has always been an allegory about classism. And the discussion question is always, "Would you stay as part of the privileged, or would you walk away and give up the privileges?" There is no acknowledgement that other alternatives even exist such as breaking the society from within -- or mine, which was "I'd break the scapegoat out of prison, spread accelerant, and throw a match behind me as I left."
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dancing_serpent
Thoughts
Date: 2017-12-03 08:41 pm (UTC)Bummer.
>> I'm working on healing, and some I never had, but I've a ways to go yet it seems. Not helped by the fact that at it's root, society itself is abusive, or at least, run by abusers.<<
Sadly so. Look at America, deliberately electing an internet troll to the highest office. There is no clearer endorsement of sexism, racism, and other abuse.
>> Omelas, but with more than one person in the hole. <<
That story has always been an allegory about classism. And the discussion question is always, "Would you stay as part of the privileged, or would you walk away and give up the privileges?" There is no acknowledgement that other alternatives even exist such as breaking the society from within -- or mine, which was "I'd break the scapegoat out of prison, spread accelerant, and throw a match behind me as I left."
Eventually I wrote a poem about it.