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Power Femme
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Cinnamon spiced, caramel colored, power-femme
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She
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Married to a wonderful horse girl
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Lat: 45.60 Lon: -122.60
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Originally Posted by apretty
1-4 because thinking is hard and humans like to feel comforted, like a giant adult-sized binky that tells you everything's gonna be alright: continue to hate who you hate, work in a job that doesn't pay you enough to live, do x, y, and z and if you're good, you get a big giant reward in the end! yay!
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Have you, by any chance, read Bright Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich or Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges? I just finished reading them (one as an audiobook) and highly recommend them. Both are scathing looks at how we have become a culture of people who, for all the world, appear to prefer our comforting illusions over the hard work of actually changing society. On the one hand we have the purveyors of 'The Secret' telling us that wishing makes it so (in prettier words but that's still the message) which can easily (and does) slip into the realm of blaming those at the bottom of the well for their position. If we create our own reality and your reality happens to be that you are destitute you created it and therefore there's no reason to question the system in which I have a lot and you have little or nothing. On the other hand, we have people claiming that God will rapture certain humans up and grind the rest underneath Jesus' sandals and so why even *bother* worrying about global warming? While we typically put the former on the Left side of the spectrum and the latter on the Right, I tend to see them as being far more alike than different.
Cheers
Aj
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"People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so, the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn’t that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn’t measure up." (Terry Pratchett)
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