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I would consider myself pretty well acquainted with adulthood but i dont think I will ever get used to how normalized it is to just be fake.
I know women who will preach high and mighty about feminism but would give all of their power and autonomy to a man if it meant simply not having to work. I know men who will label themselves as communists simply because capitalism didn‘t give them what they feel socially and financially entitled to, without bothering to examine that entitlement in the first place.
Like,,, do people just not,,,, think,,, meaningfully about themselves?? Am I just insane??? Am I a sucker for thinking a little honesty will get me anywhere in life?? Should I just be abandoning my narrative for money like everyone else seemingly is?? or do I just need to get out of [redacted US state]?
Apr 14, 2025
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I’m racking my brain trying to figure out an answer. In my delusions I think that I am almost frightfully consistent in my beliefs and character and most things I do and think follow a kind of internal logic.
The only thing I’ve been able to come up with is that as much as I may joke about it and despite the terrible experiences I’ve had (like many/most women do) I really don’t hate men like most of my friends do LOL. I really don’t want to sound like a pick-me I’m being serious unfortunately. I think I’ve been fortunate to have some really amazing men in my life and I like to evaluate people on a holistic basis. So even that makes sense actually now that I think about it.
If I come up with something better I’ll let you know.
Nov 8, 2024
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I am lucky to have had the circumstances in my life that has led me to question authority, not take things at face value, and to focus on building community to combat feelings of hopelessness. This has been long and arduous and only possible because I didn't have to deal with other resources in my life being scarce.
Scarcity creates a survival-mode and flight/fight/freeze/fawn are the ways people live within that mode. It is near impossible to think philosophically or critically when you are being provided scarcity.
I think there is some amount of innate desire of humans to be taken care of right? In an animalistic way. The unnatural and inhumane use of capitalism has for so many people created a gap within that desire of being taken care of and actually being taken care of.
I believe that the combination of this survival mode/fight-flight-etc. and the chasm that many people feel of that intense unmet desire to be taken care of has led to the situation that we find ourselves in today. These people were not born to be these fearful, distrustful, paranoid, cagey people. They were babies who needed to be taken care of. They were babies and children who, through circumstances outside of their control, were not taken care of. Yes, as adults they "should" be able to make better decisions and how one grows up "shouldn't" dictate what they do to others. But that's an easy thing to say when you have those resources and have *no idea* what it feels like to have not had them. This is pretty much a mixture of the other responses, because compassion and knowing that people are hurting is basically what makes me not mad at them. I get frustrated and I wish the circumstances were different, and I will defend myself or others if need be from violent behavior, but I do not hate these people. I am mad at the selfishness that has been able to be bred in this society through hundreds of years.
Jan 28, 2025
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to set the stage here I organized as a college student/adjacent to a political cult (was never 100% brainwashed and pulled in) so this answer is going to diverge from many other answers. I’ll say in my opinion that trying to divide or merge person and politic is a zero sum game or detrimental for my personal life and political consequences at large
I don’t allow myself to get into situations where this would be remotely possible and that either comes off as extremely myopic or cushioned from reality but I’m choosing to accept that. In my friendships or making new friends I try to be a remotely ok judge of character to determine if political beliefs will inflame the friendship
no amount of brain power would make me consider changing someone’s mind on politics in a friendship but its likely im on the same page of people who are moderate or political disengaged to discuss freely about it
Hannah Arendt once observed that the personal and political spheres merging creates this space where we can no longer ”act” in politics but we behave as economic actors or consumers. I think she’s on the money about this to this day - politics on the whole are very much boiled down to a market choice for me and not visible in my personal life much
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