"People love to talk about how cynicism isn’t productive, but neither is false hope. And from what I can tell, discontent is a much better force for social change."
Absolutely. You might be the first person I've seen besides myself and the Neckbeard Deathcamp guys/gals straight up say that anger is good, valid and valuable. (I'm probabl…
"People love to talk about how cynicism isn’t productive, but neither is false hope. And from what I can tell, discontent is a much better force for social change."
Absolutely. You might be the first person I've seen besides myself and the Neckbeard Deathcamp guys/gals straight up say that anger is good, valid and valuable. (I'm probably just not well read enough and there's like, a whole school of philosophy about getting shirty). But yea. Anger is how you deal with your fear to do what is right. Spite is sacrificing of yourself to ensure bad actors never victimize other people.
It's cognitively intolerable to live with the idea that you're a doormat, a coward. So the idea gets recast that they're actually morally superior. Too kind to yell, too blessed to be stressed. Anyone who does differently demonstrates the lie and they must be stopped.
I know it's conspiratorial thinking but seriously think of the people you know in your life too scared to confront their boss, their boyfriend, to just insist on their own dignity as a person because they think it would be awkward. People who get uncomfortable and try to intervene and stop you even, when they see YOU demonstrate non-passive aggression. Are they happy people, do they seem optimistic? Or do they seem afraid of confronting authority, and more than happy to dump their frustrations on any friend willing to put up with it. It's just too widespread and too convenient for the awful power structure we have for me to at least suspect at least some aspects aren't accidental.
"People love to talk about how cynicism isn’t productive, but neither is false hope. And from what I can tell, discontent is a much better force for social change."
Absolutely. You might be the first person I've seen besides myself and the Neckbeard Deathcamp guys/gals straight up say that anger is good, valid and valuable. (I'm probably just not well read enough and there's like, a whole school of philosophy about getting shirty). But yea. Anger is how you deal with your fear to do what is right. Spite is sacrificing of yourself to ensure bad actors never victimize other people.
It's cognitively intolerable to live with the idea that you're a doormat, a coward. So the idea gets recast that they're actually morally superior. Too kind to yell, too blessed to be stressed. Anyone who does differently demonstrates the lie and they must be stopped.
I know it's conspiratorial thinking but seriously think of the people you know in your life too scared to confront their boss, their boyfriend, to just insist on their own dignity as a person because they think it would be awkward. People who get uncomfortable and try to intervene and stop you even, when they see YOU demonstrate non-passive aggression. Are they happy people, do they seem optimistic? Or do they seem afraid of confronting authority, and more than happy to dump their frustrations on any friend willing to put up with it. It's just too widespread and too convenient for the awful power structure we have for me to at least suspect at least some aspects aren't accidental.