Woke up, checked my inbox nice surprise good article. Level headed opinion on an explosive topic which I appreciate, I can’t do the far right stuff, as it causes to many negative internal emotions and mental health risks even tho I agree with some of it… it also depends what people consider far right which if your a corporation of any kind you would probably call this/us far right which now a days doesn’t even hold any meaning it’s just turned into a derogatory term people use when they don’t like your opinion or have one of their own that makes little to no sense. Cheers Alex look forward to more…
Thanks for this clear-headed analysis, and in particular for speaking truth to The Daily Sceptic! We all need to keep checking for agendas lying behind our viewpoints and judgements of others. They are apparently very hard to spot from within, and can result in startling hypocrisy when viewed from without.
Can't tell you how much of a relief it is to hear "clear" and "level" headed (previous comment)! Half expected mass condemnation for failing to hate. Still, there's time for the police to turn up with an accusation of "implied anti-semitism" ...
There are so many varieties of original sin these days. I know I've experienced first-hand accusations of racism (purely because of the colour of my skin - no getting round it), transphobia (because I know through first-hand experience what a woman is, and isn't), and trying to kill people (through listening to what my own body needs to remain healthy and alive). Now we're all antisemites, with redemption only possible if we atone for our sins by swearing fealty to the state of Israel. Humanity quite simply cannot exist healthily on a basis of eternal guilt and shame. I think we're only going to get out of this when people finally wake up to the fact that they are being deliberately corralled into groups hating each other on the basis of which one is being more hateful (=sinful).
Absolutely. I've had a lot of discussions about precisely this on X but the other parties generally reply along the lines of "we have to/they made us do it" - exactly the childlike mentality I'm trying to describe here. In fact, their comments were the inspiration for this piece - which I didn't want to write!
Woke up, checked my inbox nice surprise good article. Level headed opinion on an explosive topic which I appreciate, I can’t do the far right stuff, as it causes to many negative internal emotions and mental health risks even tho I agree with some of it… it also depends what people consider far right which if your a corporation of any kind you would probably call this/us far right which now a days doesn’t even hold any meaning it’s just turned into a derogatory term people use when they don’t like your opinion or have one of their own that makes little to no sense. Cheers Alex look forward to more…
As Dominic Frisby says, we're all "far right" now!
Thanks for this clear-headed analysis, and in particular for speaking truth to The Daily Sceptic! We all need to keep checking for agendas lying behind our viewpoints and judgements of others. They are apparently very hard to spot from within, and can result in startling hypocrisy when viewed from without.
Can't tell you how much of a relief it is to hear "clear" and "level" headed (previous comment)! Half expected mass condemnation for failing to hate. Still, there's time for the police to turn up with an accusation of "implied anti-semitism" ...
There are so many varieties of original sin these days. I know I've experienced first-hand accusations of racism (purely because of the colour of my skin - no getting round it), transphobia (because I know through first-hand experience what a woman is, and isn't), and trying to kill people (through listening to what my own body needs to remain healthy and alive). Now we're all antisemites, with redemption only possible if we atone for our sins by swearing fealty to the state of Israel. Humanity quite simply cannot exist healthily on a basis of eternal guilt and shame. I think we're only going to get out of this when people finally wake up to the fact that they are being deliberately corralled into groups hating each other on the basis of which one is being more hateful (=sinful).
Absolutely. I've had a lot of discussions about precisely this on X but the other parties generally reply along the lines of "we have to/they made us do it" - exactly the childlike mentality I'm trying to describe here. In fact, their comments were the inspiration for this piece - which I didn't want to write!
It's good you wrote it. Stuff needs naming. If we can avoid the shaming!