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thedarlingtonshewolfThat every delineation, every generic rule applied to society is either flawed or false.
I believe there is no real distinction between men and women, colour and gender and sexual orientation; I don't believe nurturing comes easier to women, I don't believe fighting comes easier to men. I don't believe in old age or youth. I don't believe that humanity is a simple colouring book. I believe there are millions of individuals who, if allowed to discover themselves without preconcepts of who they are and what they should become, would be rampant in genius. I believe that these preconcepts are given to train us into society, to restrain and confine us, not just from doing those things that are inimical to surviving alongside one another, but to stop us from ever standing apart. We are trained to be herd, be it god's herd or government's herd.
The rules were made by those who found themselves on top and then wanted justification to stay there. And there is no stand-by rule of behaviour, not one, that covers every human being. So all these rotes, of time, of sex, of behaviour, of religion, these are just tools. They are convenient for those who will swap comfort for control, and they are convenient for those who want control and continuity. But they have nothing to do with fact or truth. They are a meme that pleases us.
I never believe that tradition must be right solely because it has always been there. I believe that longevity may give it nuance and glamour, but a thing is not more correct or more accurate because everybody believes it. It may have other merits, but a fact is not made by popularity or the comfort it brings.
And god/goddess proves one thing every minute of every day; that if such a being exists, no written laws encompass or define that being.
Yet some things happen, inexplicably, connections are made, words heard out of the dark that later make sense, occurrences that resonate, seem fated. The question then, is, do these patterns truly exist or are we just joining the dots, looking for Jesus' face in a cappucino?
Conditioning. To stand outside it and observe it is to see the whole of human social development unravel, like a snagged thread on a jumper. It isn't even mysterious.
I believe there is no real distinction between men and women, colour and gender and sexual orientation; I don't believe nurturing comes easier to women, I don't believe fighting comes easier to men. I don't believe in old age or youth. I don't believe that humanity is a simple colouring book. I believe there are millions of individuals who, if allowed to discover themselves without preconcepts of who they are and what they should become, would be rampant in genius. I believe that these preconcepts are given to train us into society, to restrain and confine us, not just from doing those things that are inimical to surviving alongside one another, but to stop us from ever standing apart. We are trained to be herd, be it god's herd or government's herd.
The rules were made by those who found themselves on top and then wanted justification to stay there. And there is no stand-by rule of behaviour, not one, that covers every human being. So all these rotes, of time, of sex, of behaviour, of religion, these are just tools. They are convenient for those who will swap comfort for control, and they are convenient for those who want control and continuity. But they have nothing to do with fact or truth. They are a meme that pleases us.
I never believe that tradition must be right solely because it has always been there. I believe that longevity may give it nuance and glamour, but a thing is not more correct or more accurate because everybody believes it. It may have other merits, but a fact is not made by popularity or the comfort it brings.
And god/goddess proves one thing every minute of every day; that if such a being exists, no written laws encompass or define that being.
Yet some things happen, inexplicably, connections are made, words heard out of the dark that later make sense, occurrences that resonate, seem fated. The question then, is, do these patterns truly exist or are we just joining the dots, looking for Jesus' face in a cappucino?
Conditioning. To stand outside it and observe it is to see the whole of human social development unravel, like a snagged thread on a jumper. It isn't even mysterious.
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Date: 2010-12-05 12:32 am (UTC)I just gave someone the link to this entry, and I told her that I might have more to say about it when my vocabulary reconstitutes– I think it melted. Four words left:
You rock.
Thank you.
-Nic
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Date: 2010-12-05 12:40 am (UTC)