The en-vogue social theory of modern times, when stripped of its various veneers, boils down to a simple concept: that there are oppressors and oppressed. Not individuals, mind you, but groups, aka classes, aka categories, aka "identities," and our only relevance lies in the collective. It deliberately de-individualizes us, despite the unassailable reality that we are individuals, and makes us nothing more than representatives of our identities, with concomitant obligations to conformity.
Great minds thinking alike? I note that your first paragraph echoes a post I wrote in the other forum to which we both occasionally contribute, and in which I discussed collective power vs. individual power.
I further note that you ACTUALLY published this more than a year ago, so you take primacy as far as "Said It First" goes.
Well done, and thanks for posting these intelligent and insightful observations on the world and our time in it.
Great minds thinking alike? I note that your first paragraph echoes a post I wrote in the other forum to which we both occasionally contribute, and in which I discussed collective power vs. individual power.
I further note that you ACTUALLY published this more than a year ago, so you take primacy as far as "Said It First" goes.
Well done, and thanks for posting these intelligent and insightful observations on the world and our time in it.
-- Alan