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Hope is the Seed of Progress

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An alder kitten (Furcula bicuspis) on a silver birch in the United Kingdom

by Gary Faulkner

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An adult male fantastic least gecko (Sphaerodactylus fantasticus) in Guadeloupe

[thepplprty]

I am fully anti-censorship no matter what, but before you decide to take me out back and shoot me, it comes with an important caveat.

I don't think the government should censor anything, but I think we as people have every right to harass and ostracize people who behave poorly (being bigoted, etc). People shouldn't be arrested for saying words, but they should be terrified that their town will hate them, and that they could possibly never have a social life again.

What a lot of people fail to understand is that being anti-censorship doesn't mean anyone should be able to say whatever they want with no consequences, it means that everyone can say whatever they want, with the addition that everyone else can also respond however they like.

I always hear conservatives go, "all these liberals are trying to censor me." No. Those are the consequences of your actions, under free speech. You have free speech to be a douchebag, and I have the freedom of speech to call you a bigoted piece of shit. Simple as that.

Now obviously before you go into my notes and complain, yes there is nuance to this and yes I am aware of that. There is always nuance to everything and nothing I say should be taken as black-and-white. There is always grey and those should be taken on a case-by-case basis.

[rherlotshadow]

Into the trees

[04k96]

[creepish]

they should invent going outside without people looking at you

[cryptonature]

You've had disappointments because you've been brave enough to have hopes. You've got scars because you're a foundational part of a big, wild world that leaves nothing unchanged. Keep going.

[sailatina3]

Commercials should be illegal

[eggthew]

I am choosing to have hope

[wanderthewood]

by Frank Steinmann

[torstherapy]

[winged-thinged]

You have to let people love you. You have to let people get to know you. You have to let people help you. Being so completely selfless that you try to erase yourself off the face of the planet and never ask for anything and reject everybody's offers of support makes you very hard to love! Unfortunately. Emptying yourself out of everything that makes you, you is not actually what your loved ones want from you, generally. They want to make you happy! They will be so so sad if you don't give them the chance. It's not all selfish. I promise.

[herpsandbirds]

[cristalplanetheart]

[uncanny-tranny]

I think so many people are so deeply alienated from themselves that they have no clue how to exercise their free will and autonomy. For some, this alienation runs so deep that they are afraid of their own autonomy and humanity. It is completely understandable why one would have those feelings, but it can be worrisome.

I want to help others who feel this way, so here are small things I have done to exercise my free will:

Add "guilty pleasure" songs to playlists and actually listen to them (I have a ton of late 1990s-early 2000s music I listen to now proudly that I never listened to in the past out of shame)

Getting the décor item, bath set, bed spread, ect. in the patterns you like, even if it's "childish" (I got a dinosaur-themed wastebasket from the kids' décor section and I adore it)

Taking a new route to get to a place you go to often

Eat dessert first

Celebrate well, and often

Collect things that are "odd" or don't seem like an "acceptable" thing to collect (somebody on my "for you" page collects dandelion crayola crayons and it was so cool!!!!!!)

Incorporate one new piece in an outfit you wear frequently (e.g., a new chain, a necklace, ribbons, bracelets, ect.). Challenge yourself to add onto the outfits if you feel up for it.

Sing along to songs without worrying that you sound "good" or your intonation is completely accurate

Read a book from a genre you weren't allowed to read as a kid (comics, thrillers, mysteries, anything!)

Walk without having a specific destination or goal

Pick up a new craft without expecting yourself to master it or to ever be "good" enough. Get your hands messy.

I don't want to shame anybody for not feeling as though they have free will or that they are exempt from exercising it. However, I wanted to give ideas so that you might read this list and find your own ways to express your intrinsic autonomy and will. You deserve to be a person, to feel alive, not just living. That is what our lives are for.

[standwithdaanes]

having a process for people who have done morally horrific things to make amends, rejoin community, and do right going forward is actually fundamentally crucial for the left. having a clear and accessible pathway for people to be socially (if not interpersonally) forgiven is how you get people radicalized against capitalism and imperialism and white supremacy and patriarchy. its how you turn "these people think i am a bad person" into "these people think something and someone coerced or forced me into doing bad things, and these people want to help me do something about that."

if you want more revolutionaries, you must have a system to turn guilty, traumatized, angry bystanders and collaborators into revolutionaries. and I say a system and process because its not "oh the drone operator said they were sorry and felt bad so its all good now :)" there is no shortcut here. but it is absolutely necessary. no revolution is comprised of morally pure people. in many cases, the most devoted revolutionaries are the ones who know exactly what it is like on the other side.