A HANDY CHART FOR THOSE OF YOU WONDERING WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THESE. NOTE THAT THESE ARE ALL THE INFORMAL AND YOU IS THE FORMAL SO LIKE YOU WOULD ALWAYS ADDRESS YOUR SUPERIOR/ OLDER PERSON/ SOCIAL BETTER WITH YOU BUT WITH YOUR BUDS YOU CAN USE THESE.
We had an assignment in class to write a manifesto. I just started writing with no topic in mind and that's what came out.
I don't particularly like it, it's not what I'll bring to class, but I still wanted to put it somewhere, so here you go.
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It’s time of chaos and unrest, of cruelty and self righteousness. It’s time of performative virtue and anger redirected to the weak and othered.
It’s a time like any other time.
When Self accredited liberals turn on their peers for being imperfect in their eyes. When the blue-haired-neo-pronounssed-vegenazi, height of radical acceptance and open-mindedness, sends death threats to strangers online. No matter the crime, no matter the indiscretion, you have been deemed a pervert and must suffer a social and literal death.
Because there is no opinion you can hold, no action you can take, that will assuage them to spare you. They have made up their mind. You’re digging your grave a little deeper with each attempt at reason or repentance.
And the crimes they find so horrendous? Who can say?
A post celebrating the death of a fictional character can generate the same outrage as one condemning a real life one.
There is no separation between non and fiction. They’re all on the other side of the screen. They’re all far away and shaped as your mind decided, as the masses depict them.
Are they murderers? Abusers? Pedophiles? The scum of the earth that should be shunned from society and left for dead?
Are they righteous? Virtuous? Infallible in mind and heart? Could throw the first stone?
Or, and that’s where many will turn on me, are human beings complex? Hold the capacity for great empathy and deeds of unfathomable kindness, all while being petty, and ignorant, and self-serving to the point of doing harm.
Harm is subjective. There are laws and societal rules that give us a guideline, a script to follow, which is very helpful to most, for those who struggle to pick up on distress as much as on joy.
But harm is subjective. Guidelines are wonderful, but just like with everything else, no one size fits all. Not all people, not all scenarios, not all complexities.
“one men’s trigger is another’s catharsis”
“If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing.”
It was used to be taught as a principle of a functioning society, without it the community crumbles. Without the community the individual crumbles. Without the individual there is no community.
No one is irredeemable. No one deserves malice. Not even the worst person you can think of. Not even for the worst crime you can think of. We all deserve compassion and support. We all deserve help even if we fight it, even if we have no one to ask. Especially if we have no one.
#this is hte most perfectly captured rendering of aang and sokka’s dynamic asl;dkgalskfjas#they’re both smart in the exact way that cancels one another out into pure chaotic stupidity @fiddleabout
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