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Everyone is on a crusade nowadays and I need to vent. I'll leave examples out in order to stay an anonymous Internet dog.
Whatever you do to keep away from getting involved and from taking sides, sooner or later someone will extend his agenda into your life. Most of the time it is not much of an interference. Nevertheless it slowly ads up to the straw that breaks the camel's back. Even if I agree with your particular agenda, my life is not centered on your preoccupation. Leave me be, you don't need to add up your interference to the level of Internet marketing.
What happened to our social, cultural and economic life from less intrusive times, when it was a pleasure to discover new perspectives just by randomly interacting with strangers? We live in dogmatic times. People define themselves by belonging to one of the few predominant movements. This leads to few stereotypical "dialogues", which are quite boring. What did we do with our freedom?
Nov 28 · 4 weeks ago · 👍 gemalaya, Minko_Ikana, miragearchitect, Yretek, bumpsh
🚀 Minko_Ikana · Nov 28 at 22:43:
I agree, it is a pain. We now live in a culture of Imposition. It is like OCD. Too many with an uncontrolled drive to micromanage and impose political correctness on those who don't ask for it or care. They need to just keep their hangups to themselves. Live and let live.
Thank you for posting this, the same has been bothering me for a few years now.
It shall pass.
I don't think that time has ever existed.
there has always been injustice and there has always been movements in resistance to that injustice.
You could probably go back and find someone living through the suffragist, labour rights or antimonarchist movements of the 1800s and early 1900s, who would say word for word what you posted.
Humanity has been this way for a long time.
I certainly remember very different times, not without struggles, mind you, but with a shared will for will
@Yretek so do I.
Memories and nostalgia for a different time are never a reliable gauge.
If you say a year I could list you 100 injustices from it with enough time, to keep things topical if its within the last 75 years both Henry Kissinger and Israel are very likely to come up.
Universally minorities, gays, asylum seekers, disabled people and more have always and still do face injustices even in the most "civilised" societies.
My times weren't, probably, your times. 1975, November the 20th, General Francisco Franco Bahamonde died, leaving a young inexperienced king at the helm, one expected to pass briefly into oblivion. Spain was, of course, doomed to yet another period of strife, perhaps into a civil war. We lost one million people in the last one, in 3 years of conflict limited to a single, medium sized nation.
And yet, what it transpired is that people wanted Peace and Freedom, in that precise order. Our teachers didn't know what democracy was or could be. In any case, we Spaniards were a lost cause for democracy, too unruly.
There were a few storms gathering too... cotinued on Yretek