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It’s like I accidentally stumbled onto some other species’ homeworld when I was a kid and never figured out how to fit in.
Familiar.
The day before one of my culture’s biggest celebrations, when family is supposed to be all together and shit, I realized I’m just... utterly alone.
Familiar squared.
But if I can’t convince the people who care about me, I don’t like my chances of convincing anyone else.
Well, there's always figuring out how to fit in.... ;-)
I don't believe in such a thing as convincing others. That they are *other* to begin with implies a conceptuality chasm unbridgeable by aspects of reality (called "individuals") that are separate by definition.
So why do I bother writing?
Not to convince, but as an invitation for already like-minded others to play.
But I don't get the hopes up too high, as so far it's happened maybe just thrice in, oh, 25-some years....
If you don’t want to be somewhere, and no one there wants you either, it’s only reasonable that you should find someplace else to be.
Gets a bit awkward when that “somewhere” is the whole world, though, doesn’t it...?
Individuality is quite the isolated island, no?
What should the government do for us?
They don’t. They just want the government to do what it should have been doing all along: Serving the people, not ruling us.
The beings of this world are more likely to crucify a servant than elect one.