What you tell helps me and other readers better to understand your outlook, your motivation.
For many years now I've been turning over in my mind what it means to have been a victim, the dangers that go with victimhood, especially when victim status becomes an integral part of a person's or a group's identity.
What you tell helps me and other readers better to understand your outlook, your motivation.
For many years now I've been turning over in my mind what it means to have been a victim, the dangers that go with victimhood, especially when victim status becomes an integral part of a person's or a group's identity.
It seems to me that the greatest harm of all arises when the victim is indelibly marked by the evil sustained. The victim then places her or himself outside the law, at the service of whatever vengeance may demand.
Yet, wherever a society is deeply divided, by debased notions of individualism, by racism, by social stratification based on wealth and income, by affiliation tribal, whether the tribe's identity is religious, political or whatever, by all the variations on "us" and "them", that entire society falls victim to its divisions. The have-nots are victims of their deprivation, the haves are had by their having (instead of living and being). We are so often not the masters but the victims of our ideas and our emotions...
A never-ending tale of ultimately unnecessary suffering and unkindness, both inflicted and self-inflicted.
Yet kindness, the lovingkindness that would share such happiness as we find, seems so simple, so obvious.
"I would share my ease and not my disease," said Thoreau.
What you tell helps me and other readers better to understand your outlook, your motivation.
For many years now I've been turning over in my mind what it means to have been a victim, the dangers that go with victimhood, especially when victim status becomes an integral part of a person's or a group's identity.
It seems to me that the greatest harm of all arises when the victim is indelibly marked by the evil sustained. The victim then places her or himself outside the law, at the service of whatever vengeance may demand.
Yet, wherever a society is deeply divided, by debased notions of individualism, by racism, by social stratification based on wealth and income, by affiliation tribal, whether the tribe's identity is religious, political or whatever, by all the variations on "us" and "them", that entire society falls victim to its divisions. The have-nots are victims of their deprivation, the haves are had by their having (instead of living and being). We are so often not the masters but the victims of our ideas and our emotions...
A never-ending tale of ultimately unnecessary suffering and unkindness, both inflicted and self-inflicted.
Yet kindness, the lovingkindness that would share such happiness as we find, seems so simple, so obvious.
"I would share my ease and not my disease," said Thoreau.