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Where to start? Besides that it's oppresive, based on bad science, reductive, reactionary, and small-minded. Those feelings of insecurity are there because of
by pksebben 6y ago
Where to start? Besides that it's oppresive, based on bad science, reductive, reactionary, and small-minded.
Those feelings of insecurity are there because of a conservative cultural context, that shames difference and enforces conformity to an arbitrary norm.
Put bluntly, this system of belief will prevent you from learning real things about the world. If you constantly avoid genuine interactions with people because those interactions scare you, you'll never learn why those interactions are not actually scary.
I would direct you to Plato's cave. Petersen is asking you to take the shadows on the wall at face value.
- fuckminster_b 6y agoThe flaw in your reasoning is that you yourself have accepted a prison for your mind. I see this often among self-described liberals from the states. You assume that someone who didn't arrive at your conclusions is not aware of what's outside the cave. That's elitism. Conservatives are not stupid. Maybe they prefer 'tried and true' over 'new and better'. Taking the red pill (I'm aware of the bullshit ideological association, this is irony. My pop cultural point of reference is Matrix) is a taking a leap of faith. Given who's offering said pill ("liberals" like you), passing on it is actually sound decision making.