Clockwork orange. What a strange idea.
People would never, ever be so brutal.
Right?
I want to put every shred of energy i have into loving those who do wrong. I want to cuddle erdogan. He might be evil, but if we don't try, the only thing that remains is death. I do not want that. Cuddle into submission or restrain without pain.
We fucking can be better. We can. No matter what they say.
@admitsWrongIfProven
I often fantasize about a world in which we could somehow, say, force narcissists to deeply, honestly contemplate their own selves (something narcissists pathologically don't do) and by that affect a cure in at least a good chunk of cases.
It's impossible at this point, and for all I know may never be possible. I'm not even sure if it would be ethical even if we could do it. Violence may need to be an option, albeit a sparingly used one, for those cases beyond help. But even if it is necessary for the Putins and Xi Jinpings of now and forever to be forcefully restrained, I still acknowledge the sorrow I feels at the fact that people that broken exist.
@mathlover The sorrow is not that they exist. People that broken exist in legion. The sorrow is that some of them are in power. And people in power over others, that is what is wrong. Anyone who would be a good leader could tell you: i do not want to be a leader.
@admitsWrongIfProven Agreed. Indeed, if the existence of human power over others were reduced or even eliminated through the creation of fairer and better systems, we would be able to resolve most problems arising from broken people in the first place, and the world would be far better off as a result.
It is nonetheless true that, were all the broken people to one day wake up fixed, the world would be a still better place for it. The fact that this can't happen, and very possibly can never happen, is a tragedy, and even if its immutability makes it invisible to many, that does not prevent me from feeling sad about that fact.
@mathlover Nobody will ever wake up fixed.
We all have our issues, and the realistic way through that is to put in the work and think about it.
The death-cult is telling you to work, reality is you have to work through your trauma.
They say "notice me", but before you can help them, you need to help yourself.
Notice me, senpai!
Maybe. Maybe.