Reply #158: Your perception of my words is also in your head. What I suggest is a very real possibility on the [View All]

internet. Our words are nothing but digits. I don't know you, nor what you do.

I risk being honest about how you could be perceived not only by me, but also by others. I really do regret that you **apparently** can't handle that.

Absolutist, and hence Exclusive, proclamations are about Power, the power to assert one's self over ALL others. Unless and until everyone becomes exactly like you/yours in every way, Others are NOT going to go away. They are not going to stop being who/what they are on your say so, no matter how right you are. What do you suggest we do with them? Shall we force them somehow? How far shall we go with that?

I asked you how we are to deal with this fact, that people aren't going to just disappear because you are "right" and they aren't, and you turned that into an attack on me because I do not conform to your idea of your own righteousness. I broke your taboo about your own rectitude. How DARE I ask!!

And you didn't answer, so it is possible that "How?" is of less importance than your status as the resident saint or whatever.

I am left to guess what the answer might be and the most likely possibility is Force. We are to FORCE them to do what some people think is "right" and I say that might work for a short while, but inevitably, the truth will assert itself and since the whole "solution" is based upon the power to force others to live by the tenets of Economic Justice, rather than upon their free choice to do so, we will find that once again we have "the 'new' boss, same as the old boss", different acoutrements and wardrobe, but the same lack of respect for humanity will result in the same losses to humanity, just for different reasons this time around.

Now go ahead and turn this reply into another attack on me and, thus, prove that I am right in what I say in this post.

Or, you could answer my question about how we are going to do this thing that NEEDS to be done and demonstrate how wrong I am: that you do not assume that the solution lies in the coercion and oppression of those with whom you disagree. Show me how I am wrong about you; I am willing to read it.

btw: I am currently earning about half of what I am told I am worth, fighting, **every** **second** of my life between the hours of 9-5, M-F (and quite a bit on a de facto basis outside of those hours), for the standards of care for the elderly and disabled poor.

P.S. Real Revolution begins with Real self criticism.