- Joined
- Jan 6, 2019
This is it isn’t it? Society has been fragmented and is controlled in part by this. You’re not supposed to identify with your country, your community, your wider family, or as an individual, you’re supposed to be a two dimensional caricature of your identity group. All those groups get stacked and pitted against each other because if everyone realises they have far more in common with, say, their social class regardless of sex or race, the higher ups are screwed. Or they realise they are part of their immediate community around them rather than an an imposed identity group community.You are supposed to feel individually responsible for every historical sin of your identity group.
They also impose standards and beliefs to those imposed communities. So instead of being you, a nuanced human, you’re slapped with a load of labels and you’d better agree with the majority imposed set of opinions or beliefs or you’re outcast.
So you’re supposed to ‘be’ and brave one way and believe one set of things but you don’t, and that disconnect makes you feel like something is wrong. It’s making you feel like being black is wrong, when what’s really wrong is being told you should be and behave a way you don’t find organic.
Your discomfort is a stage along the way of breaking free from a lot of societal conditioning