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matrixmann ([personal profile] matrixmann) wrote2016-01-29 02:04 am

Individual Manifesto

Individualism, lived with a certain seriousness, turns out to be a burden.
Sitting on a fence, as they call it, you're neither fish nor fowl, finding somebody to talk only sometimes develops into a real obstacle that is not as easy to solve.
Most humans have their asserted groups they feel loyalty to, and they follow them, more or less, just by the book. The only ones you get corrupted to adapt some to their own from another one's set of articles of faith are those ones which reach for money and richness. As money doesn't have opinions on things of life, it itself is the opinion to a set of things.
But assumed, you don't move inside a category where money can help you, it is like being a Martian trapped on planet earth and it is full of simple morons. You are from a space that they fail, most of the time, to get and to understand life is much more dynamic than they like to imagine.
What contradiction is there to be a gun friend, but on the other hand talk like a leftist?
What contradiction is there between finding giving a lot of freedom, but on the other hand putting the rich into chains, so they not fuck up the public order by unrestrained behavior?
What doesn't make it suit together to be not supportive unconditionally towards every influx from other countries, but not carrying a Nazi flag with you or go to Bible study?
What, especially as a German, makes you be "Michel" if you don't act the blind-trusting member of the 1968 generation?
It seems like people have hardened fronts and narrowed minds in their heads and through this lens they judge everything critically that they get to see. They don't look for anything being different from what they know, they look for pressing everything into a given form and that is the way they understand everything as what they meet. - Be it those explicitly not calling for something other than their own or be it those which claim they want to hear differing opinions.
In between you find yourself, if you don't agree with neither one of these groups, and think like it's time to get insane - because you cannot bear it to be confronted with this stubbornness. Let alone the reactions if you start to pour out what you really think and they don't know where to put you and regard this as an aggressive act.

Being on a Fence

[identity profile] red-child.livejournal.com 2016-01-31 07:29 am (UTC)(link)
Do you think the natural order of aspirations and interpretations as indoctrinated into being by the standing, well-practiced and widely recognized groups that exist in this world creates a natural inclination for systematic hostility towards anyone who doesn't fit into either of the bi-partisan groups that stand in power?

Let me rephrase that in less contusion-embraced formatting.

I take out of your writing that you recognize the world as having systems that stand as certain perspectives are in power, and those perspectives must be adhered to so that someone can find out where they belong in the world. These standing powers will tell you what you're supposed to believe and what you're supposed to do. These powers are ordinanced with qualifications for appealing to them, you have to fall into their definition of what their followers are like in order to belong to their group. Now there is this anomaly wherein people are sitting outside of the zones where they would be seen as qualifying to belong to these existing powers which rule and dominate the systems that build the world we live in. These people, not having a place, are resented and feared for their position of being unique and belonging in sections, identities and designs that don't abide by the rules of the powers that be. They don't match up with the world that focuses on these powers; they are outcasts, and that is terrifying to the world that sees only for the opinions as held by these existing powers that are so widely worshiped as being where people belong. Living with individualism all the way through and belonging somewhere other than in the pre-crafted images that the systems of power have built for us is a curse. The world says to be your own individual, but in practice violates the concept and fears the result.

Am I reading you correctly?