I haven't 100% given up on "woo" either. I just have the Chaote's mental condition of being able to see simultaneously "inside" and "outside" the "woo" if that makes sense.
And I've been in enough places where "looking critically at woo and maybe saying no to some of it" was seen as a betrayal of belief that I am perhaps oversensitive to criticism that "having a stable job" or "prioritizing my family" is abandoning the truth or whatever.
I remember this phenomenon acutely form the soulbonding/otherkin/fictionkin part of Livejournal. And I've come to have the opinion that any idea, identity, situation, or condition you aren't allowed to question is just dogma. Especially when it's your own.
EDIT: This was a big part of the whole Matrix Cult paradigm (as I'm sure you remember.) He Who shall Not Be Named was very adamant that no one could do both. No one could have both. You were either 100% invested in "Woo," or you were 100% invested in Being an Ikea-shopping normie sellout.
What else can I say but "only a Sith deals in absolutes?"
My main issue is really the fact that capitalism doesn't want to let people do any of it. You can't self-actualize unless you are 100% committed to the conformist Rat Race - forget being even a little abnormal, because if you're asking questions about identity and what it means, you're not committed to GETTING THAT BREAD or ROLLING THAT BOULDER. Capitalism doesn't want to allow for anything outside itself to exist. It wants us all to be too focused on the struggle for survival to even question it, or anything else.
I tried to tell Draven that our biggest foe was consumer capitalism back in 2005, and he didn't want to hear it. Especially because there has always been that nagging gnat of a question in the back of every multiple, soulbonder or fictionkin person's mind, "what does it mean that my identity is sourced from an intellectual property?"
(EDIT again, I'm sorry about your inbox) and I think the answer to that is that it means whatever the individual soulbonder, fictionkin, or multiple feels it means or want it to mean. There's something there about the reclaiming of myth from the corporate capitalist entities who claim it as "intellectual property." There's something about the meaning of symbols, symbols transcending ownership, and about individual interpretation and individual identity.
I'm sorry about this, this movie and this whole topic of dialogue has stirred a lot of feelings that I didn't even know I was dealing with.
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And I've been in enough places where "looking critically at woo and maybe saying no to some of it" was seen as a betrayal of belief that I am perhaps oversensitive to criticism that "having a stable job" or "prioritizing my family" is abandoning the truth or whatever.
I remember this phenomenon acutely form the soulbonding/otherkin/fictionkin part of Livejournal. And I've come to have the opinion that any idea, identity, situation, or condition you aren't allowed to question is just dogma. Especially when it's your own.
EDIT: This was a big part of the whole Matrix Cult paradigm (as I'm sure you remember.) He Who shall Not Be Named was very adamant that no one could do both. No one could have both. You were either 100% invested in "Woo," or you were 100% invested in Being an Ikea-shopping normie sellout.
What else can I say but "only a Sith deals in absolutes?"
My main issue is really the fact that capitalism doesn't want to let people do any of it. You can't self-actualize unless you are 100% committed to the conformist Rat Race - forget being even a little abnormal, because if you're asking questions about identity and what it means, you're not committed to GETTING THAT BREAD or ROLLING THAT BOULDER. Capitalism doesn't want to allow for anything outside itself to exist. It wants us all to be too focused on the struggle for survival to even question it, or anything else.
I tried to tell Draven that our biggest foe was consumer capitalism back in 2005, and he didn't want to hear it. Especially because there has always been that nagging gnat of a question in the back of every multiple, soulbonder or fictionkin person's mind, "what does it mean that my identity is sourced from an intellectual property?"
(EDIT again, I'm sorry about your inbox) and I think the answer to that is that it means whatever the individual soulbonder, fictionkin, or multiple feels it means or want it to mean. There's something there about the reclaiming of myth from the corporate capitalist entities who claim it as "intellectual property." There's something about the meaning of symbols, symbols transcending ownership, and about individual interpretation and individual identity.
I'm sorry about this, this movie and this whole topic of dialogue has stirred a lot of feelings that I didn't even know I was dealing with.