11-19-2017, 12:02 AM
I don't know much about these streaks of light, but I'll just give you credit for your perceptions being accurate and gloss over that.
This might not always have been true, and I'm certain it isn't even true for every person everywhere even right now, right this exact second, but most of us (in this case, I mean English speakers with access to the internet) live in so-called "liberal democracies". Liberal in this case means focused on INDIVIDUAL FREEDOMS. There's nothing precisely wrong with that, individual freedoms are great. A woman's right to have an abortion, for example. A black man's right to not be shot at by the police for no reason is another good one, but since I think you're British that might not be your scene. The right to own property is a good one, and the right to own a business and not have the government just take it away from you and give it to someone else is one that gets a lot of attention, also.
This is the filter through which most people see the world. Most people don't know that because they're taught in school that all the alternatives are supposed to be worse.
Freedom, "liberal", "liberate", "liberated", freedom is freedom FROM other people. Freedom from outside interference.
Sexuality is "outside interference" by another person par excellence and is therefore incompatible with liberal democracy, and is therefore revolutionary. It just can't exist peacefully in the world that most of us live in, day to day, and having any sexual feeling at all is a political compromise.
This might not always have been true, and I'm certain it isn't even true for every person everywhere even right now, right this exact second, but most of us (in this case, I mean English speakers with access to the internet) live in so-called "liberal democracies". Liberal in this case means focused on INDIVIDUAL FREEDOMS. There's nothing precisely wrong with that, individual freedoms are great. A woman's right to have an abortion, for example. A black man's right to not be shot at by the police for no reason is another good one, but since I think you're British that might not be your scene. The right to own property is a good one, and the right to own a business and not have the government just take it away from you and give it to someone else is one that gets a lot of attention, also.
This is the filter through which most people see the world. Most people don't know that because they're taught in school that all the alternatives are supposed to be worse.
Freedom, "liberal", "liberate", "liberated", freedom is freedom FROM other people. Freedom from outside interference.
Sexuality is "outside interference" by another person par excellence and is therefore incompatible with liberal democracy, and is therefore revolutionary. It just can't exist peacefully in the world that most of us live in, day to day, and having any sexual feeling at all is a political compromise.