DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

Freeberg is always worth reading.

Part of the Architect/Medicator divide is that medicators want to make everyone else a medicator, and a defining behavior of Medicators is that they react emotionally to things. The logical consequence to all that is, people who react emotionally to things want everyone else to react emotionally to things…which, we see, is true. They forget the “O.J. Simpson Trial” rule: Two people from different walks of life, can see exactly the same thing, and come away with wildly different conclusions about what it means, with neither one of them sustaining the slightest question or doubt about what they’ve concluded.

There is, indeed, a lot of that going around. (This afflicts judges and juries, too; one of the reasons I’m not practicing law.)

When people are bludgeoned into this living-of-life-to-avoid-conflict, sooner or later, you always see someone, somewhere, laboring under a commandment that they need to stop living life, or to live less life. So that someone else isn’t offended. Very often, when the “someone else” doesn’t actually exist, and is thought about only as a hypothetical: “Take that American flag down, someone might find it offensive.”

Not an actual person, mind you, much less an actual person with a persuasive argument on his side; some hypothetical person who may or may not exist but nevertheless has some mystical power to constrain the behavior of real people. This is stupid.

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