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RE: No F*cks Given

in Reflections8 months ago

𝗜 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗮𝗿𝗴𝘂𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮 𝗼𝗳 “𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺𝘀” 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱.

I don't agree with this, as I think it assumes that a person is incapable of understanding terminology. Calling something something different, doesn't necessarily mean it has been reframed, it might just be relabelled. This is what a lot of the identity conversation is about - relabelling the world, as if it is something different than the reality it was when it was called something else.

Human experience is all subjective, isn't it? There is no objective truth in experience, even if an objective truth is known academically. When it comes to "someone has said it before" is the same as when different groups invested wheels at different times globally, without interaction. It doesn't matter who is first, but we live in a world where being first seems to matter to many people.

I wrote a post a long time ago about Shakespeare and how there is more wisdom in the satire written, than in most of the academic textbooks today.