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   ana of the dawn (ana@starlite.rodeo)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 09:39:11 JST ana of the dawn

   theory: societal gender roles are actually so restrictive that almost no one fits them, but a whole lot of people kinda sorta fit so they learn to repress and file off the bits that don’t and they’re often more or less successful at this. we call these people “cis”

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 09:39:10 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @ana "Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness." --Peter Wessel Zapffe, "The Last Messiah"

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 10:00:58 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @ana You might enjoy the entire essay.

     I will note that Zapffe does use some gender essentialist (and slightly misogynistic) language, as he was a philosopher dude writing in 1933, but I still love "The Last Messiah" and consider it one of the great lost existentialist deep cuts.

     https://philosophynow.org/issues/45/The_Last_Messiah

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     ana of the dawn (ana@starlite.rodeo)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 10:00:59 JST ana of the dawn

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     • Kit Rhett Aultman

     @roadriverrail going to be thinking about this one for a while

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 00:09:24 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @RnDanger @ana indeed, Zappfe's insistence that "messiahs" are practically fated to be destroyed is itself an expression of the outward violence used to maintain a brittle inner peace.

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     2xfo (rndanger@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 00:09:25 JST 2xfo

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     • Kit Rhett Aultman

     @roadriverrail @ana
     That was interesting, thank you. This feels kind of related:
     I played Persona 5 a little after Trump took office the first time. There's a part of the game where you go through the social unconscious mind and people are sitting in cages reassuring themselves that they didn't do anything to cause the problems people are facing,, and,,

     I keep thinking about fascism at a personal level. That these people are trapped in their own minds trying to hide from their own awareness in an attempt to feel at peace. It doesn't work, of course. They're still prisoners in their own mind, afraid to see themselves as powerful enough to do anything about it.