Why are some people allowed to *keep* their illusions, to cherish them, to *live* by them, even?
While others of us have our illusions continually *shattered*, crushed, destroyed – if not by others, then we are expected to do the devilish deed our*selves* – to trample them into a million shards, irreparable fragments, under our own feet?
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I hereby respectfully request: If you like something I've written enough to copy it for your own use, please give full attribution, either by providing a link back to the original writing on this site, or by citing Orts & Leavings as your source.
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- Roots of violence? and the artificial gender divide.
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I was in a traffic jamb once and a person I was with said it looks like it is going faster. I said it is'nt. A friend told me that I should not have done that as it shattered the persons illusion. I asked what happens when we get back in line and it is not moving any faster. My friend said that is not how illusions work. I don't get it.
I wonder if it is, once again, an issue of power? As in, who has the power to tell the stories that shape our reality, and who does not.
I often think that whoever believes they speak with most authority sort of 'wins', something, maybe, like what you say about 'being an asshole'? Not sure it's the same thing.
The bragging rights go to the winner. The US does not have to face the genocide of millions of Indians as they won.
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