“Virakti Vairaagya and Vanvas are continuum along mindset that sets in some evolved people, when betrayed by people or circumstances.”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“Although socialists are often accused of being entitled, socialism is about giving what you can and only taking what you need. On the other hand, the social justice warrior movement is about taking what you can and giving only what you must.”
Source: IDiots: How Identity Politics is Destroying the Left
“Another major problem is that privilege theory describes the symptoms rather than the cause of call inequalities. For example, being well educated happens because of class privilege. It is not a privilege in itself. By focussing on the end result of privilege, rather than the cause, privilege theory fails to understand the origins of inequality.”
Source: IDiots: How Identity Politics is Destroying the Left
“By saying that not experiencing discrimination is an unearned privilege, it implies that some people deserve to be discriminated against. It gives the impression that you must earn the right to be treated equally to others.”
Source: IDiots: How Identity Politics is Destroying the Left
“Intersectionality is no longer about recognising the compound effect of being part of multiple oppressed groups. It is now about the idea that all people from marginalised groups belong to one homogenous block with shared political views and interests.”
Source: IDiots: How Identity Politics is Destroying the Left
“A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is the gap that opens up between event and existing narratives to explain that event, Being creatures of narrative, humans tend to be very uncomfortable with meaning vacuums- which is why those opportunistic players, the people I have termed "disaster capitalists," have been able to rush into the gap with their preexisting wish lists and simplistic stories of good and evil.”
Source: Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
“People see what they want to see, speak what they want to speak, but many are not interested in discovering the whole truth. We often cannot share it with them because they lack the patience to listen.”
“I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. (Ecclesiastes 9:11)”
“Necessary Equals by Stewart Stafford
The grandest hearth cannot warm,
Once grave chills touch the aged,
The beggar donates his last coin,
At a counting house of the well-waged.
The giant is meek and misunderstood,
As the slighted short one grows fiery,
Life's spun gold pawned for pennies,
The stricken strive to buy back entirely.
In old age, winter shadows lengthen,
As babes on tiptoes crave growth,
So-called leaders spit out patron's lies,
As a street madman roars his frank oath.
Opposing siblings they are, but needed,
Fellow travellers orbit on a path seeded.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
“We have experienced so many changes in such a short time that we’ve lost our common bonds.”
Source: Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future