I can't and therefore refuse to try to override my own humanity. I can't deny what I need to exist. I can't transcend my own need to exist. I didn't choose to need this or that to exist. Why would anyone choose to have a material NEED... a need is a lacking! And I'm not Jesus Christ... I don't die for others' sins. I know better but my brainstem doesn't... so why don't you cut yours out if you expect me to dispense with mine. You won't be telling me how that went... you'll be showing me. You will get as far as the floor.
I'm not a savage but my brain is underneath. Yours is too. A currently-live person or any creature, and their brain, are 2 entities that need each other. Not the same thing though.
We need to acknowledge the sentience and agency... The needs and rights and wishes and feelings... Of everything and everyone ... including what we have to live in or carry around with us. That baseline of respect for life AKA for freedom though not freedom to oppress others... and having our needs met, though never demanding a particular person meet them... Demanding an organization meet some of them is okay. ..and we all need to respect everyone's right to the freedom to meet their needs. Nothing and no one is unessential. Only empty space is not sentient... But it... Its lack of "it"ness... Is essential... For us to move around in... To also appreciate ourselves and each other for living alongside... We need to acknowledge it but not roll around in it all the time. Shaking hands with it doesn't mean having sex with it or letting it violate you.
Like with everyone... you too... Expecting too much of me in any department is expecting too little from me in the department of being who I actually am and thus need to be... It's setting me up to get blamed and pitied and dehumanized for not being who you wanted or expected... And thus for not being valid or enough or legitimate or essential at all. You end up thinking I'm no good at all. A subhuman or a nobody or a nothing.
Forcing-- shoehorning-- is faking. It is not sustainable. It SHOULDN'T be sustainable at all. One day it won't be.
Trying for or demanding an alternative expression or identity or literal perfection from oneself or anyone else as a person or as a particular type is dehumanizing to them and soon to you... Because do you expect or want to be dehumanized once you yourself fail to posture and pose and fake-please others including those who might be the wrong crowd for you, and suck up to them and value the letter over the point... The commentary over the point... The popular presentation over the point... The temporary surface order over the permanent highest and deepest order... The party loyalty over the reason the party was formed... Sacrificing any or all souls for anything at all.
The idea that your luxuries are your only rights and the only evidence of your humanity... That you don't need solid human rights. Or don't deserve them. That you have anything at all if you have or think you have no rights.
That drinking the punch that tells you dehumanizing shit including to dehumanize yourself and others is what makes you smart rather than the one thing that is keeping you from thinking and acting smart. It's the punch that's telling you you have to keep drinking it. It's the punch that's telling you you'll die from withdrawal if you don't drink it... You need something more humane to replace it before stopping drinking it.
Remember what someone said? "One lost his arm... One lost her sanity... One lost his freedom... One lost her dignity. They all lost their dream."
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