I’m new to your channel, just watched your video w/ Orion Kelly. Not only am I autistic, & have ADHD, but I also have a genetic disorder in which I produce faulty collagen (hEDS) and that causes me an incredible amount of physical pain. It’s taken years of gaslighting and personal research to get a diagnosis and somewhat appropriate pain treatment, but watching this video, it’s impossible for me to not see the parallels between the discussions about hierarchy, the desire for freedom, autism and PAIN MANAGEMENT. Everything outside of “normal” is classified as aberrant behavior, and when you’re in more pain than a normal person, or it takes more medication to treat your pain than “normal”, it’s like walking a tightrope. I’m viewed as an addict or manipulative, or “pill seeking”. And truly, all I want to do is live my life with less suffering. This is a great video. Thanks for sharing, & allowing me to be here. 💜👍🏻✌🏻
Thank you for your comments, and welcome! I was diagnosed with ADHD at the start of the year, so I’m an AuDHDer. It’s appalling that you have experienced such negative judgements because you simply want to reduce your suffering. I know it’s an obvious comparison to make, but imagine if people repeatedly told a person who needs a wheelchair to just use their legs and stop complaining?! It's sad that neurodivergent people are gaslit because ‘normal’ people can’t bear the thought that people are different to them and that they might need to adjust *their* mode of being to accommodate others. It's supremely arrogant and lazy to assume that everyone must be the same. I don’t care if anyone is autistic, neurotypical, or whatever - as long as they are kind and willing to learn and adjust their ways so that everyone is included.
This video reminded me of my childhood occasional rebellion against my Dad. I loved him very much but I often thought he could be too harsh with my little brother. It seemed unfair when too much of his emphasis was put on the molding of my brother into a manly sort of person, when my brother was still just a little kid. So when Dad would get angry with him for crying, I would defend my brother and get punished. I hated getting punished, but when I would see unfair treatment I just Had to say something against it. I could Not stop myself. Good video👍🏻
I'm genuinely very pleased that you have highlighted this, as it was added in at the last minute because I wanted to interrupt the footage of me just talking.
A Special Education Teacher I WAS friends with: "That child is autistic. They just need strict rules." Ohh little did way know, that was the day our friendship died.
I got in trouble so many times because of that ! I still do sometimes... This was important to explain, even more for relatives or teachers, or even friends (not even talking about work...) You are very good at explaining, I wish I had this talent. I could write a book about many topics, but when I have to talk to people, I'm a disaster. I'm old enough to not really care anymore, which makes things easier...
Merci, Cecile. I would also be much more comfortable writing a book than talking to people. But, like you, I care less about what people think as I get older - though I should add that I care very much about ignorant & offensive statements about autism and autistic people.
Hello. I just saw your video with Orion Kelly and felt compelled to leave a comment on your channel. I really enjoy the way you speak. It is neutral and comforting to me. I am not sure if I am autistic or not (I might simply be really gay and be neurodivergent in that way) but I just wanted to say that I appreciate your being, you being here and being who you are. So to sum it up: you have made me feel a little bit better about it all. Thank you for that. Sincerely. Another person.
Thank you so much for your comments. It means more than I can convey to know that I have helped you to feel better. This is exactly why I make these daft videos. I know very well how it feels to be alone and misunderstood. Whether autistic or not, you are very much appreciated. Thanks again.
I Love your *_new twists_* on the old AUTISTIC VIEWS. We NEED NEW VIEWS AND NOT THE SAME REHASHED CRAP... I ALWAYS LEARN SOMETHING listening to your videos. 😊 Thank you!!! 🙏🙏🙏 🎉🎉🎉 The rhetorical views NEED TO BE DISMANTLED BY WAY OF KNOWLEDGE. BEAUTIFUL job!!!! Hierarchies to autistics are ONLY PART OF THE WHOLE. NOT THE ENTIRE THING!!! Damn... and SUPPOSEDLY WE'RE THE RIGID ONES!?!!! LOL!!! REALLY... REALLY... REALLY!?!!!
Thank you so much. I'm trying not to simply repeat what so many other more talented and eloquent people have already said on RUclips, though there will inevitably be some overlap because I share traits with many other autistic people. I'm just presenting my version of autism in the hope that it connects with other autists and educates people who may have a stereotyped view of autism (like I did before I realised I'm autistic).
I have always been the kid calling out the Emperor, the head above the parapet. Even now I am experiencing the threat of real violence as a consequence. Normal people love a pecking order and God forbid you challenge it!
I’m sorry that you are experiencing this threat - that is not good at all. Please stay safe. Your comment made me smile: ‘Normal people love a pecking order and God forbid you challenge it!’ You are so right!
Yeah i for sure relate to seeing people as equals. I remember as a child feeling like our family should b a democracy instead of a dictatorship, which i felt it was with my dad in charge and nobody else having much say. And now i am a parent and i find it very confusing, i have to be in charge now, and i don't know how, i never have been in charge of anything before. I don't have much for leadership skills. I'm fine when I'm alone but to have to b a leader of others is very uncomfortable, so much pressure
I'm hopeless at being the boss! I tell my kids off extremely rarely. Mainly because they're lovely people but also because, as I said in the video, I can't stand conflict. I can't stand conflict so much that I will try, in other circumstances, to overcome my fear of conflict by standing up for what I think is right.
Beautifuly worded !!! Thank you!!! To me authenticity and integrity feel like not even an option. Sometimes i wish i could want to to make my life easier… but then i remember im not even good at it anyways😂 It’s the ironie of my life : i’m utterly incapable to take the easy road and yet i complain to myself about how hard it is!😂
I love this: 'I’m utterly incapable to take the easy road and yet I complain to myself about how hard it is!' Me too! Integrity is doing the right thing when no one's looking. So, instead of doing the easy thing by dropping litter, I would rather carry it around until I find a bin, even if it means carrying the litter for miles. That's a terrible metaphor, but it hopefully makes the point!
Great video ! This, of course, is where U.S. Court systems most clash with Autistic people because their social heirarchies constitute Autism discrimination. I do a lot of research on evolution due to the evolutionary Autism genes, and your video make me wonder if the Harrapan civilization where everyone was seen as equal was an Autistic population.
Thank you. I hadn’t heard of the Harrapan civilisation. For me, rules have to make sense. I really struggle with the idea that laws and morality are different things. Laws are given a veneer of objectivity and fairness, whereas a little investigation reveals that they’re often tools to maintain inequality.
Love this video & your deadpan delivery. I have a hard time respecting unearned authority too. I used to tell my classes they were all equally special individuals & they all responded well to being treated fairly & consistently. I didn't realise I was autistic while I was teaching, unfortunately! 💚
Thank you very much for your comments. I admire you for being a teacher - I’m a failed one! Isn’t it odd that we bring up children to treat people fairly and consistently, and yet adulthood is often a scary, capitalist maze in which ‘dog eat dog’ is deemed an acceptable attitude? Just pointing these things out is enough to rattle those who really benefit from hierarchies.
@@AutisticNotAlien Thank you! And exactly - children are so much easier to interact with than adults. They don't have all the preconceptions adults have formed & they're naturally aware of the concept of "fairness". BTW you're not a failed teacher if you're raising children - you (& their other parent) are their first & most important teacher 💚
@@lauraburystedmundsyoga8231 Yes, children also tend to be more honest and direct. (I appreciate that this can work in a bad way too - bullying, etc.) I guess I'm not a failed teacher if I'm raising two healthy & happy children, though their mum is actually a teacher and she deserves most of the credit!
Just started a new job and already got scolded by my boss about some minor stuff (using my phone for 0,5 minutes) that my boss interpreted as an act of disobedience, i guess. Thanks for the video, it cheered me up
So glad that I cheered you up - thank you! I bet other colleagues use their phone and don't get scolded by your boss. And that's the point - in a neurotypical universe, moral consistency is often less important than who's in the gang.
Maybe the person was receiving an important message? Maybe it was a way to very briefly break up the tedium of a working day? Maybe it helped to regulate the person's mood? etc.
I have always loved the story about the emperors new clothes. It points out exactly what I have always found so wrong with society. Like, people who suddenly couldn't be friends with me anymore, just because society decided I was "too weird", even though we liked each other and enjoyed each other's company. They didn't want the shame of being my friend because apparently, it would put them lower in the hierarchy and ruin their future somehow. Later on I have felt that I had to do the same to others, but I have always regretted it, because my weirdest friends were always the most interesting to be around, the ones with whom I found it the easiest to connect. I have always watched the hierarchies from the outside, not knowing my place in it, but probably being put right down at the bottom most of the time by others, who didn't see me as valuable, just odd and irritating. Probably lost a lot of jobs and other opportunities because of it, or been seen as untrustworthy because my body language just isn't quite right. I've been fired and ostracized many, many, many times, without understanding why or getting a proper explanation, been completely puzzled by it, I didn't think I did anything wrong.
It's a great story, isn’t it? I have met so many ‘emperors’. I’m sorry you have lost jobs and opportunities through no fault of your own. Hierarchies are often a façade, and pointing that out is another reason to exclude us and make us feel like we’re the ones in the wrong. I just want everyone to get along and be appreciated. It enrages me that people get satisfaction from fake superiority and their cruel behaviour. We’re all human. Just be kind - it’s not difficult.
I understand hierarchies of ideas and it's the idea that interests me. It doesn't matter what the title is of the person who expressed the idea. I think other autistic people think the same way. So in a sense I think autistic people understand hierarchies very well while most other people don't. Hierarcies based on old credentials doesn't impress me too much when someone else comes up with a better conclusion.
Thank you for your honesty and the time and effort you take to bring information to those whom are searching for it. Orion Kelly recommends you and I have chosen to subscribe to your channel. I hope you have an enjoyable day.
I’m glad you talked about John Clare and the enclosures. I’m currently reading Lark Rise to Candleford, an autobiographical account of rural life after the enclosures. It’s wonderful. I feel like it would be a good companion read to Capital. 😁
Yay, someone else who likes John Clare (and presumably doesn't like the enclosures)! Although I mentioned the legislation, enclosure really began in the days of William the Conqueror. There's a village a few miles from me which is named after one of his barons. Many extremely wealth people in the UK are descendants of William's barons. Land inequality is the root cause of so many modern problems. John Clare is a great way into all this history. Reading his poetry (and his prose) feels like an act of trespass because the reality of the brutality of enclosure is deliberately kept out of mainstream education.
@@AutisticNotAlienyou are right! Although I live in the states now I grew up in London and was educated there. Looking back I think the enclosures were de-emphasized to say the least!! As an adult I got interested in it especially from the perspective of women’s history but I also got super absorbed by the Diggers. I’d like to make a zine about them one of these days…
PPS lark rise is set around the 1880s so after centuries of enclosing lands and many many enclosure acts in the 1800s. I love it. (Obvs I don’t love that the lands were enclosed but I love the writing and the personal history 😅)
@@WitchPaper1 I would love to see the zine! No pressure though - I imagine it would be quite an effort to set one up. it would certainly be a good reason to, er, dig up some fascinating research!
I’m not convinced that most people want freedom. My experience of watching most people is that they want somebody with “more authority” to make it so they don’t have to try to figure out what they are supposed to do next. They want the illusion of freedom without needing to put any effort into it, and they will happily follow anybody who gives them that.
Oh yes, this is brilliantly put. Thinking is hard, and it's so depressing that so many people seem to prefer to outsource cognitive effort about the important stuff.
This is why fascism is on the rise again - we're facing extinction due to our actions & have to change, but some people are telling us they can fix things by getting rid of whoever they've scapegoated as the villains. Humans are failing badly at our Great Filter & likely won't survive.
I’d guess most people have an underlying desire for freedom, but it has been rung out of us by centuries of fear of destitution. The uprising in response to the enclosure acts, for one thing, would indicate to me that “not wanting freedom” isn’t the natural state of being for humans.
I’d guess most people have an underlying desire for freedom, but it has been rung out of us by centuries of fear of destitution. The uprising in response to the enclosure acts, for one thing, would indicate to me that “not wanting freedom” isn’t the natural state of being for humans.
Sorry if multiple duplicates from me. They keep disappearing 👻 I’d guess most people have an underlying desire for freedom, but it has been wrung out of us by centuries of fear of destitution. The uprisings in response to the enclosure acts, for one thing, would indicate to me that “not wanting freedom” isn’t the natural state of being for humans.
Personal autonomy is paramount. I can't understand why anybody chooses to be without this.. and asking for clarification is not disrespecting authority... I don't recognize the authority already... the clarification questions are just to make both our lives easier.
Yes, absolutely right. If I'm asking questions, it's all about clarification and making sense. If someone is higher up the hierarchy and can't answer the questions, they could see it as an opportunity to learn for themselves instead of interpreting it as a threat to their position. I have no interest in climbing the ladder - I just want to know what I'm doing and to be safe.
I’m new to your channel, just watched your video w/ Orion Kelly. Not only am I autistic, & have ADHD, but I also have a genetic disorder in which I produce faulty collagen (hEDS) and that causes me an incredible amount of physical pain. It’s taken years of gaslighting and personal research to get a diagnosis and somewhat appropriate pain treatment, but watching this video, it’s impossible for me to not see the parallels between the discussions about hierarchy, the desire for freedom, autism and PAIN MANAGEMENT. Everything outside of “normal” is classified as aberrant behavior, and when you’re in more pain than a normal person, or it takes more medication to treat your pain than “normal”, it’s like walking a tightrope. I’m viewed as an addict or manipulative, or “pill seeking”. And truly, all I want to do is live my life with less suffering.
This is a great video. Thanks for sharing, & allowing me to be here. 💜👍🏻✌🏻
Thank you for your comments, and welcome! I was diagnosed with ADHD at the start of the year, so I’m an AuDHDer.
It’s appalling that you have experienced such negative judgements because you simply want to reduce your suffering. I know it’s an obvious comparison to make, but imagine if people repeatedly told a person who needs a wheelchair to just use their legs and stop complaining?!
It's sad that neurodivergent people are gaslit because ‘normal’ people can’t bear the thought that people are different to them and that they might need to adjust *their* mode of being to accommodate others. It's supremely arrogant and lazy to assume that everyone must be the same. I don’t care if anyone is autistic, neurotypical, or whatever - as long as they are kind and willing to learn and adjust their ways so that everyone is included.
This video reminded me of my childhood occasional rebellion against my Dad. I loved him very much but I often thought he could be too harsh with my little brother. It seemed unfair when too much of his emphasis was put on the molding of my brother into a manly sort of person, when my brother was still just a little kid. So when Dad would get angry with him for crying, I would defend my brother and get punished. I hated getting punished, but when I would see unfair treatment I just Had to say something against it. I could Not stop myself. Good video👍🏻
I'm sorry you had to witness that behaviour. Unfair treatment drives me wild - how can people be so wilfully cruel?
The pig when you said that the emperor was naked! 🤣💀🤣💀👍🏻
I'm genuinely very pleased that you have highlighted this, as it was added in at the last minute because I wanted to interrupt the footage of me just talking.
A Special Education Teacher I WAS friends with: "That child is autistic. They just need strict rules." Ohh little did way know, that was the day our friendship died.
Oh, goodness me - no! That autistic child needs rules that make sense and respect his/her autonomy, differences, and needs.
I’m autistic and this basically summarizes my relationship with authority. Really it shouldn’t surprise anyone that I’m an anarchist.
I really should read about anarcho-syndicalism instead of just thinking I know what it means because I saw Chomsky mention it a couple of times.
We can always offer our condolences to people obsessed with hierarchy 😂
😆 Indeed!
I got in trouble so many times because of that ! I still do sometimes... This was important to explain, even more for relatives or teachers, or even friends (not even talking about work...) You are very good at explaining, I wish I had this talent. I could write a book about many topics, but when I have to talk to people, I'm a disaster. I'm old enough to not really care anymore, which makes things easier...
Merci, Cecile. I would also be much more comfortable writing a book than talking to people. But, like you, I care less about what people think as I get older - though I should add that I care very much about ignorant & offensive statements about autism and autistic people.
Hello.
I just saw your video with Orion Kelly and felt compelled to leave a comment on your channel. I really enjoy the way you speak. It is neutral and comforting to me. I am not sure if I am autistic or not (I might simply be really gay and be neurodivergent in that way) but I just wanted to say that I appreciate your being, you being here and being who you are. So to sum it up: you have made me feel a little bit better about it all. Thank you for that. Sincerely. Another person.
Thank you so much for your comments. It means more than I can convey to know that I have helped you to feel better. This is exactly why I make these daft videos. I know very well how it feels to be alone and misunderstood. Whether autistic or not, you are very much appreciated. Thanks again.
I Love your *_new twists_* on the old AUTISTIC VIEWS.
We NEED NEW VIEWS AND NOT THE SAME REHASHED CRAP...
I ALWAYS LEARN SOMETHING listening to your videos. 😊
Thank you!!! 🙏🙏🙏 🎉🎉🎉
The rhetorical views NEED TO BE DISMANTLED BY WAY OF KNOWLEDGE.
BEAUTIFUL job!!!!
Hierarchies to autistics are ONLY PART OF THE WHOLE.
NOT THE ENTIRE THING!!!
Damn... and SUPPOSEDLY WE'RE THE RIGID ONES!?!!!
LOL!!!
REALLY... REALLY... REALLY!?!!!
Thank you so much. I'm trying not to simply repeat what so many other more talented and eloquent people have already said on RUclips, though there will inevitably be some overlap because I share traits with many other autistic people. I'm just presenting my version of autism in the hope that it connects with other autists and educates people who may have a stereotyped view of autism (like I did before I realised I'm autistic).
I have always been the kid calling out the Emperor, the head above the parapet. Even now I am experiencing the threat of real violence as a consequence. Normal people love a pecking order and God forbid you challenge it!
I’m sorry that you are experiencing this threat - that is not good at all. Please stay safe. Your comment made me smile: ‘Normal people love a pecking order and God forbid you challenge it!’ You are so right!
Yeah i for sure relate to seeing people as equals. I remember as a child feeling like our family should b a democracy instead of a dictatorship, which i felt it was with my dad in charge and nobody else having much say. And now i am a parent and i find it very confusing, i have to be in charge now, and i don't know how, i never have been in charge of anything before. I don't have much for leadership skills. I'm fine when I'm alone but to have to b a leader of others is very uncomfortable, so much pressure
I'm hopeless at being the boss! I tell my kids off extremely rarely. Mainly because they're lovely people but also because, as I said in the video, I can't stand conflict. I can't stand conflict so much that I will try, in other circumstances, to overcome my fear of conflict by standing up for what I think is right.
Beautifuly worded !!! Thank you!!!
To me authenticity and integrity feel like not even an option. Sometimes i wish i could want to to make my life easier… but then i remember im not even good at it anyways😂 It’s the ironie of my life : i’m utterly incapable to take the easy road and yet i complain to myself about how hard it is!😂
I love this: 'I’m utterly incapable to take the easy road and yet I complain to myself about how hard it is!' Me too! Integrity is doing the right thing when no one's looking. So, instead of doing the easy thing by dropping litter, I would rather carry it around until I find a bin, even if it means carrying the litter for miles. That's a terrible metaphor, but it hopefully makes the point!
Great video ! This, of course, is where U.S. Court systems most clash with Autistic people because their social heirarchies constitute Autism discrimination. I do a lot of research on evolution due to the evolutionary Autism genes, and your video make me wonder if the Harrapan civilization where everyone was seen as equal was an Autistic population.
Thank you. I hadn’t heard of the Harrapan civilisation. For me, rules have to make sense. I really struggle with the idea that laws and morality are different things. Laws are given a veneer of objectivity and fairness, whereas a little investigation reveals that they’re often tools to maintain inequality.
Very true neil 🙋♂️
Love this video & your deadpan delivery. I have a hard time respecting unearned authority too. I used to tell my classes they were all equally special individuals & they all responded well to being treated fairly & consistently. I didn't realise I was autistic while I was teaching, unfortunately! 💚
Thank you very much for your comments. I admire you for being a teacher - I’m a failed one! Isn’t it odd that we bring up children to treat people fairly and consistently, and yet adulthood is often a scary, capitalist maze in which ‘dog eat dog’ is deemed an acceptable attitude? Just pointing these things out is enough to rattle those who really benefit from hierarchies.
@@AutisticNotAlien Thank you! And exactly - children are so much easier to interact with than adults. They don't have all the preconceptions adults have formed & they're naturally aware of the concept of "fairness". BTW you're not a failed teacher if you're raising children - you (& their other parent) are their first & most important teacher 💚
@@lauraburystedmundsyoga8231 Yes, children also tend to be more honest and direct. (I appreciate that this can work in a bad way too - bullying, etc.) I guess I'm not a failed teacher if I'm raising two healthy & happy children, though their mum is actually a teacher and she deserves most of the credit!
Just started a new job and already got scolded by my boss about some minor stuff (using my phone for 0,5 minutes) that my boss interpreted as an act of disobedience, i guess. Thanks for the video, it cheered me up
I wonder if personal discipline could have helped here.
So glad that I cheered you up - thank you! I bet other colleagues use their phone and don't get scolded by your boss. And that's the point - in a neurotypical universe, moral consistency is often less important than who's in the gang.
Maybe the person was receiving an important message? Maybe it was a way to very briefly break up the tedium of a working day? Maybe it helped to regulate the person's mood? etc.
I have always loved the story about the emperors new clothes. It points out exactly what I have always found so wrong with society. Like, people who suddenly couldn't be friends with me anymore, just because society decided I was "too weird", even though we liked each other and enjoyed each other's company. They didn't want the shame of being my friend because apparently, it would put them lower in the hierarchy and ruin their future somehow. Later on I have felt that I had to do the same to others, but I have always regretted it, because my weirdest friends were always the most interesting to be around, the ones with whom I found it the easiest to connect. I have always watched the hierarchies from the outside, not knowing my place in it, but probably being put right down at the bottom most of the time by others, who didn't see me as valuable, just odd and irritating. Probably lost a lot of jobs and other opportunities because of it, or been seen as untrustworthy because my body language just isn't quite right. I've been fired and ostracized many, many, many times, without understanding why or getting a proper explanation, been completely puzzled by it, I didn't think I did anything wrong.
It's a great story, isn’t it? I have met so many ‘emperors’. I’m sorry you have lost jobs and opportunities through no fault of your own. Hierarchies are often a façade, and pointing that out is another reason to exclude us and make us feel like we’re the ones in the wrong. I just want everyone to get along and be appreciated. It enrages me that people get satisfaction from fake superiority and their cruel behaviour. We’re all human. Just be kind - it’s not difficult.
I understand hierarchies of ideas and it's the idea that interests me. It doesn't matter what the title is of the person who expressed the idea.
I think other autistic people think the same way. So in a sense I think autistic people understand hierarchies very well while most other people don't. Hierarcies based on old credentials doesn't impress me too much when someone else comes up with a better conclusion.
I agree with every single word of this - thank you. You've explained this so well.
I enjoyed....as usual. :) Congrats on all the new subs! It's exciting, isn't it?😁
Thank you, Jenny. Having subs is like being popular, isn't it?! Nowhere near Taylor Swift level though, which I'm happy about. 🙂
Thank you for your honesty and the time and effort you take to bring information to those whom are searching for it. Orion Kelly recommends you and I have chosen to subscribe to your channel. I hope you have an enjoyable day.
Thank you so much. Information, connection, and compassion (and some silly jokes) - that's what I'm here for! Have a great day too.
People want to be liked so frikken badly it's sickening to see
Yes, but I'm one of those people! However, I don't see sucking up to people in a chain of command as a proper way to win approval.
Good post! Sorry about the vegetable trauma, your Mum couldn't help that she overcooked them till they were mushy, she's British!
Ha ha! Can't beat a bit of mushy peas. I'm now daydreaming about fish 'n' chips and it's only 7:16am as I write this!
🫀thank you!
Wow ❤️❤️❤️
Hierarchy is so stupid!
It often is.
I’m glad you talked about John Clare and the enclosures. I’m currently reading Lark Rise to Candleford, an autobiographical account of rural life after the enclosures. It’s wonderful. I feel like it would be a good companion read to Capital. 😁
Yay, someone else who likes John Clare (and presumably doesn't like the enclosures)! Although I mentioned the legislation, enclosure really began in the days of William the Conqueror. There's a village a few miles from me which is named after one of his barons. Many extremely wealth people in the UK are descendants of William's barons. Land inequality is the root cause of so many modern problems. John Clare is a great way into all this history. Reading his poetry (and his prose) feels like an act of trespass because the reality of the brutality of enclosure is deliberately kept out of mainstream education.
@@AutisticNotAlienyou are right! Although I live in the states now I grew up in London and was educated there. Looking back I think the enclosures were de-emphasized to say the least!! As an adult I got interested in it especially from the perspective of women’s history but I also got super absorbed by the Diggers. I’d like to make a zine about them one of these days…
@@AutisticNotAlienPS, just ordered a used copy of The Shepherd’s Calendar - sounds right up my alley!
PPS lark rise is set around the 1880s so after centuries of enclosing lands and many many enclosure acts in the 1800s. I love it. (Obvs I don’t love that the lands were enclosed but I love the writing and the personal history 😅)
@@WitchPaper1 I would love to see the zine! No pressure though - I imagine it would be quite an effort to set one up. it would certainly be a good reason to, er, dig up some fascinating research!
Well said
Thank you!
love the name brother
Thank you!
I’m not convinced that most people want freedom. My experience of watching most people is that they want somebody with “more authority” to make it so they don’t have to try to figure out what they are supposed to do next. They want the illusion of freedom without needing to put any effort into it, and they will happily follow anybody who gives them that.
Oh yes, this is brilliantly put. Thinking is hard, and it's so depressing that so many people seem to prefer to outsource cognitive effort about the important stuff.
This is why fascism is on the rise again - we're facing extinction due to our actions & have to change, but some people are telling us they can fix things by getting rid of whoever they've scapegoated as the villains. Humans are failing badly at our Great Filter & likely won't survive.
I’d guess most people have an underlying desire for freedom, but it has been rung out of us by centuries of fear of destitution. The uprising in response to the enclosure acts, for one thing, would indicate to me that “not wanting freedom” isn’t the natural state of being for humans.
I’d guess most people have an underlying desire for freedom, but it has been rung out of us by centuries of fear of destitution. The uprising in response to the enclosure acts, for one thing, would indicate to me that “not wanting freedom” isn’t the natural state of being for humans.
Sorry if multiple duplicates from me. They keep disappearing 👻 I’d guess most people have an underlying desire for freedom, but it has been wrung out of us by centuries of fear of destitution. The uprisings in response to the enclosure acts, for one thing, would indicate to me that “not wanting freedom” isn’t the natural state of being for humans.
Great video!😁
Thank you very much, Robert.
Personal autonomy is paramount. I can't understand why anybody chooses to be without this.. and asking for clarification is not disrespecting authority... I don't recognize the authority already... the clarification questions are just to make both our lives easier.
Yes, absolutely right. If I'm asking questions, it's all about clarification and making sense. If someone is higher up the hierarchy and can't answer the questions, they could see it as an opportunity to learn for themselves instead of interpreting it as a threat to their position. I have no interest in climbing the ladder - I just want to know what I'm doing and to be safe.
Truth over normalcy
This, a million times. Thank you.
Agree 😊
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