RE: Emotional expression and the violence inherent in the system
I love this essay/post/article. Its really good. The photo you put at the end says it PERFECTLY. I am a trained therapist in my non steemit life, and so agree with you that the lack of experience expressing, processing, and responding to emotion is a huge problem in our culture. and in many cultures. I haven't yet experienced that at Steemit to be honest. I have actually been able to be more vulnerable and open here than i have in a very long time. I believe you though. I am still very new and I havent tried EVERY kind of expression yet. For example I find this article to be quite brave, so that right there says something about what I expect to find here. Very interesting and thought provoking. I appreciate your comments about how the culture here is just capitalism and stuff too. It is important to think about these things if we really do ever want to change things.
ty for your response! so few people actually got this piece, which depresses me. part of why we write is a form of art and expression; so that people will read, and react, and think about what is being said. i feel another reason why schools no longer want to fund art isn't because its superfluous, but because studying and considering the message is often times contrary to the purpose of government or state sponsored "education" - creating compliant, easily manipulated, emotion driven citizens that are too busy to think critically about what they are fed. art challenges convention and assumption, gives us an alternate viewpoint in contrast to mainstream. the existence of "fake news" is in effect the dual nature of the corporate mainstream fighting each other for dominance - like two or three rival mafia gangs - while we look on in fear. what do we do when the people who protect us are the people who oppress us?
YES. In that vein, read this persons post and tell me what you think about what he says about longform reading and how it enhances your experiences in life. I am wondering if Facebook and Twitter and everything being so fast fast fast is also another thing that is causing our brains to have limited processing and comprehension practice. He is talking about how the reading deepens your perspective but I commented on his post just now that I really wonder if its also the practice of longform THOUGHT that helps us be able to connect better with each other. Which, thats what any good art is as well.. art, reading, emotion... these things have been weeded out. I think part of the revolution places like steemit could pontentially bring is to upset that trend, and push people back into longform thinking and being able to actually GRASP what diversity means. And being able to think critically about how those old habits play out unconciously in a new space is pretty important , its a good thought-trail to go on, i think.
I am thinking about making a post on this, but still kind of mentally processing my ideas about it...
https://steemit.com/life/@himshweta/21-ways-to-change-your-life-through-steem-it-part-2
also dont get depressed about the responses not matching your hopes or expectations! Just keep going forward in your exploration. I think its valuable, and others will too. Like everything you maybe havent run fully into your "crowd" on this topic yet, and that doesnt mean its not an accepted or valid topic.
hmm. himshweta is a woman, and while i enjoy some of her perspectives, a lot is over-simplified generalizations created for mass appeal. i'm not trying to denigrate, just it all sounds too magaziney. i do think you have something tho. 200 years ago we had no technology but the lack of conversation, and more knowledge of various disciplines because people had time to learn french or dueling and dancing, they wrote long letters and discussed things in depth. we are losing that ability because everything is reduced to tweets and bytes. emotions are reduced to emoticons and gifs and so removed from the actual event that we no longer can express emotion without a graphic representation of it. i think the way to diversity is to send people on walkabout like the ozzies do. after high school spend two years traveling and working in another country. humanitarian projects, farm work, just get out of where you are comfortable and see how the rest of the world lives. i also think spending a year abroad in jr high is a good idea for most people
Thanks for correcting me on her gender. I saw that later when i returned to her post .. i think the “him” in her name went into my unconscious and I hadn’t investigated her blog yet. As for the magaziny feel yeah i get you. Hmm but we are in agreement about the long form thought playing a part in the current culturefuck. I want to write about this but yeah i dont want to be trite about it. So i am going to let it percolate. I wish i was still a student so i could get my hands on some academic databases just to see whats already been written or studied about this social phenomenon and the impact on the brain and the expression of emotion, executive functioning, language processing, cognition, etc.