logansrun:
Thread topics like "How to mess up the Society"...."What Dirty Tricks Would You Pull on the Watchtower" and "The Society is about to go down the tubes!" don't impress me. You?
Why do you feel that topics should impress you? I don't see any basis for that assumption. I certainly don't make posts to impress people; but perhaps your choice of words is obscuring your meaning?
Honesty and forthrightness. Deconstruction and understanding. I feel these are the qualities that will expose the undesireable elements in the Society as well as help people within and without it.
Yes. And? Whether you like it or not, this is a community of survivors, all different but united by a similarity of experienece. Whilst to you jokes and faceitous humour may not be appropriate, obviously to others they are either appropriate or possibly even needed; laughter is a natural human emotion, do we have to avoid all humour related to experience with the Collective (see, there's one) or our view of them now?
Is your disturbance perhaps due to the fact you are not used to a social group where diversity of opinion is allowed and indeed encouraged?
Of course, this is just my opinion. I could be wrong.
Likewise. And I don't have to feel bad if I am wrong; one of the dehumanising aspects of cultic experience is that being wrong is not allowed!
... the more sensational and "angry" the topic, the more we appear to be what the Society has depicted us as.
Yes, but do we really want to let the Society carry on controlling our behaviour even when we are no longer part of it?
To say 'they depict us as' and to act in response to that is to give credance to that depiction and its accuracy. Of course people are angry. Of course people laugh. Having been forced to live half-lives for sometime DECADES, are we going to ask them not to be angry with their abusers?
Unrealistic, in my opinion...
Truth need not hide nor wear fancy trousers.
