I'm out of touch with what's going on in the world, I freely admit that. But I suspect there is more to this than the simplistic way it is presented. I know there are people who want to ban everything that is even slightly offensive to anybody, but I also think it probable that some members of this "Cancel Culture" have legitimate points. Grouping them all together and dismissing them out of hand as over sensitive nuisances might result in the continuation of some social injustices that really need to be addressed.
But that doesn't make it alright. It's no good my just admitting it and then carrying on as usual. I need to learn my lesson and start behaving responsibly. I'm not going to put up with it any longer, something needs to be done about it now!
Just to clarify: "Cancel Culture" is what opponents of the phenomenon call it, I don't imagine that the participants in it use that term. It is the people who use the term that I was suggesting are over reacting.
Thank you, and if it's any consolation, I didn't enjoy it. I know its against your principles, but I would urge you to allow yourself a few, or even many, negative thoughts about me.
I was asking a question in response to something that puzzled me, and although I wasn't expecting a satisfactory answer, I was willing to accept one, should one have materialised.
Yes, leave me to it. You have managed to get your message across, as you managed to get it across yesterday, so your work is done.
You talk in generalities, as if the truth of them is self evident, and needs no explanation. Things like "sending love out into the universe", and "self is just an illusion". It's just a stream of mantras with nothing to substantiate them. I mean, just pick out one of these ideas and make a rational case for accepting it as some kind of truth.
I wasn't proposing an argument as an initial starting point, I was asking a question. It was only after I had received an answer to the question that I proposed to start arguing.
As for a definition of love, I was putting the onus of providing that on those who keep telling me to throw some out into the Universe.
Can you elucidate on that in such a way as to dispel any suspicions that you are just uttering meaningless garble? Sorry to put it like that, it just came out that way on its own.
This continuous reference to negative and positive is undermining you. It is purely ego centric. You are judging everything from your own objective point of view. What is negative to you, is neutral to the universe.
I still can't get used to "Circlip", and how ridiculous it sounds. If I'd known I was going to be here for this long I would have put more thought into choosing a name.
Most of us have sympathy for those suffering real distress, and would help if we could. In principle, if not actually. But that isn't loving them. On a broader level, when it comes to people in general; the ones we see when we are doing our shopping, why and how are we supposed to love them?
If they go round annoying people in the real world then they should expect no less. I am only prepared to expose myself to metaphorical kicks in the goolies. I'm not stupid enough to be this big a nob head within physical reach of anybody.
That's a shame, because I had started to see you as a kindred spirit. Spirit in a metaphorical sense, of course; I don't have anything to do with literal spirits.
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RE: What is Cancel Culture?
I'm out of touch with what's going on in the world, I freely admit that. But I suspect there is more to this than the simplistic way it is presented. I know there are people who want to ban everything that is even slightly offensive to anybody, but I also think it probable that some members of this "Cancel Culture" have legitimate points. Grouping them all together and dismissing them out of hand as over sensitive nuisances might result in the continuation of some social injustices that really need to be addressed.