holosophy

1. Political correctness doesn’t check for motives or attempt to raise awareness, rather it tends to increase polarisation, alienation, resentment and rebellion
2. Advertising has to covertly appeal to our weaknesses whilst letting us believe they are strengths, whereas things like therapy imply “not good enough” and therefore reinforce insecurities, and switch us into instant rejection mode. Ads bypass this by going straight to value added.
3. There is often a hidden agenda in therapy, and this leads to hypocrisy if it goes unrecognized and unattended.
4. Awareness is the key, then Will ( I Will)
5. We know, of our children that they will grow up and go their own way, take their partners and love them, have their own children and love them, and that they can still be capable of loving us. That love between parent and child is unconditional - ideally.
6. Sex is often little more than instant gratification (for a man) and a way of staking a claim (for a woman). When it does amount to more it’s usually just a power game.
7. Confession is a way of owning up - i.e. of owning. In that owning we may need forgiveness, and if we do it can only come from ourselves - albeit that we may well take our signal from the injured party.
8. We learn to not like ourselves, it is not a state we are naturally born into.
9. Multiple messages of frailty throughout childhood build into our fear of non-survival.
10. The meaning of any communication is the way it’s received, this has to be so otherwise why are we bothering to attempt communication at all (i.e. we’re not - we just like the sound of our own voice)
11. Self-responsibility is something we seldom take kindly to, even if we are prepared to take professional responsibility etc.
12. Play is entirely natural and extremely important to us as children, until we learn that we have to break off for tea when we aren’t hungry (and often don’t want what’s on offer anyway) - all because we’re only playing and when the foods on the table that’s much more important. Indeed any adult playing with us is usually only too pleased to have an excuse to break off, furthering the impression that almost everything else is more important. Plus which all the things we most enjoy doing are too noisy, or are getting on Aunt Fanny’s nerves (I never could figure out how I was getting on her nerves when I was nowhere near her - just exactly where did she keep these nerves - and how could I be expected to stay off of them when I couldn’t even see the damn things) or it’s simply naughty for some obscure and unspecified reason that nobody can quite explain - but its definitely naughty!

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