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My request was for the Cappy to read & respond my previous post Two Empowerments.
In his analysis, the Cappy added a very important idea: "permission". People want an authority or parental figure to approve of their actions. The Great One at the Cynical Lib Society pointed out that marijuana legalization advocates are still seeking permission from the gov't. The naked mountain climber seeked validation of their view point. The Marchers got the approval of the media and the leftists that the media wanted to amplify.
Far from being a freeing and self-actualizing experience, pop-empowerment falls back on the instinct of monkey see by seeking validation & permission from others. Copying the activity of other monkeys was useful in surviving the primordial forests & savannahs of yore. However, independent thought & sanity are all the more important when bad ideas are easily cloaked in colorful, candy shells:
* Follow your passion & the money will follow
* YOLO
* It's for the children...
* Just a dollar a day to cause X, will...
How do you know they are bad? Just look around you & see where this conformist, conventional thinking has gotten us.
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