I'm in "duck and run" mode most of the time and it takes up -vast- amounts of my energy.
That's the point, that's what this all comes down to; we are made to feel this way because the majority has decided our unease is acceptable for the sake of their benefit. This is why I call oppression a kind of cannibalism; we use some of our energy trying to avoid or appease rather than using it to gather more resources or defend ourselves in a straightforward way. The resources which would have been ours are consumed by others, and so we are being consumed, slowly and gradually.
How very useful that is, for those who hate us, to send waves of PTSD anxiety over us.
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Date: 2005-06-21 05:08 pm (UTC)That's the point, that's what this all comes down to; we are made to feel this way because the majority has decided our unease is acceptable for the sake of their benefit. This is why I call oppression a kind of cannibalism; we use some of our energy trying to avoid or appease rather than using it to gather more resources or defend ourselves in a straightforward way. The resources which would have been ours are consumed by others, and so we are being consumed, slowly and gradually.
How very useful that is, for those who hate us, to send waves of PTSD anxiety over us.
Indeed.