From what you've described, there's a lot of 'children' who subscribe utterly to the idea of 'dogma'....... and that's just fundamentalism - and we all know where that leads.
I've always hoped that the whole issue of 'identity' could be subsumed into a simple acceptance of just being human - while accepting that everyone has their own sub-identity within that - without making the individual identity categories such a stumbling block to aceptance.
We all have our own identities - we should be proud of them - but don't use them as a means to belittle and stratify others in realtion to yourself.
I hope that makes sense - and maybe I'm being too idealistic - but I've always tried to live by the principle of IDIC - and it still surprises me that other people can't grow up and realise that the simplicity of IDIC would change the world beyond recognition. It'll not happen until there's been another world war and we're knocked back almost to a pre-technological civilisation.
All hail St. Gene (Rodenberry, that is! The unsung genius the world never recognised!)
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Date: 2009-07-21 02:55 pm (UTC)I've always hoped that the whole issue of 'identity' could be subsumed into a simple acceptance of just being human - while accepting that everyone has their own sub-identity within that - without making the individual identity categories such a stumbling block to aceptance.
We all have our own identities - we should be proud of them - but don't use them as a means to belittle and stratify others in realtion to yourself.
I hope that makes sense - and maybe I'm being too idealistic - but I've always tried to live by the principle of IDIC - and it still surprises me that other people can't grow up and realise that the simplicity of IDIC would change the world beyond recognition. It'll not happen until there's been another world war and we're knocked back almost to a pre-technological civilisation.
All hail St. Gene (Rodenberry, that is! The unsung genius the world never recognised!)