... *sighs*
Mar. 26th, 2003 08:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
whitereflectionI resign from the world. I think I understand why some yearn to become hermits, to end all contact with the rest of humanity. I wish there was some way I could hide out somewhere, and only interact with those very, very few people I consider myself close to--and where I would never hear anything about anyone else in the rest of the world, ever again. And where I could live my life and think my thoughts without anyone else trying to control me or denigrate me for doing so. The United States of Bah, Leave Me The Hell Alone.
On an ever so vaguely related note, it's really eating at me how I really tend to feel that everyone should have a chance to express their opinions and beliefs, no matter what you think about the topic, whether it offends you or not--while on the other side, those that tend to have differing opions than I just freak the hell out that I (and those like me) don't agree. They mock those that don't agree, vilify and hate them, and practically threaten violence for that disagreement--anywhere from demanding that anyone who thinks differently just shut up, to threatening reprisals/severe consequences/harm for believing differently and saying so. Why do some people have such fear and hate that not everyone feels like they do? Why can I hear differing opinions and not be threatened by it, but others react with verbal/physical violence if you don't think as they do?
I really, very much wish I could go to somewhere like New Zealand or Canada. There are so many places I don't fit in here, anymore--so many people that I am disgusted with/ashamed of, and wish I didn't have to associate with.
On an ever so vaguely related note, it's really eating at me how I really tend to feel that everyone should have a chance to express their opinions and beliefs, no matter what you think about the topic, whether it offends you or not--while on the other side, those that tend to have differing opions than I just freak the hell out that I (and those like me) don't agree. They mock those that don't agree, vilify and hate them, and practically threaten violence for that disagreement--anywhere from demanding that anyone who thinks differently just shut up, to threatening reprisals/severe consequences/harm for believing differently and saying so. Why do some people have such fear and hate that not everyone feels like they do? Why can I hear differing opinions and not be threatened by it, but others react with verbal/physical violence if you don't think as they do?
I really, very much wish I could go to somewhere like New Zealand or Canada. There are so many places I don't fit in here, anymore--so many people that I am disgusted with/ashamed of, and wish I didn't have to associate with.
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Date: 2003-03-28 08:46 am (UTC)*ponders* Lord knows, if I ever ever do actually do something like this, it'd probably be Victoria or Vancouver. It's enough like Seattle to make me feel at homish (not that I've lived there, but it's the US place I like best and wish I could move to most). Ah, you know me--always daydreaming about this sort of thing.
BTW--thanks for that heads up about them finally considering putting up the Jar archives. I am *SO* there when they do. I really hope they follow through on it--man, I'll have to save every image on the off-chance it disappears again someday.
--Di