People who don’t want to view themselves as victims generally aren’t. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:
the intersection of education, AI, and society to come
this seems like a simple joke, but is it?
you’re meant to think of it as “me” being oblivious, but what if instead it’s the therapist that’s being sinister and taking that which is normal, human, and often funny and making it out to be trauma, injecting supposed “suffering” where none need or ought really reside?
those who get to define “normal” or “trauma” possess a great deal of epistemilogical power and, possessed of ill intent, one can use it pathologize normalcy. this is both a form of social control and a coveted means for abnormal people to lash out and to claim “you’re a mess too!”
the trauma theater kids don’t like the regular kids. never did. they want “being well-adjusted” to get called “being sick” so that everyone must inhabit the same unsound and leaky boat. this has always been so. the only thing that changed is that the people who were supposed to know better lost their way and began to bend institutions and education and even information into pretzels in service of these “broken ones” as though they were somehow the chief customers of the system and the values and behaviors around which it must organize itself.
the broken became the normal, the breakage was mistaken for status and bravery, and the idea that it could be otherwise was lost somewhere.
these are the signs of a very sick society, the nightmare fuel of dystopian sci-fi authors from the 1930s and 1950s back when a clear view of such threats still seemed part of public consciousness. many of these books, the bradbury, the huxley, the orwell, were controversial at the time, even forbidden. today, their warnings seem both forboding and foreshadowing.
