Great reading, Janice, and thank you for it. Unhappiness is politically useful and happiness is not. What is woke existence without grievance? We must all be awake to their conditions, and what sods we are not to have noticed them on our own! Sad to say, I know some gay men who take the same view. Grievance builds community and establishes need. Grievance is a demand for concession, consideration, special terms. I am reminded of babies whose cries bring social events to a halt. The baby must be comforted. Only then can other things continue. Likewise the aggrieved. They are very unlikely to abandon their most effective means of social control.
Great reading, Janice, and thank you for it. Unhappiness is politically useful and happiness is not. What is woke existence without grievance? We must all be awake to their conditions, and what sods we are not to have noticed them on our own! Sad to say, I know some gay men who take the same view. Grievance builds community and establishes need. Grievance is a demand for concession, consideration, special terms. I am reminded of babies whose cries bring social events to a halt. The baby must be comforted. Only then can other things continue. Likewise the aggrieved. They are very unlikely to abandon their most effective means of social control.
Well put!
Have you read The Moon and Sixpence?