Recently been reading some stuff about oppression.
Nutshell is that since Marx wrote about oppression, there has been an idea of oppression being breated by the upper class to keep the lower class powerless.
Don't think this is true.
Reality is wealthy people are also oppressed. Reality is that poor people can become oppressors. Reality is that oppression has nothin to do with wealth, or class. Everyone, everywhere are oppressed. Our oppression is becoming universal.
Someone is oppressed. They get pissed off about this, but rather than build a peaceful or beautiful resistence to this, they pass it on to someone else, and it becomes a cycle of oppression that gets fed around, and results in people ownin each other.
That's a real idea. That actually happens. I've never seen a class, but I've seen someone get hit and then go hit someone else, and I've seen a country go to war b/c they got a history of being persecuted.
I call it 'Political Transference'.
What we can do is build peaceful means by which people can connect with each other through their oppression and create a humanist moment. Through sharing our oppression, we can better understand our oppressors. This is a beautiful objective and a beautiful target, it is not a divisive one like what Marx is. It doesn't aim at revolution. It aims at love.
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