In Life, creativity and diversity are baseline.
Despite strong attempts by the dominant culture to homogenise human expression, the drive to create and diversify oneself persists.
One common way creativity expresses itself through humans is in how we cause or experience harm. It’s impressive how we constantly come up with novel ideas to quench the thirst for blood and suffering the dominant culture has.
However, upon close inspection, the degree of creativity in these expressions is somewhat shallow as there’s not a significant difference between them.
One way to gain awareness in that regard is to go beyond our experiences and assess the experiences, good and bad, of many others and, in particular, of those of people we perceive as very different from ourselves.
After a while of doing this analysis, the uniqueness of our negative experiences dissolves because we can swiftly trail them back to a muddled pit of similar tales held together by the same pedestrian drive to engage in abuse dynamics.
This impulse is, to put it plainly, “I am afraid to die = I am afraid to be alive”, and it’s strongly fostered by the dominant culture.
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