Guess who sent me this post? Mrs. Pinky! Be sure to thank her!
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It hit me like a ton of bricks. Today is truly no different than yesterday. No generation less guilty or guiltier than the rest.
People are just not hiding anymore. There are no more masks, closets or dirty laundry. They are letting it all hang out. And! Not only do they expect others to accept whatever crazy falls out or is on display, they want it celebrated, appreciated and even endeared. Our problem is the sham of transparency.
We all have flaws and things we aren’t proud of we’d rather others not know. Evil, war and strife is nothing new to the human condition. Slavery, rape, and murder have been with us since humans have been in existence. So what gives us pause?
It is the lack of a filter.
We might cover our blemishes in makeup and Photoshop, our stretchmarks, but the worse parts of humanity are all full frontal in all of its nasty rugged glory.
But, with this “openness” comes the knife. The cat, so to speak, is out of the bag. People can no longer unring the bell, back track, or erase what we’ve seen.
People want to be completely naked but tell others not to look. They want to open their Skeleton closet but say, “Don’t judge me”. But if you want to be this revealing, why expose yourself at all? Who are you lying too? Are you pretending to hide or pretending to be open?
This need to feel accepted to me makes me think that people know deep down inside somewhere that maybe they know something is wrong with what they do. If what they do was “right”, why seek approval? Why do you need others to respect or validate you?
Oh, you say that you’re not asking for that. Why the need for conformity? Why the speech censorship and words hurting your feelings? What Is so painful you need safe spaces? Why have the once heroes lost the courage to stand up and fight? Because.
Shining light on the darkness makes those things that are evil, “wrong”, “decadent” scatter. Real “wrong” doesn’t want light. It loves the secrecy of the dark. The mischievousness of being hidden the power of the unknown.
People not only want to do what they want to do but to be told it is alright that they want this. But, didn’t we teach our children this was wrong at an early age? And didn’t those adults who never learned this at all get hit by the ones who do know with, “Life isn’t all about what YOU want”?
Yes, there’s an area that feeds off of lying to people about being able to get what you want and it ain’t just the capitalist business world that people have the freedom to ignore.
Yup, our government. Our “representatives” and “voters” created millions of adult toddlers crying about not getting what they want who run around in their version of nakedness. Old and maturing people crying and throwing tantrum because their self-interests aren’t being catered to at every whim regardless of how much they expose what we don’t want to see.
The sham of transparency is that it gives these irresponsible adults the idea that nakedness is freeing. It’s a sham. A scam. You are being hoodwinked.
Instead it is just giving out too much information about strangers that no one else should be privy to, needs or even asked for. The sham about today’s noisy, gossiping and “opened” society is that it is all a freaking lie.
