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I have so much sympathy for so many views on Twitter and elsewhere. What am I to do? I find it all fascinating. People tell me to take a stand. But I have. No to polarisation, & taking sides in the anti-intellectualism playing out; I'm not with stupid.
When I speak about resisting 'ideological capture', I mean 'capture', not 'ideology'. Ideologues are all over the place & many. Capture is when a specific ideological vision of the world captures all your attention & you can no longer think or feel for yourself.
I have been highly resistant to group capture and absorption into group identities since I was very young. I was socially awkward for this reason for a while. This does not mean I believe I've no part to play in group identities; they are many, fluid and intersecting at times.
On this front, the notion of intersectionality could be deemed a common sense observation. It's actually a good way to move away from true-self, essential me, the real me, soul searching. I/We are many things. The world is in us.
Intersections are endless. There is a world of them to explore in the practising life. There is room for many practices.
What's not so healthy, in my view, is to insist that others absorb your world view, interpret the world through your ideology's lenses, think as you do, be absorbed into your group's form of capture.
The world is vast & there is much to see.
The world is vast & there is much to see.
Varieties of discrimination, pain, suffering, practice, good causes, justices, injustices are many.
I take a stand on the side of human agency & the right of the individual to exist apart from your or my ideologies.
I take a stand on the side of human agency & the right of the individual to exist apart from your or my ideologies.
This is a practice. It is rooted in immanence, not a transcendent desire to rise above it all; whatever that might mean.
