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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

If there is any small consolation in living through a lame reboot of the Cultural Revolution, it's that (except for a handful of demented zealots) no one enjoys living under the Maoist dispensation.

There is no joy or beauty or freedom (those things are counter-revolutionary), there is only the eternal anxious vigilance of making sure you never blaspheme against sacred dogma and the constant terror of making sure you're not the one wearing the dunce cap and starring in tomorrow's Struggle Session.

I know a few people who work in Hollywood and they spend their lives genuflecting more than a priest touring the Vatican. Every day they must navigate the Scylla and Charibides of trying to placate the Marginalized and at the same time worrying that one wrong word will have them permanently banished back behind the velvet rope.

The sad eunuchs who craft our narratives may seem to live gilded lives, but they really live in gilded cages. And like courtiers to some of the more maniacal Roman emperors, they live every day knowing that while tonight they may be covered in jewels and eating at the Palace, tomorrow they easily could be the one offering their throats to the sword.

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Hollis Brown's avatar

let me get this straight...

privilege is bad and should be atoned for.

unless it’s OUR privilege, then it’s great and it’s rules must be enforced because, duh...

there are so many layers of irony and doublespeak in your piece U need a translator.

it becomes more and more obvious every day that Social Justice isn’t about justice...it’s about Power...

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