The irony of today's social and political climate is that so many individual voices, in our so-called democracy, are insisting that their voices be heard and their status as self-defining individuals recognized for the sake of social harmony. In other words, we have individuals—call them activists—who feel within themselves that they will not rest until the group which they represent, even if it's a group of one, is acknowledged by the current social order—even if that means upending the current social order entirely. In part this is an unfair description of an activist. In part this is a consequence of many self-proclaimed activists, whose voice is so loud they are shaping the conversation, also existing within an elitist milieu, where self-assertion and a careerist mindset and agenda are a part of their conception of activism. In this episode we go deep into what is described as a 'perennial psychological drama', and we address it with a helping hand from Schopenhauer.

 

 

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