fearless amy in red in my case, it might be desperate or foolish. but mostly, it all boils down to not having kids and the uncertainties that that raises. fearless? yes. the world didn't give me much to protect in any consistent way. it's almost just my default. immature ? yes. i'm confident i would be differently more mature if i'd had a nonparental stable relationship at some point. but, there are trade-offs. it's like one person against the world is more doable than two people against the world because the two are not joined at the hip and one will go off and have their friends or "friends" question their two-people-against-world gig and then that destroys it. fearless i'd say no. some kind of societal structural license. you can speak your mind, but there won't be THAT many fish in the pond that are interesting and ready for you. i believe this and actively think it is true (base decisions or nonactions on it) and that fuels a fantasy life. is it all very unfortunate? yes, in a way. i see Jung's point about the individual and its implications. i fail to see where good society (in which we all must account) fits into things when there are active forces that malign the life of the individual. but, i also think we lost that battle and the world is heading for a place where poorer people get richer and it'll take awhile to settle into a vibrant, nonjudgmental society and culture once again. the numbers said we had to lose that battle. no man is a culture of his own. there is not a kinglike entity that does not bite his own tail for all the worst reasons. right? sucks to be the king (not good to be the king!) you don't want to appropriate cultures, but you do want to communicate so really you do want to appropriate cultures. it might help all thoughts of long-run justice to keep their languages intact, though. and you'll encounter fear because the fearless haven't found the words, at first, but they do once they know what's going on. actually they are the perfect liaison but they are burdened by the history of their culture's bad news. like if you found a German who knows pretty well, and deeply, why the Nazis came to power, you wouldn't be regaled with the most feel-good story you ever heard, but you'd know the people in question much better, and their sorrows which really do drive much their culture. (i started a blog i should put this in some sort of acceptable blog form. *puts string on finger*) 151025 ... amy in red realpolitik vs One World etc etc etc 151025 what's it to you? who go blather from