Reasons

07/14/22 • 26 min

The Leaves of a Victim never more with Steven Wilson

This episode I explore the educational paradigm of being known as a victim and how that translates to those around us; especially our family and how they treat us socially.
My group discussed how they are treated when they return to family gatherings and how they conduct themselves and how they are treated by family and friends that know they were victims of sex abuse as children.
This is something I know a great deal about as I wrote my dissertation on building an educational system or foundation.
I read from Neil Postman’s “The End of Education”. He is a great mind and inspiration.

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What’s wrong with now?

this episode is about Timing.
A time to heal, a time to live, a time to die. I have always believed that now is the best time to do something because now is all you have. Making plans to do something later on may make you seem civilized or adult, but it is completely illogical. No one is guaranteed tomorrow.
I begin this episode with a letter from the Marquis De Sade to his wife. In it he uses a simple analogy of a traveler on a road filled with traps. He speaks of blame; for the traveler or the one who set the traps?
I have always enjoyed that as a foundation stone for philosophical discussions pertaining to desire and the concept of guilt. It seems to get people to think about the basics of cause to effect.

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A life at sea

In this episode I deal with the metaphors and analogies pertaining to life, addiction, and abuse.
War.
The term gets used , perhaps too much, which makes it devalued language game. Often we say, “war on drugs”, “war on poverty”, “war on depression’.
I call for a war on safety...I call for a war on prevention as I believe one should embrace the chaos known as life. I am in the hurricane. I am in the dangerous grey of wind, and rain, and don’t fight the storm.
A life at sea is a wonderful thing. Danger as we know it is subjective. To commit a war on yourself is a sure fire way not to heal.