What’s wrong with now?

07/04/22 • 25 min

The Leaves of a Victim never more with Steven Wilson

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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Where did I go?

This episode is based on the coping skill called repression.
I do not rebirth Freud , but rather I delve into how I used it to survive the traumatic events of my past and the sex abuse I suffered in the 7th grade.
My coping skills revolve around hedonism; sex drugs and debauchery. All are considered to be unhealthy life choices. All are considered to be dangerous to the self. But these things help me now as they did back then as I am not any better at coping with my past.

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Reasons

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.