Someguy
03-14-2008, 03:03 AM
I've made this quite clear, I have a facial paralysis. If I obsess on this, it's only because people obsessed on 'it' all through out my childhood and early adulthood.
That would indicate to me there is a control freak mentality out there to conquer, control and lord over each other.........well, how do explain racism, or sexism or any other of the 'isms' that are out there? Isn't that at its core bullying?
It's over a hundred years later and the Hawaiians still feel oppressed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx3_lNiOj2c
Because they feel they were deemed as inferior...and they were.
We talk about initiation rights as if it gives us the right to abuse?
When I was growing up, I would hear stories from my siblings about how a neighborhood son was terrified of his father because his father would kick him in his nutz, literally, if he was late for his curfew. I was also told other punishments was locking his son in the car in the middle of day under the hot sun.........later on, I was told this son, as a teenager, took his father's car and totalled it out of shear spite.
I grew up during the 1970's. To a certain extent that alone should explain a lot of that behavior.
I find that as the 'communication' era starts to emerge it becomes less and less likely to abuse because people are becoming more aware......we're not as insular as we once were. We're becoming less complacent.
That would indicate to me there is a control freak mentality out there to conquer, control and lord over each other.........well, how do explain racism, or sexism or any other of the 'isms' that are out there? Isn't that at its core bullying?
It's over a hundred years later and the Hawaiians still feel oppressed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx3_lNiOj2c
Because they feel they were deemed as inferior...and they were.
We talk about initiation rights as if it gives us the right to abuse?
When I was growing up, I would hear stories from my siblings about how a neighborhood son was terrified of his father because his father would kick him in his nutz, literally, if he was late for his curfew. I was also told other punishments was locking his son in the car in the middle of day under the hot sun.........later on, I was told this son, as a teenager, took his father's car and totalled it out of shear spite.
I grew up during the 1970's. To a certain extent that alone should explain a lot of that behavior.
I find that as the 'communication' era starts to emerge it becomes less and less likely to abuse because people are becoming more aware......we're not as insular as we once were. We're becoming less complacent.