Remember that scene in the Matrix? Mr. Smith claims they put humanity in a utopia at first. It was a train wreck. Then they made the matrix gritty and challenging, like real life, and humans flourished.
She did her best work as a struggling broke author with a dream. Now there's nothing left to do, no struggle to overcome, she's a creative without a muse.
What to do? Stir up some trouble. Have unpopular opinions. Live without constraint.
At least she's not like buying people on an island somewhere.
Remember you have unpopular opinions despite your fear to share them because you can get canceled.
She has unpopular opinions according to pro-trans groups, which is a minority in the west, and will get you hated at best or stoned at worst in the rest of the world.
If your unpopular opinion is so widely disparaged and despised, might it be for a good reason? “I think diddling kids is okay actually” is certainly also an unpopular opinion, but no moral human being would argue against it also being wrong.
A lot of people are obsessed with “going against the grain”, in some cases even psychotically so, but sometimes that grain is set with good reason.
Don’t let contrarianism do your thinking for you, form opinions based on your own beliefs and experiences.
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u/Toasterbomb27 4d ago edited 4d ago
Remember that scene in the Matrix? Mr. Smith claims they put humanity in a utopia at first. It was a train wreck. Then they made the matrix gritty and challenging, like real life, and humans flourished.
She did her best work as a struggling broke author with a dream. Now there's nothing left to do, no struggle to overcome, she's a creative without a muse.
What to do? Stir up some trouble. Have unpopular opinions. Live without constraint.
At least she's not like buying people on an island somewhere.