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One of those sleepless nights and sadness-filled mornings
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<blockquote data-quote="nlj" data-source="post: 641191" data-attributes="member: 17650"><p>I'm not sure how to respond to your post Lil. I see most of the group's anger and frustration as being the anger and frustration of youth. They've rejected a conformist way of life that perpetuates the injustices that they percieve in society. I can relate to a lot of their views. The trouble is that they have idealistic, unrealistic views of how society should be. Terrorism I see as being driven by religious zealotry. They certainly wouldn't be capable of anything like that. Activism has traditionally been the domain of disillusioned, displaced youth. Positive activism can bring about positive change. </p><p></p><p></p><p>These are my thoughts too. I spoke these thoughts, or similar, to my son. Opting out and sitting in a treehouse feeling angry isn't doing anything positive. In order to improve injustice in society you have to do it from the <em>inside, </em>not the outside. I hope he will grow up and see this for himself and find a way to live in a way that sits cleanly with his conscience but that brings him back into society to do something worthwhile. He sees everything through a red mist at the moment. He knows that anger and aggression will not solve anything. He just can't see past this. This contributes to his depressive episodes. He can't see past his view of the world as a dystopian cesspit of corruption, unfairness and suffering. Living as he does, he has become even more removed from reality. This worries me a lot. They are trying to create a utopia, but they are living on a cold, muddy derelict farm, which certainly isn't my image of utopia. I just have to ride with it and hope that he will come back some day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nlj, post: 641191, member: 17650"] I'm not sure how to respond to your post Lil. I see most of the group's anger and frustration as being the anger and frustration of youth. They've rejected a conformist way of life that perpetuates the injustices that they percieve in society. I can relate to a lot of their views. The trouble is that they have idealistic, unrealistic views of how society should be. Terrorism I see as being driven by religious zealotry. They certainly wouldn't be capable of anything like that. Activism has traditionally been the domain of disillusioned, displaced youth. Positive activism can bring about positive change. These are my thoughts too. I spoke these thoughts, or similar, to my son. Opting out and sitting in a treehouse feeling angry isn't doing anything positive. In order to improve injustice in society you have to do it from the [I]inside, [/I]not the outside. I hope he will grow up and see this for himself and find a way to live in a way that sits cleanly with his conscience but that brings him back into society to do something worthwhile. He sees everything through a red mist at the moment. He knows that anger and aggression will not solve anything. He just can't see past this. This contributes to his depressive episodes. He can't see past his view of the world as a dystopian cesspit of corruption, unfairness and suffering. Living as he does, he has become even more removed from reality. This worries me a lot. They are trying to create a utopia, but they are living on a cold, muddy derelict farm, which certainly isn't my image of utopia. I just have to ride with it and hope that he will come back some day. [/QUOTE]
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