[krisoft]

The article says this: “Taking an active stance on political issues is just a small part of the obligations we acquire as humans, citizens, parents, employees, residents of some apartment block, and so on. And our free time… They might as well outlaw it.”

This sounds like the core complaint in the article and it leaves me utterly perplexed. Most people live their entire lives, without ever having what i would call an active stance on any political issue. Even the very few who are politicaly active (go to protests, organise) do it only occasionally. Most of their time they are doing other things (working, eating, sleeping, hanging out with friends, reading, whatever). And then there are very few who do activism or politics professionally and full time. This is not the norm but the exception.

So then why does the author think that they are obliged by society to take an “active stance on political issues”? Where is this notion comming from?

Maybe they have parents or a friend group who are politically very active and they live in a distorted bubble where they are made to feel not worthy if they don’t care that much? Or maybe their personal definition of “active stance on political issue” has a very low bar?

[krisoft]

And then they go into details. (Just pepered here and there among the philosophical mussings.)

“there are people who do intervene with every aspect of our life, including our taste of music, or modes of transportations.”

And provides concrete examples of their desires “I like to listen to death metal, while riding a brakeless bike”.

Who cares about your taste of music? If others don’t like what you are listening get some headphones? Hang out with people who like what you are listening?

And about the modes of transportation… people care that you don’t kill or injure them while you transport yourself. They also know that if you injure yourself you will whine and make a nuisance of yourself until people help you. So that is the two reason why people care about your “modes of transportations”. If you won’t injure anyone else, and we won’t have to deal with your maimed body knock yourself out. Fly your brakeless bike wherever you want to. Attach even JATO rockets to it if you want.

It really feels like someone told this person once that they should turn down the volume on their music, and they should maintain their bike, and they are trying to build a whole moral philosophy around this experience.

[lazide]

Anyone in a FAANG, anywhere near a Trumper in their family, or anywhere near an Anti-Trumper has been subjected to the ‘if you’re not with me, you’re against me’ on numerous political topics over and over again.

To the point that a great many people have had to drop numerous friends and family just to maintain their sanity.

I’m honestly not sure where the ‘that totally isn’t happening’ stance you’re taking comes from. Are you uniquely shielded? Or just oblivious?