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diff --git a/microblog/index.html b/microblog/index.html index 4b0898b..2a8a139 100644 --- a/microblog/index.html +++ b/microblog/index.html @@ -19,6 +19,15 @@ </p> <hr /> --> + <p id="44"> + Sometimes I just need to understand that most people have different politics than I do, and that I'm not in this role to explain my politics and beliefs to them. + +I think this is particularly prominent in gender-related issues. I get really pissed without sufficient empathy taking into account of the fact that it is fine to stick to social norms as long as they don't try to actively disrupt others. + +Moving between extremes has been normality to me for quite a while and I'm tired of it. + <a href="https://runxiyu.org/microblog/#44">&</a> + </p> +<!-- <hr /> <p id="43"> 我好像已经习惯了把自己很痛苦的想法捂在心里，即使想说应该说出来的时候也很麻木……？ <a href="https://runxiyu.org/microblog/#43">&</a> @@ -28,7 +37,9 @@ I would like to take a moment to reflect on how I’m somehow prejudiced in the Israel–Hamas war.<br /> I grew up in an environment where I was taught about the acts of terrorism by the Islamic State, Al-Qaeda, and the Taliban, with terms such as “muslim suicide-bombers”. Even when consciously understanding the concept of religious freedom and personally being agnostic, I’ve, arguably subconsciously, sided with Israel.<br /> I haven’t really noticed this, until realizing my lack of reaction and internal dissent towards what was committed by Israel’s military. I strongly disagreed with arguments that justify Israel’s actions based on the Jewish experience in the Holocaust—the Holocaust was worse by three scales of magnitude, but it is irrelevant and does not justify bombing civilian targets. But there was something inside me that didn’t want to criticize Israel. Perhaps it was just because Hamas performed the first attack on October 7th? That, however, was based on stringent Israeli occupation and blockades for half a century… + <a href="https://runxiyu.org/microblog/#42">&</a> </p> + <hr /> <p id="41"> Rain doesn't wash anything away, it just soaks me with the sky's ashes. <a href="https://runxiyu.org/microblog/#41">&</a> @@ -161,12 +172,12 @@ On the other hand, tragedies do in general have a fatalist element consistent wi </p> <hr /> <p id="31"> - Perhaps what I hate or fear isn't the entity itself, but is rather my relationship with that entity. My concept of that entity is integrated into my "self", it's not distinctly an "other"...? + Pybeerhaps what I hate or fear isn't the entity itself, but is rather my relationship with that entity. My concept of that entity is integrated into my "self", it's not distinctly an "other"...? <a href="https://runxiyu.org/microblog/#31">&</a> </p> <hr /> <p id="30"> - Maybe it's being alive that makes them lie, and being almost not alive makes me sort of accidentally truthful...<br /> + it's being alive that makes them lie, and being almost not alive makes me sort of accidentally truthful...<br /> —Brick, Act 3, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams <a href="https://runxiyu.org/microblog/#30">&</a> </p> @@ -353,6 +364,7 @@ Looking back, reading opinions, journal entries and poems I wrote a while back, I hereby discard the structuralist view that people are composed of the opposing parts "benign" and "malicious". These simple and perhaps judgemental concepts are insufficient in face of the complexity of the human condition. <a href="https://runxiyu.org/microblog/#1">&</a> </p> +--> <div id="footer"> <hr /> <p><a href="/">Runxi Yu's Website</a></p> |