Daeth9451

I am, now and perhaps forever, a staunch libertarian. I have to work with people, for my degree and for my pay.  I do not feel remotely comfortable enough to take the radical stand on my political views with them.  I've found a way to maintain what I consider an acceptable amount of integrity (contradiction in terms?), by boiling my views down to their most essential, incontrovertible roots, the things which are true a priori and which no reasonable person can dispute.  I keep the conclusions drawn from those foundations to myself. This has kept me somewhat intellectually honest.  I say somewhat, because I'm bereft of fucks to give.  But an

A short history, by way of introduction: as a teenager, I was massively depressed.  Hopeless, despairing, the whole nine yards.  I still feel that core of anger at the world (as depression is a form of anger, just defeated; Fred got that much right).  And then, like a miracle, I discovered The Secret of Letting Go, by Guy Finley.  TSOLG for short.  It was and is the most sensible, right thing for dealing with my issues that I have ever found.  I can think of no definitive reason why it should work where no others have, but it does, and though I take it for granted (often), I am deeply grateful for having it in my life, more than anything else

OMG CHEESE IS DELICIOUS!!! So, I had an idea: surrender as a means to control.  Not surrender in the role of perpetual victimhood, but rather conceding your control in a minority of cases, so that the subject will remain loyal at all other times, resulting in a net increase of control.  The prime example of this would be when a parent (I believe mothers do this as much as fathers, though there may be gender-favoritism (father->son, mother->daughter)) allows the child to have an occasional (though still kept rare) instance wherein the bonds of control are significantly loosened.  But this is not rebellion, as it is a cessation of control at t