Accepting psychological oppression is often a compromise made by the ego to avoid a sense of being completely annihilated. Sure, such a compromise position is a weak one and as such it is undesirable. I will give you an example. My father grows up to understand, believe or sense that his adopter father abhors him. This realization is so terrifying that my father develops an alternative explanation: his adopter father actually loves him very much, but is treating him in a harsh and rejecting manner “for his own good”. In that case, the harshness and rejection is just an expression of supreme love, which has a different surface appearance from what one might have anticipated. Consequently an expression of hatred is actually an expression of love.
This is an obvious lie when stated in this way, but my father told it to save his ego from shattering. The “reward” for accepting this oppression of fatherly hatred was the salvation of the ego in a more general sense.
This is just one level of oppression — a psychological one — where “consent” isn’t really a question of choice but of survival.
On a material and more practical level, there are many cases like this one.
STAY SANE AND SAVAGE Gender activism, intellectual shamanism
This is an obvious lie when stated in this way, but my father told it to save his ego from shattering. The “reward” for accepting this oppression of fatherly hatred was the salvation of the ego in a more general sense.
This is just one level of oppression — a psychological one — where “consent” isn’t really a question of choice but of survival.
On a material and more practical level, there are many cases like this one.
STAY SANE AND SAVAGE Gender activism, intellectual shamanism
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