On the Importance of Mental Health | Clarissa's Blog
I sense a distinct separation developing between those who can actually think and those who can’t do so at all, with a huge gap inbetween. It’s too easy nowadays to find sugar treats for the mind and to enjoy superficial pleasures of complete certainty. I, for one, can no longer be bothered correcting, assisting or encouraging people to think more deeply, if they are inclined to think in this pattern. They can take the easy path and whatever that brings for them. To go deeper takes considerable pain and heartache, and these are all too underestimated by the glib morons who just like what they like. So let them hear the same thing over and over about how women just want to be mummies, that life as they know it can never be altered — whatever they like. Even if they want to believe I am the source of their problems, let them believe that too. There is no obligation on my part to play the role of educator, which is what they demand I try to do whilst maintaining their role as the wilfully ignorant. But really, let them be ignorant. The lie that the majority want to preach is that we are all in this together, but that is not nearly so much so as they would like me to believe. They can proclaim that the average Joe has every right to correct a female philosopher for her seeming intellectual paucity in their eyes, and I will clap them on the back. “Well done! You have made a pronouncement!”
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