What's wrong with wish fulfillment?

[branchandroot]

You know your whole damn culture needs therapy when large numbers of people can be convinced that there is something evil and wrong about writing yourself being and getting absolutely everything you want in your wildest dreams. This is even more true when the evilness and wrongness is explicitly identified as the act of sharing, posting, making public, speaking aloud your wish-fulfillment, and being applauded for doing so.

The urge to police other people's pleasure should be recognized as the greatest moral perversion of all.

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Comments

[branchandroot]

*nods* I think it is a cycle. And, yeah, part of learning to relate to other people is figuring out what's a good time and what's a trustworthy person (and goodness knows I would not peg ff.net as either, myself!). I just find it deeply ironic that, in a space where we spend so much time congratulation ourselves on being subversive and gaining voice for ourselves and owning our desires, there's such a strong current that says "but /that's/ too much to want".

[ex_wicker969]

Now you've got me thinking about safe spaces. And you're absolutely right, though I'd call it hypocrisy. If we can't be safe here, in an environment that professes all these awesome values of subversive and empowering ourselves and self expression, where can we be?