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Apr. 15th, 2007 08:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I haven't posted in a while. Why? Because all the posts I see coming in the near future are astonishingly unpleasant, and some may cost me friends.
For instance, the several conservative friends I have been acquiring may have a problem with my view of current politics and the criticism I feel coming of America and Americans - not liberals, that's shooting fish in a barrel, but conservatives. I have to post about the Catholic teaching about homosexuality, which I really dread. I cannot post about my country without a remark about its politics, which are humiliatingly bad. The only consolation being that Britain is even worse. The Blair government has hit rock bottom, its basic and ruinous emptiness is there for everyone to see, it has managed to worsen everything in Britain that it meant to improve, and yet there is no visible alternative. There are a couple of historical posts which would probably hurt or annoy two of the finest people on my f-list; and as if that wasn't enough, my ongoing fic A crime to outlive him is reaching a climax I simply do not want to write. How does someone get to a point where everything he might have to say is sure to hurt, anger or embarrass someone?
For instance, the several conservative friends I have been acquiring may have a problem with my view of current politics and the criticism I feel coming of America and Americans - not liberals, that's shooting fish in a barrel, but conservatives. I have to post about the Catholic teaching about homosexuality, which I really dread. I cannot post about my country without a remark about its politics, which are humiliatingly bad. The only consolation being that Britain is even worse. The Blair government has hit rock bottom, its basic and ruinous emptiness is there for everyone to see, it has managed to worsen everything in Britain that it meant to improve, and yet there is no visible alternative. There are a couple of historical posts which would probably hurt or annoy two of the finest people on my f-list; and as if that wasn't enough, my ongoing fic A crime to outlive him is reaching a climax I simply do not want to write. How does someone get to a point where everything he might have to say is sure to hurt, anger or embarrass someone?
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Date: 2007-04-16 05:35 pm (UTC)If I were to give any advice it would be not to get offended when you find you have offended someone; but that's just me.
As for shots at America, as an American, I always feel offended when someone else(as in someone not a citizen of the US) says something about America, even if it's true and I say it myself! This is just patriotism, and everyone should have it, but patriotism shouldn't prevent people from hearing and seeing the truth or different views and opinions, or thinking for that matter, which I'm afraid is what happens sometimes, all over the world.