It’s been said to me that learning to live again isn’t easy because it takes an act of defiance, a decision to face one’s fears. By comparison, cowardice is easy and requires almost no effort, save for repeating the same lies until you believe them wholeheartedly. The lying to yourself is a vital because almost no one wants to admit to being a coward, especially to his/herself. So instead, fearfulness gets disguised as a virtuous act of bravery and the world has seen a lot of that in the past 2 years.

My childhood was filled with abuse perpetrated by many but mostly by my grade school teachers, government goons (aka. Law Enforcement) and even the medical system. Needless to say, that I have a lot of emotional baggage and know first hand, what learning to live again entails. First they punished me for my own good and later they punished me for the good of others. To this day, other than being born, I don’t know what my crimes were. What kind of crimes can any child between that of a newborn to adolescence commit? A soft spoke polite child that wasn’t violent or stole anything from anyone? But like millions, perhaps billions, of other children I was convicted without a trial or proof of any wrong doing.

There are monsters who disguise themselves as humans

Since 2019, we have all been battered by the media and government(s) with a non-stop fear mongering message of death. They told us that it’s brave to hide in our homes and that it’s virtuous to hate anyone who questions their authority. This is why we must start learning to live again, because since 2019, we’ve been waiting for death. Unfortunately the war we are caught up in is incomparable to anything in our known history, neither like Nazi Germany, nor the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Our enemy is now our neighbors, friends and even family members. Everyone who fails to conform 100% to the new normal, we are told, is a murderous saboteur against all that is good. – But this outcry for public safety is truly nothing more than the offspring of a political lust for power and corporate greed that isn’t satisfied by the $1000 made ever single second.

Fortunately, just as the darkest night has its dawn and every war must eventually end. The things that went bump in the night are never as scary as we let ourselves believe. When the sun rises, we can either use it to see the beauty of life or let it burn us as it illuminates the depths of our paranoia. When learning to live again, you must accept that the brave bathe themselves in glory, while the coward recoils in horror in recognition of the atrocities s/he has committed.

2022 is a new year with a new opportunity to be brave. This year our enemy isn’t Covid, but fascism, a mental illness that no doctor can treat. Its only cure is a bitter pill called truth! It doesn’t matter who you are because time will write your eulogy and it’ll either record you as brave or a coward. Which will depend on which side of history you chose to be on and that depends on if you’re learning to live again or continuing to wait for death…it comes for all of us, but how much better is the life lived than that feared?

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As a student of psychology and a child of a dysfunctional family, I have long been fascinated by the Nature versus Nurture debate. To the layman, just having the debate suggests that the answer is black and white, but nothing could be further from the truth. What we do know is that there are pivotal developmental stages, which can with the brains natural elasticity form, either a healthy psyche or perverted psychosis. Repeated exposure to things like violence on TV, (in video games, etc) has been proven to numb the viewer to violence in general. And aversion therapy is a tried and true clinical technique to change someone’s cognitive behaviors.

With critical race theory and attacks the patriarchy, war has been declared on the unchangeable biological nature of a portion of the population. What happens on a psychological level to children who are taught day in and out to be apologetic for their existence? How does the physical nature vs nurture of a child rectify that being born white and male, the very act of being assertive is seen as an act of aggression? How do Caucasian boys find their place in the classroom and later society when they are constantly being beaten down? Do they get labeled as troublemakers and keep some sense of personal identity or do they acquiesce and develop more demure, traditionally feminine traits? Or do they end up on their knees begging for forgiveness (in some pseudo-sexual) act of submission while being humiliated by some racist person who is demanding apology for his white privilege?

Could this be conflict by design?

In the nature versus nurture debate, the fact is that a forceful environment can overwrite someone’s biological tendencies. One thing for certain, at least from my perspective, is that the number of effeminate males is growing. They turn to anyone that will listen because something is missing in their lives, something that therapists might not be legally allowed to bring up as an option. Much like in the school system with it’s strictly secular policies, a system that embraces atheist dogma; the medical industry demands that everyone leave God / Allah (swt)/Jehovah out of the equation. Truthfully, they can’t even suggest that something is wrong with a caller’s desire to take the next step in his feminine transition. They can only act as a sounding board. eg. “Yes this is common, no you are not unusual, no you are not strange, etc.” Hopefully something changes soon, or we may find that Islam’s statement that 50 women supported by one man, might have partially started out as impressionable little boys.

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