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Shoot The Survivors
Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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……Our society has long treated men as machines, as bodies expendable in the name of progress or profit. Men have overruled their pain and soul’s delight, taught to think of themselves as “mechanisms”. Such an estrangement wounds very deeply; it has gone on so long and is so taken for granted that healing individuals, let alone a whole gender, is a dubious undertaking…The wounding is institutionalized and sanctified, and men unwittingly collude in their own crucifixion.
― James Hollis. Selected quotes from: Under Saturn’s Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men.
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“The wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a patriarchal world that did not want him to claim his true feelings. The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others…
Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair. Yet they are the outcome of life in a culture where things matter more than people. Materialism creates a world of narcissism in which…
