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If I were to “remediate” my major project then I would stop propping up my personal feelings about my work’s focus(Nanette) and try to examine the subject of Nanette in an objective way. A way that seeks to acknowledge both sides of the spectrum with an even distribution of time and understanding allotted into a proper analysis. By acknowledging both the fringes of ideology and how they relate to Nanette, I hope to illustrate the issues in their larger and “less-politically correct” form. My major project was dominated by excavations of the words “identity and normality.”
First of all, not all people are equal. There are some people who have aspects to their personalities that make them worth less than others. Just as there are people who are monetarily worth more than others, there are people who are worth more than others by their simple thread of personality traits and ideas. Gay people, or LGBT ect. people are worth less to society as a whole because they don’t contribute with the creation of life to the extent “straight” people do. Capitalism and society’s acceptance, both favor certain types of people with certain elements to the details that define them differently. The basis of people’s inequality, or being worth less than others, is the capitalist structure based in competition. If you’re unwilling to conform to the stream-line basis that make for success and an easier life, or you’re born and raised without the structures that make for an easier life, than you do not deserve an easier life. Inequality is what America runs on. If America were equal then it would cease to be America. This economic point is directly related to the acceptance of certain types of people who are not part of the “normal set” group of valuable people. An attack on the structures of foisted upon acceptance of degenerative groups is an affront to the capitalist structure of America as a whole. Freedom to accept and embrace who we want is a corner stone of freedom and capitalism.
While I did mentally vomit while writing the above, playing the “actual” devil’s advocate forced me to view a certain subject I am passionate about differently.
All people should be equal. Equality and acceptance are important to a democracy. This thrives during the heeding of the minority that helps to check the power of the majority’s hubris. Equality isn’t something that can be expected from humanity. Humanity wants to raise structures of inequality through competition. But competition isn’t about acceptance. Love and acceptance comes from equality. Acceptance of one’s gender, sexual orientation, and identity shouldn’t be something that must be fought for. But sadly it is.
Identities that turn up in mass, or in enough numbers to require acknowledgment, deserve respect. Respect is closer to the middle of the love hate spectrum. People who have certain identities, or certain perspectives, should be respected by those outside that identity. If something exists, it needs to be learned about and understood by those who are absent of its impact on themselves.
It’s good that people grow up and find certain identities because identity makes for a more stable foundation in self-awareness to who a person is and wants to be. If you’re young and you go to a race-track for the first time, and twenty years later you’re the racer in the car, can’t it be said that the racetrack you found was a good thing for you? The same can be said about identity. If you’ve always felt in between genders and you discover there’s an identity label called non-binary, isn’t that a good thing in cementing who you are? Identity labels need to be accepted and respected so people don’t feel as if “who they claim to be” is under constant attack. Who we are is a made up concept. Nobody is just a fluent set of details rolled into a “natural type” of person. We make up who we are by feeling our way through our likes and dislikes mixed with our own special attempt at adaptation to our environment. When we attack people for being different we’re participating in a kind of fascism that rewards an “ideal type.” The fact is there is no ideal type, just as there’s no baseline of perfect genes. No matter who you are, you’re going to have a proclivity towards “this or that” and in the end that “this or that” will kill you or at least make you weaker. We need to accept people for how they see themselves because to participate in humanity, one needs to accept in all its colors and perspectives.
Its not humanity when there is exclusion. Exclusion is the attempt to erase and edit an image for a specific reason rooted in censorship so one’s own internal image can exist as an illusion that obscures reality. The reality is all types and labels are the dynamic makeup of humanity and not certain types that have a monopoly on their censored concept of “normality.”
identity and normality” from opposite sides of spectrum I have discovered the relationship between economically structured minds(conservatives) and an acceptance driven minds(liberals). One tries to impede change. The other tries to make for more transformation to create an evolved state of better awareness and over all prosperity for all “types” of people.
I agree with you that equality is important to democracy, Oliver, and I think your theory that humanity wants to, “raise structures of inequality through competition” is interesting. It seems so backwards, doesn’t it? I think you’re right though, that competition within society (or even divisions in classes) does play a role in determining who receives equal rights and who doesn’t. I really love this line: “It’s not humanity when there is exclusion”. So true and who is anyone to exclude anyone else, you know ?
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