Mole
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Those of us who work in a uniform like McDonald's or all in black in retail, best do our jobs if we are depressed. If we are alive and vital and connecting with others, it is almost impossible to do uniformed work, so depression is a condition of work.
If we meet a person who is alive and vital while we are depressed, it makes us aware of the pain of our depression, so we take offence at the alive and vital. We may say they are offensive and complain to authority to remove them, we ask the authority to do the right thing and cancel them.
This does not cure our depression but it enables us to do our job.
And it is the authority, such as the university, school, or McDonald's, operating together with the complainant, that makes cancelling such a successful political weapon.
Who would have thought free speech would have ended up in the gutter with cancelling.
If we meet a person who is alive and vital while we are depressed, it makes us aware of the pain of our depression, so we take offence at the alive and vital. We may say they are offensive and complain to authority to remove them, we ask the authority to do the right thing and cancel them.
This does not cure our depression but it enables us to do our job.
And it is the authority, such as the university, school, or McDonald's, operating together with the complainant, that makes cancelling such a successful political weapon.
Who would have thought free speech would have ended up in the gutter with cancelling.