Each individual wants to be seen, heard and taken into consideration. This are reasonable aspirations, even though they might be tricky to put into practice.
Folks with access to the attention of many are sometimes quick to criticise the expressive output of their contemporaries who are functioning within cultural terms of reference that could be at variance with the terrains they are aware of. There’s no smoke without fire, but context is also important.
Cultures that claim to uphold principles of individual freedom are not perfect. In many cases, there are harrowing stories lurking within those cultures that hardly ever get a look in.
Nevertheless, spindoctors apply their skills and others are conditioned into thinking the grass is greener, elsewhere. The conditioned mind aims to be recognised in the airbrushed location.
Then the smug inhabitants of the actual places recoil in horror when they’re faced with mass migration, freedom of movement, asylum seekers etc. Is it really possible to have it all?
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