You an S&M practitioner or something? Or have you been jailed or enslaved somewhere really backwards?

What about my other questions?

My bad. Finger slipped. That said…

I know what they're referencing, I don't understand what they mean.

Are you replying to the wrong comment?

> Anybody who thinks sitting still makes them unnoticeable

First, by 'them' do you mean the chains or the individual?

Second, are you familiar with the concept of Learned Helplessness?

Third, are you talking about literal chains?

No. 😏

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Would you care to elaborate on this seemingly counterintuitive claim?

Yes. That is applicable to many things beyond socioeconomic conditions and 'knowing one's place'. Ever hear of Learned Helplessness?

You lost me.

And yet here you are, actively giving it attention.

A woman in the early XXth century was never in chains?

You mean like billionnaires, speculators, landlords, and grifters?

> So by your own admission, they didn't start the war.

Depends on how you define 'start' and 'the War'. They didn't 'start' the Austrian invasion of Serbia but they gave them the diplomatic blank check that allowed this to happen. They then went on to pre-emptively attack France via Belgium, starting the full on World War as we know it. Perhaps you might say their diplomatic agreements gave them no choice, except there's been no shortage of chickening out on such assurances of allyship in the previous decades, averting war many times, and the reason the current alliances were set up in the way they are is that Wilhelm II, genius that he was, deluded himself into thinking he was great at personal diplomacy and that he was smarter than Bismarck, ruining every alliance he had by pissing everyone off being a rude weirdo, and generally being an incompetent and a laughingstock at every damn thing he did that wasn't playing dressup. Which, admittedly, he was great at.

I pity the fool because of his horrible childhood and the terrible upbringing that directly made him who he is, but that doesn't excuse his choices.

Monarchies are a bad idea, and monarchists are the saddest and most pitiful kind of simp.

That is an excellent application of the general concept!

This should be a more common response to good quotes.

Based.

What are the specific connotations of '(sich) bewegen' and 'spüren'?

Owner: "I'm all about those serfs."

Learned Helplessness and the domestication of elephants.

Fine, have it your way. I like your cooking.

Thicker than even that, I suspect.

… You can tell an insight is really clever when it's

• illuminating
• obvious in retrospect
• would never have occurred to you to phrase it that way.

Thanks for the idea.