ACENTUATE THE POSITIVES

I was going to post about how humans terrify me

(who wants to fit into a culture where

sociopaths succeed

psychopaths are glorified

Lying narcissist cause irreparable harm to others

and mindless automatons fit in

A culture that stereotypes and categorizes

Where attractive people are considered the good guys and intelligent–(thanks partly to movies and tv  where the hero is always attractive)

 

My generation (The Flower Power Generation)

have been the catalyst for change

I was in “Women’s Liberation”

Women had no rights and no status and the majority of women believed this was how  it should be.

We couldn’t buy a house and landlords would not rent to separated women:
we couldnt have a bank account

a solicitor told me that abuse wasn’t grounds for divorce

I Googled this — “Women also faced financial discrimination and were seen as a high-risk investment by banks as little as just 50 years ago. It wasn’t until 1975 that women could open a bank account in their own name.”

A woman was expected to stay a virgin until she was married:

A man was expected to be promiscuous:

Never understood how that worked:

In the 1950s gay men were put into a mental institution  (in South Australia — think  it was prison in other countries)

AND THEN CAME THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION.

YIPPEE!

Gays could stop pretending that they were heterosexual.

And women could enjoy sex.

 

I was in the origanal GreenPeace –

Animal liberation and later Trees For Life

Greenpeace was considered a dangerous radical group and its member deviants

In the 1970s I was ridiculed and abused for being a vegetarian

This century environmental groups have devolved into impotent bureaucracies

BUT

On a positive note

thanks to both social media and the media

more are aware of the problems humans have and are causing

ACENTUATING THE POSITIVE =

more people care about the enviroment

more respect cultures

more respect sexual prefrences

and more are vegans

 be kind to  non humans

I took this photo last century on Kangaroo Island