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Post by **peter** » Mon Nov 30, 2015 12:17 pm

Societies bandwidth of approval is in western societies at least, broad, and most of us fall naturally within it in our persuit of that which makes us happy. If we don't however, it can be problematic, but unlikely fatal. There are places however, where this is not the case.

Post by **Avatar** » Tue Dec 01, 2015 4:48 am

Indeed. And it hasn't been so for very long even in the "west." Progress is...well...a progression.

--A

Post by **peter** » Tue Dec 01, 2015 8:32 am

Indeed. I saw a programming about it last night. Self-betterment by education was a Victorian idea, but seen in terms of adding to the collective good. The importance of the individual and ones right to 'march to your own drum' is a post-war development. At the end of 'Brick Lane', the famous novel about the emancipation of an Indian lady immigrant brought over into an arranged marriage in East London, she is told by her friend and colleague that she can't go ice skating in a sari. Of course you can, she replies, "this is England - you can do anything you want."

Post by **ussusimiel** » Tue Dec 01, 2015 11:51 pm

I can't actually find a woman in a sari skating!? Obviously, the Internet still has a bit of catching up to do!

This will have to do instead:

Post by **Avatar** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 4:21 am

peter wrote:"this is England - you can do anything you want."

Well, not anything.

But by the standards of a repressed background, it must have seemed so.

--A

Post by **peter** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 9:10 am

I guess the line is qualified with the unspoken rider pertaining to the limits of the law, but in terms of cultural sensibilities and class mobility it's pretty much true that there are few limits that the individual cannot break.

Post by **Avatar** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 4:33 am

Well, technically there are no limits one cannot break, provided one is prepared to accept the consequences.

--A

Post by **Savor Dam** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 5:59 am

So true. Worth considering are the limits we keep ourselves from breaking because of unwillingness to bear the supposed consequences. Not because it violates "harm none", only the shackles of convention.

You won't be sari for skating that edge.

Post by **Icarus Unfallen** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 6:13 am

We're so sari!

Post by **peter** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 10:05 am

What did he mean by that? [Einstein not Icarus; Sari Icarus:)]

Post by **ussusimiel** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 10:17 pm

Post by **peter** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 2:58 am

A strangely becoming little picture U.

Post by **ussusimiel** » Sat Dec 05, 2015 6:53 pm

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Post by **Icarus Unfallen** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 4:24 am

Post by **Savor Dam** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 4:30 am

True to my Northwestern roots, I present the following intimidating trash-talk from Richard Shear-man:

Post by **ussusimiel** » Fri Dec 11, 2015 6:00 pm

Post by **MsMary** » Sun Dec 13, 2015 5:31 pm

That feels much cooler, thank you.

Post by **ussusimiel** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 9:17 pm

Post by **sgt.null** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 9:07 am

in an alternate universe, I became a shepherd.

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