Absolutely not. Only and exclusively enemies of the State. But, considering they might constitute the majority of your circle… you clearly might be ignorant enough to consider them to be “damn near everyone”.
Proves my point, though, with calling you like that!
Commander Kim,
I did, and I also pointed out the theory was incorrect, because as my youth leader pointed out to me at the time the purpose of my training and cadre socialization was to reject such conceptions of individualism (that the individual is the sole arbiter of morality and ethics) and to instead accept the collective social will on such matters.
Oh, please excuse me, I misunderstood you then.
Commander Kim,
The post in question was just a rebuke to the idea, expressed by Aria Jenneth, that all that Deteis are taught are to be “reserved” – as if somehow just acting in such a fashion will make one a Deteis.
Being Deteis is something more fundamental, at least as I was taught in my Kaalakiota creche.
To be Deteis is the acknowledgement that the Maker’s creation has the cruelty of indifference, and the Winds will cover our tracks made in the snow as if we never were. It is the acceptance of harshness, and pain, and suffering in life – to experience them vicariously through the privations of self-denial and the struggles both physical and mental to be inflicted to harden the heart and innure the self for the task of survival.
To know that one was born, and will die with nothing, but that one can choose to live without false sentiments and desires from seeing the universe for what it is.
This I think is what yes, can make a Deteis like myself seem reserved to others perhaps.
My own socialization as I grew up into adulthood tended to focus on cultivating a very particular type of worldview, unperturbed by distraction, rational, unsentimental, personal acknowledgement of the strength of community over the self (social piety?).
However, unless one grew up under such a system I do not think they will fully grasp what it means to be a Deteis, and just focus on the superficial aspects, without knowing why such aspects arise.
Please snowflake
Quite the opposite actually, there is nothing inherently special or unique about me beyond my place in the hierarchy. I am quite interchangeable, and expendable as the greater good would have required.
Is it only Deteis thing? I mean, we all are just grains of sand, shadows and dust. And only in the right place, working together as one we can achieve greatness.
What is one grain of sand? It’s nothing.
What is a multitude of grains of sand? That’s just bucket of sand.
But when you have proper hierarchy, when every grain sits where it should be, you can build sand castles, you can build corporations, societies. We are somebody only when we are doing something we were intended to do and not doing something that somebody better is doing. We all must learn our places and do our part. That’s what makes us humans and not cattle. Strict hierarchy, defined places for everyone and personalized duties.
Commander Kim,
I believe anywhere one looks in the cluster there exist social hierarchies – it is a natural tendency of human community and organization. Even the Federation, for all its talk of democracy and equality remains hierarchical: it is a capitalist society which lauds entrepreneurs and the wealthy as deserving of their inequality in material wealth compared to others in their society.
Then again, these are the same people who talk of invasion in terms of “humanitarian intervention” the deliberate attempts at demoralizing another society by cultivating impressionable useful idiots to be shills so as to overthrow traditional culture by fomenting coups and revolution as “cultural deliverance” and the displacement of native populations through colonization and settlement by a foreign peoples as “cosmopolitanism”.
I don’t think they have such a strict hierarchy or a feeling of a place for a person in a society. After all, only in a Federation an exotic dancer or an actor can become a President. Only in Federation voices of cooks and janitors can be equal to voices of scientists and professional leaders. Speaking of professional leaders, the whole idea of democracy implies none. They probably have universities that teach them their “political” studies, but again, having a degree in same social sciences is not a requirement to be elected in a position of authority, and it is like completely voluntary. If you want to study and get this degree, you get this, but it doesn’t guarantee you progression, because any uneducated fool without same degree could make a speech or dance to a crowd and be elected instead of you with your degree…
It is just inhuman.
I am still outraged how these uncultured swines, who flaunt bare skin, behave so loud in public places, litter around, disregard and disrespect other cultures, bring dirt in other homes on soles of their boots, procreate with each other without marriage, engage in sexual activity with wrong genders… dare to claim they bring culture to others.
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