Young Writers Society

I was just looking at some of my old reviews back when I was active on here and godd**n I was harsh! I grew up with a lot of demons ...

Contemporary artists are rarely successful purely because they have talent, or even because they just make music people want to hear. Success requires immense business savvy, perseverance, awareness,

@Spotswood In my opinion, in this day and age at least, we need to sacrifice our desire for complete and total freedom (which we, thankfully, do not have anyway, since ...

before WHEN? Everything you're saying is too vague and too subjective. Also: How do you define small? And what about our current condition excludes the capitalist ideology?

@15253 Whenever there's a public sphere that regulates and coincides with a private sphere, there will be corruption. In that sense there really can be no true democracy, particularly on ...

I'd stop worrying about ethics so much--everything is subjective, since every scenario is different and everyone's brains work in different ways. Imposing a universal code of morals on this or ...

Meditation. And LSD.

Babies conceived by rape and babies conceived by consensual sex are biologically the same. If one has a right to life then so does the other. Children conceived through consensual ...

People with conscious, harmful racial bias are people who have not intellectualized the fact that people are equal, and who do not exercise corrective thought patterns when their ethnocentricity does ...

Your initial post argued that, based on evolution, ethnocentrism will always exist, You seem to have latched onto this point whilst ignoring all of my others, so let me make ...

@Kyllorac Haha, social pressure will never be strong enough to actually prevent ethnocentric people (currently, everyone) from mating, but nice try! These instincts are reinforced, like I said, by hun

I disagree with your conclusion that unconscious ethnocentricity can really be "addressed" or removed at a conscious level. Ethnocentricity exists as a tribal function due to the fact that humans ...

Also, I'm just saying, when it comes to oppression, real people's real life experiences > all the research in the world. I'm really struggling to hear you over your deafening ...

The fact of the matter is that, based on my experiences as a non-white person, every white person I have ever encountered has been racist towards me, including members of ...

I see what you mean @Kafka, but no straighty ever has the same motivation as an lgbt+ person. You might """really care""", but until it's your life on the line ...