Totally stoked to have found ya, thanks so much for commenting.
I have been in the exact same situation until I threw the towel when I couldn't take it anymore, and life opened up different pathways.
You are the first one on Steemit that I have heard point out the aspect of personhood and how that applies. It is such a marvellous discussion to be had.
Thanks for getting that situation off your chest, I am certain you are speaking for millions of people who simply swallow their dismay at the status quo everyday, knowing fully well they are doing something lawful yet totally inhumane that they have reluctantly accepted as "necessary" - teaching their kids the same dogmas in an endles cycle of psychological pain we have still not come out of since the Roman empire...
Maybe the delegation of right and wrong to corporate conglomerates masquerading as rightful representatives is the problem. The older I get the clearer I can see it. Funny thing is, I always had that question. It's just that most "grown-ups" pretended to know that it has to be this way when it clearly doesn't.
A great and heartfelt article!
Totally followed!
Thanks so much, @paradigmprospect! And thank you for introducing me to Kohn; I listened to that lecture yesterday late at night, and it was like listening to everything I ever thought was wrong with the concept, and then some! He's absolutely right: there are no benefits to the competition model, at least none that I've been able to think of. And people use it to explain away so many bad things we do to each other, because they don't understand what "survival of the fittest" really means... Kohn also describes very good the tragic way how we keep teaching our children these wrong ideas, even if we know better.
Thanks again! Hope to see more from you in the future, and I already followed you of course ;-)
Aye, the tribe is ever growing <3