Moral absolutes - do not want

[essayel]

I've just been reading John C Wright's FIVE POST justification of his views on love, marriage, sex and his absolute conviction that whoever else burns in hell fire it won't be him. The link is to part one BTW if anyone has the stomach to sit through it.

Now I feel slightly dirty and wholly ashamed of being a middleaged, white, married heterosexual in case people think I'm like him.

I think I'll go and draw some more cartoon strip. In the next section - for absolutely valid, in character, historically verifiable reasons - Anatolios loses his clothes! *reaches for Burne Hogarth*

ETA - actually can I just make it clear that I know very well that drawing and writing the stuff I write and draw doesn't actually make me any the less privileged in my life. I've seen LOTS of references to 'checking your privilege' lately and I'm not quite sure how to do it but I think it's something to do with being ashamed that you've had it so easy.

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[erised1810.livejournal.com]

what? i got as far as the 'artist serve the muses' quote and the nleft. oh. my. god. the many times i heard people yamemr about jkr not having enogu hethnicities in her school-mirroring-the-outside-world-youth. we made a whoe ldamn list of the not-purely-british kids. ok, well, purel ywhtie kids then, before someoen poitns at seamus and then looks at me. anyway, we made awhole list of them, counted the mon our fingers adn al lthe tiem ithoguht 'so what? she'll be usign a whoel other way to hand us the racism-for-dummies thing. a whole different way whic his exacltywhat some teachers do with a thesisi ntheir lectures to make the college kids see the pitnthey're making.
and inthis case i don't know. i f he is the same one who wrote that trilogy i have here i'll jsut chuck i t out i think. eep.