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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
somebody@tech.lgbt ("Dataline") wrote:
@nelson @woof @floralia 100%. I'll add that the final boss of this is that rebellion for its own sake even forms a kind of reaction or conformity. This is one of the stickiest wickets imo. There's a reason for the sort of perennial arc people go through from "mother knows best" to "fuck you I'm not cleaning my room" to ultimately a kind of stoic wisdom that neither bends to authority nor attempts to establish its own sovereignty, basically just existing. Parenting has taught me a lot about this, recognizing that sometimes my authority is needed to prevent a complete derailment but that in those cases I should wield it with a feather's touch.