Very true. I hope it didn't come off like I was slinging mud at the K-Pop guy. Some days I look in the mirror and see a Somalian Pirate. On rare occasions, there's a lesbian trapped in a man's body staring back at me. And other times, I am the smoke creature from lost. I'm pretty sure I am almost all of the things and more. I'm very reality-fluid, but I also don't expect people to recognize, respect, or buy into my B.S. O.L.T. (Belief System, Or Lack Thereof). Reality is a game that we all play.

Box thinking is so harmful, and these younger generations, as fluid as they are in whatever area, often don't realize they can hop into any box they want at any given time. But, they don't have to live there, forever. And this is why it concerns me when so many of today's youths are turning to life-altering, and many times, irreversible surgeries so they can entertain a whim or cave to peer pressure promoted by head-shrinkers.

They're so used to affixing and creating various new labels and then sticking their voodoo doll representations of people inside the boxes they have in their heads. They've let the game of life become a religion unto itself with a dogma so strict that they're willing to cause harm to people if you don't speak to them using the language they've prescribed for you. We live in some very surreal times, and I expect the adventure to keep on adventuring.

As an aside, the K-Pop guy was initially the inspiration for this post, and then it bent and morphed into something about reality-bending, blah, blah, "advanced lessons." I just let the writing do what it did. Then as it approached the end, I remembered the original inspiration and kind of threw him in there along with my thoughts about it.

I gather that the guy will get a lot of ridicule, and considering all the body mods he's undergone this far, I don't think he will quit modifying anytime soon. I hope he finds peace and contentment with his new station in life as a caucasoid male who identifies as Korean. For whatever reason, the absurdity of identity politics does have the ability to hijack people's attention mana. And this post is proof of that.

At some point soon, I'm going to figure how I can completely ignore it. Because honestly, the whole identity politics stuff is a bit played out by now. Thank you for the nice compliment, @nineclaws, and for sharing your observations. They were entirely called for! 😄 I hope my subconscious has already started to suss what part II's focus will be. Creating fewer and fewer divides is only one small aspect of reality-bending. I should probably write out a list and see what's what. Which video again was the one that you loved?

+blessed be thy lettuce!

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