Do you recognize when you have a knee-jerk reaction to something; feelings so automated you didn’t think to process the trigger?

There are a number of triggers that we’ve been brainwashed to react to automatically, without consideration. “Blasphemy!” “He cheated on me!” “Weddings are/monogamy is so romantic!” “She SAID THAT!” “Ooh, a baby!” “Men can be real women.” I won’t list them all; if you picked this post, consider whether your feelings are yours or a result of automation. They can be both positive: “Oh, a diamond! It means he loves me!” and negative: “He said he likes my dress; he’s sexist!”

You don’t necessarily give yourself the time or the permission to consider what you actually think. Some of these automations are so taboo to disagree with that I deliberately avoid mentioning them here to avoid creating a problem for myself on Google… Or X. Even if I merely mentioned that you know, we’ve been TOLD to think this way, automatically, without consideration.

Do you feel the way you should about something that happened to you maybe? Or, perhaps, you feel turned on about something you should feel disgusted or angered about. Do you feel like your field of vision is narrowed in terms of who you should be attracted to because society forbids you from being attracted to who you are genuinely attracted to… Like, say, blonde women with big tits, or perhaps you find big women beautiful? Maybe, at the age of 18, you don’t feel right about feeling attracted to older men… But are. Maybe you don’t truly believe in God? See where I’m going? Tons of things are programmed into us.

We are animals. But we are also an extremely diverse animal species. We feel whatever we feel. Some of us are born old souls and are much more mature as children than some people will ever be. Allow yourself to think about it. Maybe in time, people will regain their right to species-typical behavior again. ;p

And no. I’m not suggesting you should break laws because you feel genuinely murderous at times, I’m saying maybe a discussion about what laws are based on knee-jerk reactions is in order. Otherwise, just give yourself a permission to be a rebel.

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