Oppressed and intimidated or paranoid?

Or all three?

Is there a link between these?

An oppressed person severely suffers, and aren't we all oppressed once in a while? Aren't we all the victim of oppression? Or aren't we? Oppression is like a hype, the way to go so it seems.

Long exposure to oppression is bad. I believe you could start to suffer mentally.

Or am I mistaking oppression for something else?

People just weren't nice to me. Was it me or was it them? They shake your hand and fake a smile?

The oppression and intimidation goes on until you set your mind to it, and oppress and intimidate yourself.

Third time I posted this video here:

reply to post by oktopus


People use intimidation to oppress people most of the time. So, there is a difference. Intimidation is a tool. Oppression is the outcome. As for paranoia, that can be a result of both I suppose. There are a million different reasons people become paranoid. Yes, long stints of oppression would cause someone to be paranoid......but so will lack of sleep, mental illness, personal tragedy, different drugs ect. The list could go on and on and on and on lol.

oktopus
The oppression and intimidation goes on until you set your mind to it, and oppress and intimidate yourself.

You are failing to realize one thing with that statement. If you do break free of oppression and intimidation only to turn around and do it yourself, you are no better than the people that were doing it to you. At all. I kind of get what you are saying though. In order to beat a monster you have to become a bigger, badder monster. True, but you can't lose yourself in the process. If you do, you aren't changing anything. Just rearranging it.

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Yes, that's Obvious, and I'm not saying you should do it to yourself if you broke free from it. That would be kind of silly, don't we agree now.