What started this paranoia?

Probably years ago a teacher in a long soliloquy that was intended to introduce with humor included a self-realization that she was likely "the village crazy lady" cause ya know they never recognize it themselves.

Short tangent: I got upset at a common question asked by medical/pyschological doctors. The interview almost always included the question if I ever heard voices that were not there? This question seemed as rediculous as the job interview to determine honesty asked if most people lie. If determining sanity was the object why would one openly admit to hearing voices that no one else heard...it always made me wonder if someone had said that I heard voices, cause why would someone even ask something like that. Surely, if you heard "voices" you would not admit to such, right?

Anyway, so this teacher got me thinking about what I did not perceive that commonly others did. Then, today as I was thinking about advertisements that all seem to target other demographics, I wondered if they were blissfully unaware thinking it a cultural revolution or something, like the feminists who think being allowed to vote is a huge step forward. Ummmm, it seems like having marital/family unity would have provided just as much voice, and it is probable that making women equal actually did much more to destroy true progress.

In college, in a Shakespeare class we were reading "Taming of the Shrew" and I voiced my opinion that it was refreshing to see a working society's workings. That the woman and all would be so much better off through recognizing her true place. I thought that an entire class reading and seeing how this worked in fiction might help to rectify some serious social issues. My professor told me that it was because of people "like me" that she started teaching in the first place. She felt that I needed to be "educated" to better understand a woman's place...bah!

So, it feels like there is a huge push for financial equality that is evidenced in the selling of products that will appeal to minorities.

We see more "famous" or glamorized (targeted) black people and women. But, like the teacher said years ago, am I the village crazy lady who doesn't see what they are?

Another side track: I used to get upset almost depressed because people would say that I looked so pretty. I thought they must really think I look like someone who needs compliments.

I thought they were trying out a "Mahana" experiment on me. It is a story where a very ugly girl is overlooked until she is valued and complimented and subsequently becomes as beautiful as she was treated.

I want to shout out to the movers and shapers (keeps autocorrecting to movers and shakers) of society and ask them if they realize that they are simply a pawn of capitalism not the chess players. The society as a whole is not suddenly liking things they like. If anything it is likely driving a dialectical wedge between what most people and what the loudest want.

I, for one, dislike r-rated language and culture that is being packaged and sold as typical when it is not.