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I love how anti-establishment Megyn Kelley has become. And how against the COVID jab she is now. She wasn’t in the beginning. But she was always against the mandates and the masks. The thing I value most is people who not only change their mind and world view, but people who admit when they are wrong. If you can’t or don’t change your mind, it means you are not wrestling with the changing world around you. It means you don’t care enough to think about it. To soul search. It means you don’t know how to change or evolve. Those (most) who dig in their heels, sinking deeper into their blindspots, patterns, apathy, idiocy, hypocrisy, cognitive dissonance, and illusions drive me fucking crazy. I loved Kelley’s recent take on cancel culture: “I’ve since become a big fan of cancel culture. Cancel culture separates you from a place you didn’t belong.” A brilliant (spiritual, mystical) take on the lesson (moral value/edification) of being ostracized. But that still doesn’t mean it is a choice. Whether or not you actually are cancelled, I think claiming to be cancelled is the number one way to insure (more) acceptance and approval. Most of the people I know who complain about being cancelled are successful and popular. They are not actual outsiders or truly outspoken by choice, they just said or did the “wrong” thing, usually by accident. Being a true outsider and nonconformist means you stop trying to fit into/go along with and benefit from a world that is morally, artistically, politically, and spiritually bankrupt. You don’t get to keep everything when you are cancelled. You stop trying to (re)position yourself. You don’t immediately rebrand yourself. You don’t necessarily ever recoup your “value.” You no longer operate from a place of approval. Once you are cancelled, if you didn’t do it before, you do have to make some very difficult choices, you do have to take some sort of stand, you do have to change and walk away from certain things. Maybe all things. If this means you have to leave some of your personal world (comforts, groups, scenes, alliances, beliefs) behind, then so be it. To remain and “succeed” in this crumbling false matrix requires you to compromise yourself. To compromise yourself is to lose yourself. To lose yourself is to betray yourself and others. Otherwise, the title of cancellation is an empty signifier used to get more votes, like so many things today. Besides, weren’t we all cancelled if we didn’t comply with the COVID regime and got the MRNa shot?? When you are truly cancelled, it is a silent thing. No one says anything, there is no public theater involved. They just stop supporting you, stop publishing you, stop being your friend. You don’t just bounce back, with a brand new beginning, or path, or platform. Everyone does not come to your aid and rally around you. People do not suddenly recognize your “brilliance.” If they do, you are lucky. Most truly strong/independent people get very little-to-no support (at least not publicly) because most people are afraid of strong people who are true to themselves (even if they are also drawn to people like this, but this gravitation is usually vampiric, one-sided, and temporary), and don’t know how to stick up for them. That would take courage. It’s one thing to be drawn to someone, it’s another thing to actually choose to stand by someone mind, body, and soul. In word and in deed.