The “if you can’t take it, don’t dish it” attitude about censorship keeps many unknowing of the worst that can happen to them. Bad things people may not have experienced won’t occur to them as something others have gone through, depleting help that could be meant for victims. The “if you can’t take it, don’t dish it” saying is often a challenge to confrontation when the challenging person feels like their ideas are being censored or challenged.
“If you can’t take it, don’t dish it,” could in theory also be used as a mantra among those in inner circles who are trying to rewrite history, and keep facts from making it into history books. “If you think this will make us look unfavorable, don’t say it,” one could assume. This kind of thinking could also keep people from talking about their deepest problems.
If someone has to censor their own presentation to get their point across, they’re not telling or showing the truth. Censorship relies on trained fear. Fear that lies in embarrassment of the presenter if the audience were to know the truth, and fear embedded in the audience based on what they have been conditioned to fear. Different people are afraid of different things. So, what are the most censored means and purposes of communication? I’m not sure, but fear leads to secrets and secrets can keep fear quieter but not silent. The secret-to-fear-to-secret-to-fear cycle is changing.
There’s a scene in one of the old Robin Hood movies where a king or ruler is telling a mistress who’s trying to put clothes on, “Who told you to cover up?”
So, who told you to cover up? And what fear did they instill in you as a likely punishment for not covering up?
Please take care as the weather is changing around the Earth, and I hope that more about the deepest fears of society’s people, and more about schizophrenia can be discovered in the future.