Q:
Nicole, I know you’ve been through it, so I want to ask you. I feel like I have so much to say, but honestly, I’m terrified of ending up where you are. I have a good life. I’m scared I’ll lose everything.
A:
Here’s what being canceled does: It knocks out your “nevers”—those preferences that keep you bound in partisanship.
“I would never associate with, or be associated with, that person.”
It drives you to a deeper ethical layer, a principle beyond pre-packaged politics. You gain a new divining rod.
With no stake in “sides,” you’re drawn to a more integrated kind of politics. There’s a new radar, a way of sensing “your kind,” And an ear that can hear through the propaganda.
Because you’ve been the subject of propaganda, you can see the programming, And say, without drama, “That is simply not true.” You recognize the hypocrisy and faulty reasoning that binds samsara, the “us vs. them.” It’s painful as hell.
Jung provides an excellent account of this—the dark night of the soul.
But if you can bear being canceled, kicked out of the club, ostracized—I highly recommend it. It’s the key to your freedom.
Build your happiness from the inside out, so you never have to rely on money, property, or prestige. Then, you’re no slave to anyone and a servant to all.
A life with a gag? That’s no good life at all. In that life, you walk enslaved through beautiful circumstances.