Accelerated Adolescence

You censor yourself out of fear of offending others? Is that all bad?

Fear may or may not be a reason for censure. Fear is a prison one cannot escape without assistance. Perhaps you can give freedom sometimes too.

Hey, Mensch.

Me too.

Side note: nifty counterpositioning of censure and censor.

I'm offended by this blog.

"Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts."
(Adlai Stevenson, American politician)
I think this may be a good, though not direct, translation of my mother's saying, "Tout verite n'est pas bon a dire." (Mara, please correct my French.)

Hey, I think that Papa's on target here. I think, this may be true for Nathan as well, that we censor ourselves in an effort to reduce the exhaustion resulting from battling over our words or damaging relationships with ourselves and others that may not be particularly important to us but are important relationships to other people. Is that abstruse enough?

This is too, too funny! Censorship in a blog entry lamenting censorship. By the one lamenting. And yet I totally understand and support it.

Mendon?!!

Did you delete the rest of your blog?!?!

Isaac Goldberg said: "Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way."

My step-father is a diplomat. Watching him arguing with my mother (or anyone, really) is witnessing diplomatic mastery. Often it reminds me that diplomacy is necessary in even the simplest of life situations, because, at the end of the day, people are fragile. Fear is different - definitely more negative - than being fragile.

Therefore it's not censorship we're talking about, it's about "sensor-ship".