Shakespeare is all about the fiction of knowable interiorities (sometimes defending against their own knowable-ness c.f., Hamlet.)
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Replying to @csilverandgold
This runs counter to the intellectual humility demanded by the identity left, the "if I have not been there, I ought not speak on it."
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Shakespeare is premised on the transparency of psychology, that we can see the world through other people's eyes.
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and indeed we can... if those "people" are persuasive fictions brought to life by talented artists/craftspeople + our complicit imaginations
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But if those people are actual people, who experiences differ from ours... they are not transparent, they cannot be analyzed with our rubric
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IDPOL insists that experience places a limit on the knowable-ness of other selves, and thus on the ability to legislate past experience.
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Meanwhile, the Shakepeare-Freud genius of white/Western culture insists that other minds can be rendered transparent by language/analysis.
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But how can you expect a-society-any-society to dis-concur with Shakespeare? All power is dangerous by definition, imaginative power too.
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