Private Consciousness Raising



We have all have heard of those times in the late 70s and early 80s when a bunch of women would discuss and discuss and somehow from it all they would alter their perceptions, their consciousness and their sensibilities. But what if it could be done be done alone – by consideration alone. And then one communicates that social change to others. Now x is wrong, not right. Y is ambiguous and no longer certain. And that arcane subject other yonder is of paramount importance. But no-one has heard of the discussion leading to such change. The new purveyor of such new ideas is utterly alone. Such a situation opens itself to ridicule. And such pain…