Apparently believing that dysfunction is normal and good is evil isn’t conducive to peace of mind. I guess trying to see that two plus two equals five all the time must hurt their brains. Well there is the consolation that these people are at least scared and miserable. Now if we can find a way to prevent them from inflicting their madness upon us we’ll be ecstatic.
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The “Democrat Dilemma”
When you are not sure that what you believe is true, yet you feel you absolutely must believe or everything becomes a lie, the only resolutions that you have are:
silence the voices (real or imaginary) that say it is not true.
question what you believe, which leads back to “When you are not sure what you believe is true” which leads back to resolutions.
Evenually, you will take the first option, just to ease the piece of mind. Which is where you find the people that told you what to believe…
Interesting formulation NostraD. Are you the author?
I guess I am, but it is more autobiographical than formulation… Left unmentioned above is that you can actually break the cycle, but it does mean completely starting over and rebuilding that which you believe. Which is sometimes too high a price.
Well, maybe if we force reality to exact a higher price for faulty reasoning more people will make the leap.
Reality already does exact a higher price you see it all around, yet some will remain blind to it until it hits home. Others will find comfort in the cacoon of being told what to believe and what to disbelieve.
Hopefully we can arrange for it to hit home.