My Point Exactly

Thursday, May 26, 2005

Dos

I love how our own president said the words, "You're either with us, or against us". Oh really? What ever happened to being neutral, or disagreeing with both sides, or agreeing with both sides, or having slight leanings or inclinations. Life isn't black and white so naturally it scares me to know my own president thinks in those terms.

I love hearing different opinions, granted they're not ignorant ones, because I know when it comes to concepts, there are no universal indicators and nothing written in the sky to suggest that one opinion is true in the most absolute sense. Instead it seems like we're merely dealing with varying shades of better or worse.

As right and wrong seem to imply that some universal absolute truth exists; two rights is impossible, there can only be one right way, so naturally everything else is wrong. Absurd, damnit!

Besides the concepts of right and wrong sets the stage for pure fucking horror. Right and wrong thinking sets up a dichotomy, and it's quite simple really. People in general are affiliators, not free thinkers. They affiliate themselves with schools of thought (Republican or Democrat...) and because this is a black and white society, the schools of thought are usually fundamentally opposed as well (Republican or Democrat..). Opposed even if it's just to spite the other party. "You like Oreos? Well I hate them, just because you like them". But secretly everybody knows oreos are delicious.

So people treat the truth, or the way to the truth, as if they were tribes in an ongoing battle for it. That's not rational. The intellectually lazy and irresponsible take sides, fling shit at the other side, and it becomes a heated debate; people dismiss what the other side says, not because of what was said, but because the other side said it (ad hominem) and go about affirming their beliefs by the numbers that believe it - as opposed to reflecting on them, so that we're simply dealing with ways of thinking, as opposed to reasoned ways of thinking.

As long as people continue to think in black and white, linear absolutes the shit flinging war will never end. It's only entertaining at the zoo. With monkeys. Not humans.

10 Comments:

  • The worst is to settle for good when there is better, speaking of shades.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:01 PM  

  • tres

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:40 PM  

  • amber you little latenight rascal.

    By Blogger Greg, at 11:41 PM  

  • rascal? You just conjured up an image of my bowtie wearing insurance agent of about 55 years old. He always says, "Amber, you ol' rascal you." At the end of every conversation he says, "Keep smilin'."

    Keep smilin', Greg. Keep smilin'.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:51 PM  

  • rofl

    By Blogger Greg, at 11:56 PM  

  • I hate black and white cuz I'm always in the fucking MIDDLE!! THE MIDDLE SUCKS!!

    (This is where we can be pissy, right?)

    By Blogger ssas, at 6:09 AM  

  • Yes sex this is the angry blog. Be pissy, be very very pissy!

    But not too pissy cuz then we'll all spark the Micheal Moore in one ear out the other syndrome.

    By Blogger Greg, at 1:11 PM  

  • :( Is that pissy enough?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:55 AM  

  • How about )(

    By Blogger ssas, at 6:52 PM  

  • I think it would be entertaining seeing humans fling shit at each other as long as no shit was being flung at me. Oh, and it didn't stink.

    By Blogger Busty Wilde, at 3:27 AM  

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