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20030411
Dialogue on a day in April
Brandoni said: "And our ability to twist logic and reason to suit our purposes is..."
Unfortunate. Most everyone does it for their own purpose, or to maintain their own sense of reality, personality, individuality, ignorance. What we're seeing now is a kind of group fantasy that is having all-too real effects on another group... and it's bound to have reciprocal effects on this or another closely connected citizenry. I mean, look at the effects on the economy here, where all this warmaking comes with an $87 billion bill in the middle (some say the economy hasn't hit bottom yet) of a two- or three-year recession.
Anyway, I wanted to say that while the real we all -- individuals -- play fast + loose with logic, attention, etc; the main men (and again, it's men) at the lead in this government seem particularly inclined to distort. And while it would seem that it's about power or self-righteousness or hegemony... but I think at the root it's fear. And certainly a lack of appreciation for the mechanism of cause and effect.
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"Don't tread on me, either."
HST 1937-2005
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