Oh man, I wrote a nice big post a couple of days ago to calm down Zim Hosein, but I got so excited trying to pull one of the lines to add to my sig, the 'fool one' that I lost the whole post. What a bummer. I guess Squisher, you put be back over the top and I'll summarize it as best I remember.
Briefly, my point was that like Democrats who refused to see what a moral leper Clinton was in the sex department, and like Republicans who can't see what a simpleton Bush is, large numbers in the Moslem world also cannot see the obvious. This is how people are who choose teams, who base the quality of their identity on external factors. As soon as you say you are a 'something or other' it then becosme a requirement to defend that 'something or other' from any criticism. The reason for this is that people everywhere hate themselves, don't know it, and don't want to know it. Identification is the means by which they escape the feeling of personal worthlessness and suplant it with surrogate honors. I am a Moslem, I am an American, I am blah blan blah. Any attack on the surrogate threatens to force people to reexperience, awaken to, how bad they feel about themselves. This sickness is provound and universal. We are all the same. No amount of words, the profound logic that this concept has in explaining a huge portion of human behavior, will convince almost nobody, because the motivation not to know what we are feeling is massive. For anybody who wishes to affect heman consciousness upwardly, the challenges are immense. One avenue of potential, is the mirror, seeing yourself in the reflection of somebody like you but even more around the bend. Sometimes people turn back at a real sight of themselves. At least the vision can shock and arouse thought and maybe even introspection.
Somewhere in expressing that idea I came up with 'A dramaticaly overemphasized fool is the best illuminator of lesser foolishness.' which I decided to add to my sig as an additional clue to the possible intention of my post.
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