USA
There was a complete separation between fantasy and reality that had been building for centuries. Everything had been torn apart. Literally everything: races, families, communities, churches, tradition, nations, minds, etc.
It was the spell of ignorance. Not having a conversation. You could be Apollo (Reason) or Dionysus (Emotion), but not both, so you had to be Right or Left. Logic shows us the way to deal with our emotions.
It allows us to see what is great. Just a thought.
Note: Linder was defective. It was obvious to everyone for years. The “vanguard” was like Linder’s private war on Tim Wise. It was a “partisan divide” between Neo-Nazis and Jews.
If everyone could stop being such an idiot and work out there differences people, people wouldn’t be barking at each other like that. I didn’t agree with, say, Jeffrey Imm but I listened to him, considered his position, and talked to him.
There is too little of that these days.
hunter, I love the blog but you are really losing me.
LOL!!! I love it 🙂
I have lost the plot of what is going on here.
Did I hack you too fade?
Hunter has gone bye bye.
Sounds like Beatnik style stream of consciousness writing.
Nope.
The plot is essentially this: Washington had a great crisis because it was lost in its own bubble world. It was losing touch with Middle America. The discourse had become too polarized for some mysterious reason.
You saw all this yourself, right? I mean … Jon Stewart himself held a rally on the National Mall to “Restore Sanity” in DC last year.
It was DC that had gone insane. Everyone had gone insane. In the “debt ceiling crisis,” DC had its ultimate moment of insanity. The media had a bout of insanity.
The Vice President of the United States called the Tea Party a bunch of terrorists. Was that insanity?
No, it was people just venting and acting emotionally. People who couldn’t talk to each other or figure out what is going on in the world. And why was that? There had to be a reason.
Jack,
Have patience. I will calmly explain this insight in terms you can understand. Only recently have I almost started to “preach” what I was seeing.
Martin Luther King himself converted America by preaching to them in the 1960s. He appealed to morality and civility … to have a debate about his ideas.