12-20-2016, 03:32 AM
(12-20-2016, 02:08 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:(12-20-2016, 12:48 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(12-19-2016, 11:10 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Why are you so bitter, over so little, as you are; if you don't have troubles? I find that hard to believe.You are correct. I have an authoritarian's attitude like most American adults my age. BTW, I'm free spirited too. I'm feeling fine. I'm doing fine as well. I had a pretty good childhood. I had two good parents who cared about me and loved me a lot as well. As far as being introspective, I don't have a problem looking inwards and making appropriate changes/adjustments from time to time. My mother taught me the value of doing that a long time ago. You appear to have a much bigger problem with that than me at this point.
I think a lot of Americans, especially in Red America, where the Awakening did not penetrate very far, are not very aware of what's going on within themselves emotionally, sociologically, psychologically. You guys are not very introspective. So you assume you are feeling fine, and doing fine, when you are not; and that your family background was cool when in reality it was oppressive. Or you have the habit of acquiescing in that oppression in many ways. And you project these ignored feelings into your political resentments, stirred up by Donald Trump and other Republican authoritarian demagogues. Of course, I'm not sure just what is the case with you. The authoritarian attitude is quite evident though.
I don't suffer fools too gladly, though.
Then you really must hate yourself since you are possibly the biggest fool it has been my misfortune to encounter.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises