08-02-2018, 04:37 PM
(07-11-2018, 01:18 PM)Hintergrund Wrote: Boomers are hypocrites, like all "Prophets" - but after all, they're just playing heroes, they don't have to be.
Harrison Ford did a good job playing an anti-hero, though.
RIP Han Solo, you were the best.
There are two main sorts of hypocrites. One is the person with ideals to which he cannot live up. I won;t give the reasons; we all know them.
The other is someone who pretends to have great ideals and callously betrays them for gain. Think of the person who has all the perquisites of capitalist indulgence and affiliation while spying for the Soviet Union.
The vast majority of people are hypocrites, no matter what their station, generation, age, or origin. So who is not a hypocrite?
Either someone purely a saint or the person bad and proud of it.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.