RE: White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville
August 18, 2017 at 3:53 pm
I think maybe this all stems from the need for people to feel they are doing something with their lives? We're pretty much a drone society. We go make our widgets get our food and then watch our tv. If we die, it doesn't really matter too much. The machine rolls on. But at the same time, we're buried under platitudes from birth. Make the most of yourself. Be the change you want to see in the world. And on and on...
So we've got all these unimportant people who want to believe they are important. Well, you can't be important if you're nemesis is some hot dog guy and a statue depicting events from 150 years ago. So people create this weird delusion, that it's not just some dipshit hotdog maker with dumb ideas. It might just be Hitler's reincarnation...and if we don't stop him from a rally to stop taking down a statue, a rally which was unlikely to have any impact on the removal of the statue, why, what's next? The reinstitution of slavery!? Nazi Rule in America?
It's all kind of silly, but people have invested so much of who they are into this stuff, that there's no turning back now. It is people's personal identity to be the 'good guy fighting evil.' Even if being the good guy just involves sending out a tweet, or sucker punching some dipshit, and evil is a moron who makes hot dogs for a living.
It's such trivial nonsense that has been elevated to this grand endeavor.
So we've got all these unimportant people who want to believe they are important. Well, you can't be important if you're nemesis is some hot dog guy and a statue depicting events from 150 years ago. So people create this weird delusion, that it's not just some dipshit hotdog maker with dumb ideas. It might just be Hitler's reincarnation...and if we don't stop him from a rally to stop taking down a statue, a rally which was unlikely to have any impact on the removal of the statue, why, what's next? The reinstitution of slavery!? Nazi Rule in America?
It's all kind of silly, but people have invested so much of who they are into this stuff, that there's no turning back now. It is people's personal identity to be the 'good guy fighting evil.' Even if being the good guy just involves sending out a tweet, or sucker punching some dipshit, and evil is a moron who makes hot dogs for a living.
It's such trivial nonsense that has been elevated to this grand endeavor.