Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Typecasting Human Complexity
In yahoo.com's search engine I typed "the liberal inside", and the first article that came up was one from a conservative blog doing what seems to be the same kind of thing most Talk Radio pundits do ... take things out of context, and reassemble them to make sense only to themselves. The sad thing is that I am of the understanding that not all conservatives think this way no more than liberals can be tagged down by a mere couple of shallow concepts. What it comes down to is that humans are complicated, and many tend to not understand how politicians work at all, and I mean conservative, liberal, or whatever. Attempting to typecast however seems to be common, because it is what "sells". You know, kind of like the Nazis description of what they thought Jewish people were that made them into essentially devils or animals to be slaughtered during WW2. Dehumanization, of a sort. Makes it easier to condone violence towards that "other side". I typecast many conservatives under the header of "bully", but at the same time that isn't always the case. It comes down to who yells the loudest, and pushes the hardest on the people that are the most helpless. I define "some" as bullies but not all. Just like some liberals can be ...well complete assholes. Wow, can they be assholes especially if you trod on their delicate sense of "peacenikism", or snarky "neo-intellectualism" then you will see nashing sharp teeth appear "sometimes" cruel as any thing they think the other side possible of. I need it understood I do not dehumanize the conservative view, but I do point my fingers as some people that display a dangerous level of malice towards a political systems they obviously have no understanding of past what some pundit has burnt into their heads with propaganda (talk radio, Foxnews, ect). To be honest if anything it is the PR of both sides that can be to blame, and it in the end is about profiteering from that reckless amount of anger that can unfortunately actually get people killed.
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