tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677656433774493646.post7316788087878415300..comments2023-05-17T01:03:11.834-07:00Comments on Diary of Bones: lynch mobs for the mentally illArcher's Boneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15507043334472692421noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677656433774493646.post-34633848087915290242013-08-15T12:13:55.406-07:002013-08-15T12:13:55.406-07:00Thank you my dear for being the voice of reason in...Thank you my dear for being the voice of reason in such a dark and disparing time. It truly is sad that rather than showing this person some kindness they see him as a problem to be thrown out with the trash. How would they feel if it was their family that needed the help and instead was treated this way. Unfortunately being the voice of reason isn't always the popular position, but it is the responsible one.Kleaf19https://www.blogger.com/profile/03431526317881173434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677656433774493646.post-61633859092015310242013-08-14T18:52:56.355-07:002013-08-14T18:52:56.355-07:00Fear wants violence. It is an old anti-logic that...Fear wants violence. It is an old anti-logic that works at all levels of society. Hence the idea that, post 9-11 "examining our relationship with the Muslim world" is a completely traitorous and insanely unsupportable idea, and "kill all of just the right ones and the problem will be solved," is widely accepted to be a level headed and practical course. We have measurable results from this strategy, Vietnam's aftermath, the "winning endstates" in Afghanistan and Iraq. These crappy results from attempting to target ideologies the way we used to target uniformed armies of organized state actors seem to have no impact on our thinking. I think it is because fear fundamentally dislodges us from reason. The great irony is that we want to make our enemies fear us even more than we fear them after they have attacked us. What we fail to note is that when we feel that way, we want to kill a lot of people in order to make ourselves feel safe again. When they kill us, we NEVER feel like just calming down and shutting the fuck up. So we kill em back, and they continue to feel like killing us, but even more. So---ummm--it's working?<br /><br />The reasonable response to a threat, that actually contains consideration of the idea that there are human psyches inside the threat itself, real people that have motivations and incentives, that reasonable approach seems crazy when one is gripped by fear. The funny part is that our fear is borne out of the idea that that person, or persons, cannot be reasoned with. That like us, that entity can only be successfully engaged by total destruction.<br /><br />What we fear is that The Enemy feels as unreasonably violent as we do. Hmmm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com