The Axis of Demonization
What do George W. Bush, Wal-Mart, and Israel all have in common?
All three of them are demonized and vilified - often by the same group of people - far out of proportion to any actions they might take. As such, I now consider them my touchstones of sanity. One can easily talk about the bad things they're each responsible for; but to many, they have no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Someone who believes that isn't wholly rational.
(and yes, I was thinking about this before being contacted by Wal-Mart's PR firm).
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Out of proportion? Not to what those radicals see. They see George Bush destroying America and killing thousands. They see Israel becoming the new Naziism. They see Wal-Mart imitating Pentex.
So they see their actions as disproportionatly small---constrained only by their love of reason and abhorance for violence.
In other words, I don't have a major problem with their logical processes, the reasoning after the axioms---but their axioms and perception are seriously mistaken. They really do imagine Bush, Waltons, and Zionists scheming for ways to increase pain and suffering without any benefit to themselves. As you say, they're demonized. They're perceived as inhumanly evil, and as inhuman in general. The leftists think that these are different sorts of people, maybe not people at all.
I'm not sure we'll get anywhere trying to teach leftists about logic and syllogisms, since they seem to already know about these. We may get somewhere by socializing other ideas, by gently introducing various corners of the political spectra to one another.
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September 17, 2006 09:23 PM