What you have observed is no doubt representative – a very sad and worrying fact. However, there must be something more to it than “partly an identity problem, and partly irrational intellectualism”. For that does not, in itself, seem to explain the focus on evil. In the past, silly intellectuals with or without identity problems have believed in all sorts of silly things like spiritualism, telepathy, Esperanto, Freud, Jung, muesli, flower power, yogis, and murderous totalitarian tyranny. Moreoever, generally, only a small proportion of all irrationality descends to the level of insanity. Now it seems to be murderous totalitarian tyranny all the way down, and insanity is mainstream.
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Re: Immigrants
Welcome, Liberal Iranian.
What you have observed is no doubt representative – a very sad and worrying fact. However, there must be something more to it than “partly an identity problem, and partly irrational intellectualism”. For that does not, in itself, seem to explain the focus on evil. In the past, silly intellectuals with or without identity problems have believed in all sorts of silly things like spiritualism, telepathy, Esperanto, Freud, Jung, muesli, flower power, yogis, and murderous totalitarian tyranny. Moreoever, generally, only a small proportion of all irrationality descends to the level of insanity. Now it seems to be murderous totalitarian tyranny all the way down, and insanity is mainstream.