I find myself lately losing more respect for many of my fellow men. I recently posted a photo displaying an aborted 11 week fetus to express the evils of abortion, even at the 1st trimester level. (Distasteful? —maybe. Brutal?—defiantly!)Now you must understand that the fetus photo really isn't anything more than a simple shock tactic. I find shock tactics both amazing and appalling. It is really just a primitive manipulation upon people. You take something resembling a human form, pervert it, and then wait for the emotional feedback that will undoubtedly surge, without restraint, from the diarrheatic mouths of your fellow man. The reaction I received for the picture was laughable-- the reaction I got from people being pro-choice that is. (I didn't even know they were pro-choice until posting the picture if that tells you anything!) The reclusive pro-choicers attacked me aggressively—violently! Not because they thought the picture was distasteful, (Which is an argument I would have understood perfectly.) but because they thought by my very endorsement of the photo I was some how inflicting upon their personal freedom to disagree with me. Thus, their true implication in argument only served to inflict upon my freedom to disagree with them. (Hypocritical?) It is silly really-- and conflictive. I find a lot of radical liberals to be almost Nazi-like in their rhetoric. They create this double-standard where they are allowed to be judgmental, while accusing everyone else of passing judgment upon them. They cross their hearts with the very notion that they themselves are the defenders of free-thinking, while if a free thought was to pass side-ways against their own personal good-taste it is dismissed violently and antagonized. So therefore free-thought is allowed so long as it is chastised by the chains of neutrality. (Nothing is really free about that sort of free-thought in my opinion.) I think the real reason pro-choicers were offended by the picture I posted is because it conflicted upon something they held dearly to support their identities. They; like most weak minded people, had an emotional response to seeing a dead baby in the fetal state, however that emotional response conflicted against their held identities as a liberal pro-choicer. They were taken from a place where their held beliefs on abortion is a place of high civil-agreement and pro-humanity, to a place where it is anti-humanity and supportive of civil oppression. It was displayed basically as a perversion on the human form and condition-- which is conflictive with the liberal thought that pro-choice is pro-woman and pro-freedom. The shock value of the picture forces one to consider the fact that the personal freedom may be at the expense of enslaving, mutilating and oppressing the very innocent of innocent. (Maybe even that is truly anti-woman, and a perversion on femininity in its most pure form within female function and beauty?) You see, while I was taking the violent attacks from what I thought were "friends" it was revealed to me over and over by these so-called "friends" that I was demoralizing a sliver of their personal identity! (Which may be the real revealer in my opinion?) They were not attacking me for offending some high moral standard they held, or for even the defense of social-rights. It's far more selfish than that!
You see, I blew a hole in something they built a kin to themselves. They identify themselves as "liberal" or "pro-choice", so if you were to approach them with anything that may offer a logical flaw in that identity they must become violent! (To this sort of liberal calling out their flaws is as good as walking up to an African-American and telling them they are wrong for being black.) This sort of close-minded extremism has the very face of it they painted with the concept of “what it is to be liberal.” (Conceptual Liberals if you will—very shy of actual Social-liberalism.)
Taking a shot at their liberalism is like knocking the legs out from under them. It is no longer a political or social discussion, it is a personal attack, because these people really don't have any personality, or personal beliefs-- they are their beliefs!
If you take their liberalism away it arouses fear, because they have no purpose or identity they have built themselves outside of these frail, conflictive and apathetic political agendas. Anyone would become argument and violent to protect the fiber of their beings! So I hardly can blame them for the violent attitude.
Now, this is all a stirring argument for why I firmly believe in building the frameworks of your life upon something a bit more objective and permanent than a contemporary political stand.Which brings us back to why shock tactics are interesting? It is a manipulation of the emotions. And for someone liberal in this way emotions are the center of their rhetoric. People who are easily controlled by their emotions and swayed by their impulses are weak minded. They don't have a firm, objective and logical stand on any topic. Their minds don’t reason out pros and cons to deduce the obvious and most productive stance-- their emotions do. Unfortunately emotions change, sway and are hardly ever objective. (Anything ruled by impulsion and fear is simply subjective.) Thus these people are weak minded and impulse driven, thus I'm appalled at the idea of them ever having any social say in any decision that would affect the rest of the “free-thinking” world. People who can not think objectively, and allow the war over their own personal identity to become more important than that of the war for human-rights should not be making decisions for anyone else! (At the risk of sounding a bit Fascist, I dare to say; sometimes they shouldn’t even be trusted with themselves.) They lack social empathy. They are simply to internal and selfish when it comes down to it! With that said they are weak minded, and it is easy to arouse fear in them, which is technically not a bad this, at least for me.
I firmly believe that all men are created by God, and therefore have the potential to have a use in this world.
In closing, God created the world men with use... the world created me useful idiots.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
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