Posted on 12/04/2023 7:15:11 AM PST by bitt
There is a little known, and less understood, mental affliction, which I will call transfixion. It is to the mind what setting is to concrete. When freshly mixed with water, concrete is malleable. Once it sets, however, it hardens irreversibly and can no longer be reshaped, or corrected, unless it is cut or broken. The transfixed mind is like that.
Before you go leafing through your DSM (psychiatry’s diagnostic manual), don’t bother; transfixion is not there. It is, however, very real. One can observe it when attempting to reason with any committed leftist. The condition is common and has been on display for months in some videotaped Q-and-A sessions with people such as Ben Shapiro at a few college events.
Essentially, the symptoms of mental transfixion include complete immunity to reason and an absolute refusal to acknowledge facts, no matter how obvious, no matter how clearly explained. The transfixed mind begins with its desired conclusion, adds a strong dose of violent emotion mixed with loudly chanted slogans, and then works toward that irrational conclusion with the tenacity of a bulldog.
Examples of this disease include the persistence of claims by the left that the American economy is doing great, despite the financial hardships being suffered by low-income working-class households. It includes the denial that violent crime in cities governed by Democrats far exceeds that of other cities. Leftists are now even denying that Hamas committed any atrocities on October 7, claiming that the horrific films recorded by the terrorists themselves are forgeries produced by artificial intelligence technology. Perhaps most foolishly, they deny that Islamists publicly murder homosexuals in Gaza and in Islamic-dominated countries — in none of which can they identify even one openly gay couple. It is foolish, because some homosexual Americans might venture into the snake pit with
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Unfortunately the old Teddy Roosevelt quote seems applicable here:
“If you’ve got them by the ^%$#@, their hearts and minds will follow.”
Good read
“The reason is never the reason. The reason is always the Revolution”.
You can’t argue a leftist out of support for whatever cause, because he’s lying: his support of that cause is because he thinks it will advance socialism.
You have to discover the real, underlying purpose, for which the “cause of the moment” is just a means to that end.
politics is like religion,
for those ho believe, no explanation is necessary
for those who don’t, no explanation will ever be good enough...
If a solution works, then we don’t fix it and we definitely will argue with anyone who tells us otherwise … even if they’re right and we’re wrong.
I think that’s just human nature, but perhaps it’s even more innate to being human. For example, have you heard about “Original Antigenic Sin”?
From Whikipedia,
“… also known as antigenic imprinting, the Hoskins effect, or immunological imprinting, is the propensity of the immune system to preferentially use immunological memory based on a previous infection when a second slightly different version of that foreign pathogen is encountered.Same thing. See a problem and use the same solution we learned the first time over and over again whether it works or not.This leaves the immune system "trapped" by the first response it has made to each antigen, and unable to mount potentially more effective responses during subsequent infections.”
Whether it’s mental/emotional “transfixion” or original antigenic imprinting, apparently, being stubborn is in our DNA.
Gazans must see their entire world destroyed, with all the true believers dead, before the rump remainder might understand that they must change their ways or die.
Essentially, the symptoms of mental transfixion include complete immunity to reason and an absolute refusal to acknowledge facts, no matter how obvious, no matter how clearly explained.
Essentially, the symptoms of mental transfixion include complete immunity to reason and an absolute refusal to acknowledge facts, no matter how obvious, no matter how clearly explained.
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