Posted on 09/12/2011 4:02:42 PM PDT by PRePublic
I hate gry crowds!
I first read it as “gay crowd”.
The Muslim men were just doing what comes natural under the Religion of Peace (tm), which is to act like animals. The female CNN reporters were just doing what comes naturally in the plastic reality of liberalism, which is to be Useful Idiots (tm).
This is my theory:
Anyone who has observed a child, knows that they can easily slip into a world of make-believe, especially when left alone to play. I think that a life-changing event happens in the late youth/early teen period when they make a decision (not a deliberate or informed one, but every human makes it). In essence, we all decide for ourselves where our “reality” is going to be inside our minds in a reality of our own making, or whether we will acknowledge that reality is outside of us.
A person who decides that what is outside is his “reality” will constrain his actions according to external laws, rules and principles. He finds it easy to accept that morality is absolute. He finds it easy to bring his hopes and expectations into harmony with external standards. He accepts outside facts as controlling of internal thoughts.
A person who decides that he is free to live in an internal, private, reality gives himself permission to construct a reality that is only limited by his preferences and passions at the moment. External things, including facts and moral precepts become just raw material for inclusion in his internal reality. So, a person will accept some things an reject others. Attempting to force such a person to accept a rejected fact or law causes them to dodge and deflect. This reality is malleable is so many ways. The things that are acceptable on Monday can be rejected on Tuesday. This is a plastic reality.
People who live in their own plastic reality also have severe problems with morality. Because humans cannot be perfect, we all fail to meet our own standards. The occupant of the plastic reality must continually give himself a pass, for the thing he thought was wrong on Monday is the thing he wants to do on Tuesday, so some easy way is always found to excuse what he does on Tuesday. These people cannot “repent”, for they never do anything that is wrong. There is always a good reason for what they want to do.
Moreover, if a person for whom reality is external makes a bad decision based on an erroneous fact, when that is brought to his attention, and the fact corrected, he knows the basis for his actions. It is easy to acknowledge the error and move on. (This is the simple definition of “repent” in Scripture). But this is totally different for occupants of the plastic reality. When a third party takes exception to something, that is frequently taken as an affront to the person’s self-constructed identity. This is why occupants of the plastic reality often call criticism “hate speech”.
It took me a long time to understand that when a talk show host played the audio sound bite of a plastic person’s own words, that could be called “hate speech”, but that is their complaint. But this is the consequence of having to construct and maintain such a reality: any criticism of it, even if it is in the person’s own words, is destructive of the current reality, so it is “hateful” of that reality.
The occupants of the plastic reality are miserable and pitiful people, and they are very dangerous to our safety, liberty and prosperity when too many of them get into government office.
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