Monsters ARE insanely vicious. bttt
The Care and Feeding of Media Monsters
"....Liberals, of course, want us to understand the terrorists. But one of the first things I learned in my psychoanalytic training is that real empathy has nothing to do with reinforcing someone's delusions just to make them feel better. Rather, it must involve things like confrontation, interpretation, clarification, etc.
"So the most empathic thing you could do for a bin Laden [type] -- for the whole Islamic world, for that matter -- would be to confront them with the truth of which they are so desperately in need, for a mind deprived of truth still "needs to eat," but it will feed on lies, which in turn creates a monster.
"You do not flatter them with the monstrous lie -- as did Secretary of State Clinton the other day -- that "you folks have your politically motivated extremists and so do we, with that tea partier who murdered all those people the other day."
"Lies are monster food. All monsters feed on lies, and a monster is simply a living lie. They are the lie made flesh.
"Hitler could not have been the monster he was without a steady diet of outrageous lies with no connection whatsoever to reality. Stalin, Mao, Castro, Arafat, Pol Pot, and all the rest of the 20th century Monster Club -- all were soulless zombies because of their fidelity to the Lie which created them.
"In this regard, you can certainly see how ideology becomes a substitute religion rooted in the satanic eucharist (or "dyscharist") of ingesting the Lie. Once the liar is in place, he needs a steady diet of more lies in order to maintain himself. Conversely, he will respond to truth in the way a vampire reacts to garlic or Obama to media scrutiny. ..."
I find Dr. Godwin's idea of "mind parasites," how they "work," and their pernicious effects on persons and societies extraordinarily illuminating.
I concur with Diamond's assessment: "When people like Alan Colmes spew out their insane accusations they are really just revealing what [is] in their own hearts."
RE: Mr. Colmes, the following observations come to mind:
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. We can only see what we are; if we misbehave, we suspect others. — Ralph Waldo EmersonPlus —
It will be generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature are among its worst and least pleasant examples. — Charles DickensThank you ever so much, dear Matchett-PI, for the link to "Gagdad Bob's" outstanding article.
Around 20 years or so ago I called a radio talk show hosted by Alan Colmes, who was ranting about abortion "rights". Don't ask me why I did that, I don't know what I was thinking. Anyway, I just asked him about when he himself begin to exist as a human being. Instead of just answering the question in a rational manner, he began literally screaming in a hideous, high-ptiched falsetto voice, pretending to be a pre-born child, in a mocking way, begging for his life: "Please don't kill me! Please don't kill me!", and hung up the phone.
Vampires, of course are fictional, but you are right. I realized then that these people are very real, very insane monsters.
Cordially,