Why don't you descend from that ivory tower you occupy and ask Afghan women about "the Mind of the American?"
Or the Jews who were liberated from Nazi concentration camps?
You don't even attempt to disguise your contempt for your fellow citizens.
It must irritate you to no end that your lame arguments that America is responsible for the 9/11 attacks is meeting with scorn by all but the looney left and the even loonier libertarians. Lurking behind comments like yours is some kind of perverse satisfaction that cretins flying planes into buildings gave Americans what they deserve.
Is it worse--or more dangerous--to live in a somnolent metaphoric reality, going nowhere and blaming others?
Even as you spit on the "metaphoric reality" of terrorism inflicted on this country, young men are about to die defending you against that which you deride.
I don't know why they bother.
Well if, in fact, contempt is seeping into my heart I must do something about it. I must root it out somehow. Perhaps I should start by ignoring all the contemptible things I see and hear going on around me. Things like this:
"...Animals don't possess the capability for self-reflection, nor do they change behavior unless they are forced to.... But animals are animals...."
I'm not a naturally contemptuous person. I guess the Real World is more difficult for a simple soul like me to navigate than my more sophisticated brethren....