I sometime wonder at the ways foolish people have chosen to fill in the gaps in their web, the gaps in their understanding. My coworker told me of a man who was interviewed during the Hurricane Harvey crisis, saying something to the avail of “I might be a racist, a this, a that, but when disaster strikes I’m the person out saving people.”
To that I wonder where came the decided racism and how it is reconciled with the readily apparent heroism. Why do good men adopt dumb ideas when in fact their heart would indicate otherwise? Is it a lack of ideologies which build from the ground up these heroic ideals and leave the bullshit of past generations to fester well below ground in the muck of their histories?
I have to laugh at the regurgitated phrases, the clique-based and cliched designations that say a whole peoples can be summed up as all having