Scratching with Modernity
Why are some people such jerks?
Or, to borrow from our British cousins, so disagreeable?
I mean "disagreeable" in the most expansive way possible. I'm talking boors and bastards, cretins and creeps, every person labeled with a derogatory term derived from the nethers of the human anatomy.
Why did early activists in the Protestant Reformation defecate in holy water fonts and urinate on beautiful altars?
Why were the Puritans such savage jerk-offs that Roger Williams preferred to take his chances with the savage Indians?
Why did the Soviets send people to the Gulag for making jokes?
Why do extremist Muslims smash irreplaceable masterpieces of sculptures and architecture?
Why are Q-Anoners, Antifa and BLM rioters, college professors in tweed jackets, and that guy with a strong opinion on everything so annoying?
Why was Ayn Rand Ayn Rand?
Answer: They're all fundamentalists.
A balanced person can hold two contradictory thoughts in his mind, and if he can’t reconcile the contradiction, he accepts both truths anyway. Paradox doesn’t suck the wind out of his soul.
Not fundamentalists. They don't acknowledge the contradictory truths, much less try to reconcile them, and they sure as heck don't accept them.
Fundamentalists know there are good things and bad things, good guys and bad guys. Help the good things, help the good guys. Hurt the bad things, hurt the bad guys.
It’s a left-hemisphere thing. Fundamentalism seeps from the left hemisphere like jock itch mosses on a football player who has only one change of underwear.
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Eric Scheske
