The Ideologically Pure Ruin US Politics

[sibelian]

114. Ooooooh, so you DID know!

Well, maybe you aren't such a thicko after all! I wonder why you kept saying "please explain it to me, I'm so thick..." and stuff like that. Maybe you were just being a silly goose, hm?

Now what's happened here, you see, is that you've chosen a monolithic, single-factor explanation for a process that requires more than one factor to occur.

You're oversensitive to the fear factor - it doesn't work without the capacity for self-sacrifice being exploited simultaneously and these are two different processes. Being afraid of the farmer returning doesn't explain the pigs needing the food, does it? How does their having the food prevent the farmer coming back?! It doesn't! They have to connect the fear to the capacity for self-sacrifice. How? By simply declaring that they are connected! THAT'S the problem. Fear alone isn't enough.

Making people afraid of things in order to get stuff out of them only works if people already have a better nature to be exploited as well as a tendency to react fearfully. Control through fear only works by masquerading as compromise.

You have arrived all by yourself at the conclusion that sometimes exploitative processes masquerade as compromise! And that is the exact reason that one must learn how to stick to one's principles! Bravo!

So there you go, maybe you're brighter than you think!