Tuesday, January 20, 2009

I Agree

From a post at Coyote Blog titled Inauguration Day Party Pooper.

There is some sort of weird mass self-hypnosis going on, made even odder by the fact that a lot of people seem to know they are hypnotized, at least at some level.  I keep getting shushed as I make fun of friends’ cult behavior watching the proceedings today, as if by jiggling someone’s elbow too hard I might break the spell.  Never have I seen, in my lifetime, so much emotion invested in a politician we know nothing about.  I guess I am just missing some gene that makes the rest of humanity receptive to this kind of stuff, but just for a minute snap your fingers in front of your face and say “do I really expect a fundamentally different approach from a politician who won his spurs in …. Chicago?  Do I really think the ultimate political outsider is going to be the guy who bested everyone at their own game in the Chicago political machine?”

I fully agree with the statement that “there is some sort of weird mass self-hypnosis going on” over this whole Obama thing.  Individuals freely admit that they voted for Obama only because of a “feeling.”  Individuals also freely admit that they know nothing, nothing, about Obama.  When I attempt to rationally converse about Obama with individuals such as described above, their eyes and minds go blank.  Or, some individual utters, “But don’t you feel good about Obama being the first black president?,”  and I simply state that I have no feelings about a man’s color, because a man’s color means nothing to me at all when a man is dealing with me as a man, whether he be black, white, red, pink, purple, or green.  There is some kind of weird mass self-hypnosis going on, and snapping one’s fingers in front of their eyes is not going to make it go away.

Posted by John Venlet on 01/20 at 07:11 PM
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