A little heavy for Saturday morning perhaps, but I love it when people question the very fabric of our society and the decisions we make. All of which got me to thinking about this odd trait of humans to form associations around bad ideas, and that, in turn, led me to think about the nature of cults. After all, can there be a more ridiculous idea than becoming a trained lapdog to some modern-day messiah? Yet, how does one go from being a go-along-to-get-along kind of person one day to lining up for a fatal dose of poison, thoughtfully flavored with grape Kool-Aid, the next? Or signing up to become a gunman willing to kill or be killed in a foreign adventure in support of a half-baked idea thats cast as somehow being in the national interest, when even a cursory examination would tell you its not? Both of those examples are in diametric opposition to self-preservation, the most fundamental of all human instincts. - David Galland
Posted on: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 02:27:39 +0000
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