Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Weirdness

The last five seconds of this video are the most bizarre:

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This man exemplifies the Fox News audience. He believes that all this rubble magically happened due to faulty building construction.

I am truly living in Bizarro World. At first I thought it was harmlessly confined to my own diseased mind. But it is now apparent that it exists, objectively, outside my mind and that people like this man are in the end-stages of reality-non-observance.

The psychological phenomenon of cognitive dissonance predicts that this man will concoct ever more fantastical rationales for his view of reality.

In his reality, he is good. His actions and support for the war are a reflection of his inherent goodness. He will, therefore, interpret data to support that view. To do otherwise would cause his reality to collapse, providing him with the irrefutable proof that he has been duped. He might even have to consider that he is, indeed, quite "bad."

This would cause grave damage to his psyche. He is fighting for his emotional life. To acknowledge reality at this point would destroy his own sense of self.

People like this man --and I don't mean this jokingly-- they belong in a mental hospital. They are emotionally ill. Logic is not relevant to these people. They are very close to psychic death.

They need an intervention, of a humanitarian nature. ...As if he were a drug addict.