Hard headedness is our worst enemy. Just save your breath.

How do you reason with someone who is caught up in hysteria and paranoia? What truths or logic can be used to get your point across? Especially when no fact or positive proof works with them. They almost seem mentally and physically deaf and in the irreversible grip of insanity. Sometimes you just have to walk away and let them stew in their own venom. Hopefully a good slap in the face might bring them back to consciousness. But, don’t hold your breath.

None the less, the above condition seems to exist in some people when discussing politics or religion. No matter what reasoning you use, some folks appear to be possessed by a hyper dogma that defies any proof or set of facts. It’s like talking to a chicken with its head cut off. Just flutter and flailing. Just get out of the way. They are headed for self-destruction.

So, just do as Jesus suggested, don’t cast your pearls before swine. Shake the dust off your shoes and leave. You’ve done what you can say or do.

The whole scenario describes people who resist trusting the knowledge of wise council. “I know what I know and no one else will ever change my mind.” This is the thinking of people caught up in suspicion and fear. Paranoia. Hysteria. People not wanting to know the truth or other’s perspectives. Absolute willful ignorance. Education is evil and it takes too much time away from blustering and bloviation.

So, just step away from trouble. Do what you got to do and enjoy life. God bless America.

ThinkAboutIt...

It is most difficult to understand how political and religious fervor blinds one to the truth. Setting up a firewall between rational thinking and dogma. A partition holding back lucidity away from muddy thinking. Ignorance resisting learning. “What, me worry?”

CRA 2012