Thursday, July 25, 2013

Get Off Yr Pendulum

When one becomes injured in some way by an extreme manifestation of some ideology, one tends to swing in the opposite direction, clinging to the inverted values in opposition to the offending ideology, imagining that somehow doing the exact opposite of the fools that did the harm is the path to absolute truth and justice, without understanding that it is the very act of clinging unconditionally to any single idea that is responsible for the bulk of human folly.

Such are the perils of swinging about too heavily one's own rigid ideology.