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Deep thoughts
Mar. 23rd, 2012 09:05 amQuote of the day, from the esteemed Mr. George Hrab's latest podcast (Here's the link, about 48 minutes in). I have snipped a couple of direct name references, but somehow, I feel this should apply to furries, and sci-fi fans, and, well, everyone. It just rang... true somehow. Whenever we all hate on someone making an ass of themselves for the media... think of this.
" [...] This is true of almost anything, where the the people that are vehement, the people that are posting, the people that are painting themselves the colours of the football team - you know, in zero degree weather - do not necessarily represent the vast majority of people that enjoy football, or like [the band] Yes, or like black and white movies. You know, the people that are vehement, the people that are vocal that make the press are often the ones that are the most extreme - that don't necessarily represent the larger majority of how people are or how people behave. A community can get swept up in the furor and the feeling righteous of a particular situation [...] .
It is a wonderful feeling to feel justifiably angry. It's a strange thing that we humans, I think, all share. When that guy cuts you off and is being a douche-nozzle, your anger - your justifiable anger - in a strange way feels really good. And I think a lot of people look for justifiable means of angry expression. And in many unhealthy ways they find it in places or with people [...] where they can feel righteous, they can feel... ooooh, I am standing up for the morals of this community, I am representing Jeebuz in the right way. And it doesn't excuse it, it doesn't say that it's right, it doesn't mean that you still shouldn't tamp that down, but it's understandable. And in[...] many a community that might share something like that these feelings can get whipped up and the fervour that is associated with it is a feeling of righteous anger. [...] Communities like feeling angry for a legitimate reason [...] like to feel angry if they feel their anger is justified.And unfortunately that justification line is burred often, and when you introduce non-critical thinking that justification like gets even more blurred and you end up having people that can call [them] an evil little thing. That does not reflect directly to what [they] are.
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" [...] This is true of almost anything, where the the people that are vehement, the people that are posting, the people that are painting themselves the colours of the football team - you know, in zero degree weather - do not necessarily represent the vast majority of people that enjoy football, or like [the band] Yes, or like black and white movies. You know, the people that are vehement, the people that are vocal that make the press are often the ones that are the most extreme - that don't necessarily represent the larger majority of how people are or how people behave. A community can get swept up in the furor and the feeling righteous of a particular situation [...] .
It is a wonderful feeling to feel justifiably angry. It's a strange thing that we humans, I think, all share. When that guy cuts you off and is being a douche-nozzle, your anger - your justifiable anger - in a strange way feels really good. And I think a lot of people look for justifiable means of angry expression. And in many unhealthy ways they find it in places or with people [...] where they can feel righteous, they can feel... ooooh, I am standing up for the morals of this community, I am representing Jeebuz in the right way. And it doesn't excuse it, it doesn't say that it's right, it doesn't mean that you still shouldn't tamp that down, but it's understandable. And in[...] many a community that might share something like that these feelings can get whipped up and the fervour that is associated with it is a feeling of righteous anger. [...] Communities like feeling angry for a legitimate reason [...] like to feel angry if they feel their anger is justified.And unfortunately that justification line is burred often, and when you introduce non-critical thinking that justification like gets even more blurred and you end up having people that can call [them] an evil little thing. That does not reflect directly to what [they] are.
This entry was first posted to my Google+ at https://plus.google.com/u/0/115523172430042210660/posts/aLHnWw9TEVn.