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Why is arrogance so much a part of blogs?

posted 10/27/2008 9:58:38 PM |
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  observed50

Like Ms Annie, my comment was also ignored so a blogger could keep the flock bleating without correction...so...the other side of her blog would look like...

Do you have secret knowledge that you think the rest of us don't have?

Do you have secret insights that somehow the rest of the nation is missing???

Criminal activity?? What are you referring to??

What in the world allows another human being to stand at a distance and accuse others with whom she has never had contact, that they 'don't even know why they are voting??" Did a god whisper in your ear secret messages that gave you revelational knowledge while the rest of us are stuck with simply weighing evidence and making up our minds??

Stand back a second...take a breath...and read your blog from a distance. Can you hear the immense arrogance implicit in such writing? Whether intended or not, for another human to assume so much of so many...something impossible for a human to ever really know...your claims are as if you have god-blessed perception. And of course, you don't...

I don't even believe Pope's when they claim that....

And then think...if you don't want to pay for '(y)our mistakes'...what does that mean?? You're going to leave if he wins? You're going to do what??

Many people supporting Obama do so because the last 8 years have seen a real destruction of this country - morally, globally, economically, politically. There is still a small segment of the US who don't see this. That is fine. But the huge crowds showing up for Obama rallies isn't because he is a criminal...it's because for the majority of Americans, he represents a break not simply with the last 8 years, but with the last 200 years plus of race, class, and other divisions, manipulated by political parties.

People don't stand in crowds of 150,000 like last week in St Louis, or 100,000 in Denver yesterday, because they love standing in crowds. They know something is in the air...something is about to shift. We are the edge of a monumental historical event. And for so many, it is like a nightmare that is ending. Not just Bush and group...a long dysfunctional history within the world's most complicated democracy that has a pretty face, but a deeply decayed underbelly.

I'm sure for that small segment of the US that still wants to believe Bush is doing a good job, it is like a nightmare coming. I'm sorry for that...but I'll be glad to help you get through it. Let me know if warm milk and cookies is all ya need...

I feel bad for her, really. She joins a group for whom such outlandish claims abound about how insightful they are, but all these millions of people...they are blinded...stupid...you know well by now the pack's labels.

arrogant - 1.Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance.
2. Marked by or arising from a feeling or assumption of one's superiority toward others


There can be no doubt that human beings are blinded all the time. We don't act in our self-interests, but often believing we do. Smoking is great until you're walkin around with an oxygen bottle. Supporting war is great until we're walking in a loved one's funeral. Blaming the poor for everything is fun, until we've lost a job, had a serious illness, and now are too ashamed to seek help.

But how do all these sage, wise people in the labeling pack, how do they all know what is going to happen since they keep tellin everyone Obama is an empty suit? No experience. Not enough trail to say much of anything?

If we can't know enough to predict he'd be a good president...what is the logic that doesn't permits that sense of things but then comes along and says with great aplomb and pundit arrogance..."He's gonna take the country inta the crapper! You'll all be sorry you will! He's gonna destroy this great nation so few respect any longer!!"

If ya can't predict greatness, or goodness, because too little information, how can ya predict evil?? One person called him evil! HUH??!! Evil?


"And he'll git yer little dog, TOTO, too!"



Here pack, here pack... c'mon c'mon...c'mon...come git em...


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Comments:
mailorderannie

Oct 27 @ 10:06PM  
They know something is in the air...something is about to shift. We are the edge of a monumental historical event.

I got goosebumps when I read this.

I heard Bobby Kennedy speak about 2 weeks before he was killed...that's the last time a politician gave me hope...until NOW.

And as usual, you handled this situation so much more eloquently than I did. You get a kudo!
lazareth

Oct 27 @ 10:14PM  
out of ALL of the political blogs and posts in the forums, this is by far the most sensible I have read. No matter who you intend to vote for, all of the mud slinging meaningless crap means NOTHING, because the majority have already made up their minds as to who they are voting for. As they have every right to do... without being called a "rethuglican, dictard, or libtard" or what ever the "flavor " of the day it is.
Thank you for posting a sensible blog.......
redtigr

Oct 27 @ 10:28PM  
Fabulous...

I think I love you...

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin.


~ Bob Dylan

~*~
observed50

Oct 27 @ 10:41PM  
Annie...if ya git a little closer...I'll give ya goosebumps on goosebumps.

Ya know, I wasn't trying to handle it more eloquently. There is such awful logic in so many of these blogs, I think it useful to keep lifting up the lack of it, or the derailment of it. Logic is a tool to help us build better communication. When it's so badly misused, it doesn't only stop effective communication, but it distorts the communicative space. Now we have to answer to the illogic instead of inquire with each other on real issues and real questions.

Laz> Thanks for the compliment. I keep thinking there is a way to discuss the world and our differences and do it with delight. I know it's possible because I do it all the time. It's just harder to do here with the anonymity and safety of a web site's distance from each other which unleashes that side of the animal most parents tried to beat out of us.

Tigr> I love you too. But let's not tell anyone. It'll be our secret
Tiramisu4u

Oct 27 @ 11:00PM  
Awesome!!!! This one I read to the end...KUDOS!!
SallyF

Oct 27 @ 11:20PM  
Observed, you 'nailed' it!
Now we have to answer to the illogic instead of inquire with each other on real issues and real questions.
imlost2

Oct 28 @ 12:57AM  
I donno Biden seems to be able to foretell the future within six months he says Obama will be tested with an International Crisis. So maybe all don't know what is going to happen, just some. tc Lost
TallBlonde1

Oct 28 @ 3:20PM  
Great blog!

I had one of the cowards here in Kentucky write to me asking why I didn't think Palin was a 'star" - so I asked her to tell me why she thinks she is. For days now all I've heard are crickets and it turns out the coward didn't even read my email. Typical Rep as far as I'm concerned - make a snarky comment that has nothing to do with anything and run.
observed50

Oct 28 @ 3:46PM  
Snarky? Is that a regional word? Out here we might say 'corny' or 'beefy', sometimes we refer to someone being a pig...

But what's a snark?
missliss78

Oct 28 @ 10:46PM  
So, I'm a little late in getting to this blog....darn it.

Great blog, observed!

You nailed it. If there is one thing I am sick of from all of the political blogs being posted, it is the conservatives who are calling the dems "stupid," "blind," oh shoot, you know.....all the crap you already talked about. But let one liberal point out an error made by one of them & there's a gazillion excuses for it & "so is that all you can call me out on." It's gotten to the point that I don't even read their ridiculous blogs anymore...but there are a few who keep making totally lame comments on every single political blog posted & I do come across those. They just don't "get" it.

When I read this one line here
He's gonna destroy this great nation so few respect any longer
the thought that ran through my mind was that America has so very little respect anymore worldwide. I listen to what people from other countries say....it's a known fact, America is not held in the high esteem that it used to be....especially before the last 8 years.

Sorry....didn't mean to get on your blog & rant.....here's to ya!

observed50

Oct 28 @ 10:56PM  
You can git on and rant anytime ya want. Shoot...what's the purpose of having an open door if ya can't rant.

Other than of course...my quick escape!
KnittinKitten

Oct 29 @ 11:12PM  
missliss...one of the hardest truths I had to face this summer in all my travels, was the cold, hard fact that America truly no longer holds the place of esteem that it once did in all my years of world travel. It hurt. It hurt a lot!.

However, I have a feeling that with the help of Observed and others with the same talents to assist people to listen and hear, we might gain back our status in the not too distant future.

Mark, I'm afraid if I praise you again, people are going to think we have a secret love affair going on.....Well, they just are not privy to what a wonderful friend you are to me, so I'm praising you and your words, once again.

Fondly,
KK
Peabianjay

Oct 29 @ 11:35PM  
How refreshing to read a well thought out idea and the ability to communicate it!

Whether you agree, or disagree, with a blog of mine (only 1, so far), I'd be more than happy to read it, and post it and maybe even respond to it.

I'll add my Kudo to your quickly growing stack of 'm.
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Why is arrogance so much a part of blogs?