Fear to Anger, Anger to Hate, Hate Leads to the Dark Side
As an advocate for reason, clear headedness, and critical thinking I must warn you that this post is going to be a bit of a gripe. The Dilemma Social gathering networks… what are they good for? Mostly a headache and a big fat waste of time, if you ask me. Still, since I live away from home it’s one of the easiest ways to keep in contact with friends and family members back stateside. Yet sometimes a friend of a friend, or somebody who I thought was a friend, will write the most god-awful diatribe—spouting off at the mouth as if their opinion was god’s gift to mankind—and going on and on about politics or religion—without actually having a inkling of a clue about what they are talking about. Although I try and ignore such self conceitedness, every once in a while there is a real doozy of a comment that I can’t just turn a blind eye to—because it’s so damn ignorant that it bleeds offensiveness. Just the other day I saw a post which horrified me. It was full of anger, rage, and a...