interstellar_donkey's Journal: contimplate

The more the irrational extremists speak out with increasingly crazy statements, the more the average person will be inclined to move towards the other side. So we make a correction and start heading back towards the middle. The only problem is, that pendulum doesn't stop at the middle.

I first learned of this phenomenon at day care, sometime before the first grade. A chum of mind had a miniature motorized 'arcade' style game. When you turned it on, you got to 'drive' a tiny plastic car along a moving belt painted with road scenes. Being interested in cars, I spent quite a bit of time playing this game.

Eventually, I discovered that it didn't matter if you stayed on the road or not. I spent hours moving the car back and forth, completely oblivious to whatever illustrated obstacles I was supposed to be avoiding. I was hooked, and hypnotized.

It was years later that I discovered that the hours playing this game in a self induced daze was subconsciously shaping my impressions of extreme political thought.

Think about it.

Seriously, think about it. It's one of those things that if you think about it long enough, it will start to sink in. It will start to make sense in ways far more profound then any foolish 'logic' or 'reasoning' that we use on a day to day base during our typical auto-pilot lives.

If you don't get it, you're not thinking hard enough. You have to think harder. Drink a beer, and think some more. Punch yourself in the jaw so much that you break it, get sent to the hospital and take the weeks of solitary recovery to contemplate it. Afterwards, you'll never want to punch yourself in the jaw any more. Or go to the hospital.