At 11:23 AM 11/6/2008, you wrote:
[Marsha]
Is there a word that could be more opposite of compassion? I don't
think so. (schadenfreude)
[Arlo]
I'd say "sadism" is one step above "schadenfreude", for while
schadenfreude refers to the passive delight we get when we see
others suffer, sadists get their enjoyment from being the cause of
other's suffering.
Democrats must find a way to begin a path of empathy, it would be
too easy (and ultimately self-destructive) to follow a path of
returning in kind. Years of dealing with the most ridiculous of
vitriolic bombardment may make many a little less than enthusiastic
about treating their tormentors with compassion (as in the case with
Platt, it is somewhat difficult to take the boohoos of the
schoolyard bully seriously, and in many ways it appears to be karmic
justice), but this is the direction everyone needs to go if we ever
hope to live in a world outside of the moronic bombast of the
ideologues. But the entrenched whose power derives from Nightmare
Politics will, as you will see, continue to stir vitriol and hate
and fear from both sides of the discourse, and I see the bitter
divide in America becoming even more bitter. Americans no longer
disagree with their neighbors, the fear and hate their neighbors,
they are "the enemy", a threat, a problem, the root of all evil and
problems in the world. Sean Hannity's tagline yesterday was "America
Under Siege". Under siege? Are the 50%+ who voted Obama NOT part of
"America"? They are "an outside threat" to the "real America" of
Palin's divisive portrayal of the only real American's being those
who agree with her. Democrats like Murtha fair no better by
ridiculing those who'd disagree with him as rednecks. And it is with
this rhetoric we will likely live for quite sometime.
Arlo,
Poop on all their houses! I still do not have a connected
television. The idea is for me to look into their eyes, your eyes,
and relate to that experience. The exception is this forum, where I
think of all of you as monks.
Marsha
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The Universe is uncaused, like a net of jewels in which each is a
reflection of all the others in a fantastic, interrelated harmony without end.
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