Tom Naughton skriver om pajningen av ex-veganen Lierre Keith.
Mycket ord och upprördhet över en, trots allt, rätt trivial händelse i värlsdhistorien…
Behållningen av hans bloggning är dock att han använder citat ur Eric Hoffers bok “The True Believer”. Lika gott att erkänna att jag inte tidigare var bekant med Hoffer, men jag är beredd att åtgärda den bristen i min bildning.
Jag rippar helt enkelt Hoffer-citaten från Naughtons blogg, de är väl värda att begrunda, jag behöver inte skriva mer…
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all unifying agents.
In order to be effective a doctrine must not be understood, but has to be believed in. We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance.
All active mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world. They do this by claiming that the ultimate and absolute truth is already embodied in their doctrine and that there is no truth or certitude outside it. The facts on which the true believer bases his conclusions must not be derived from his experience or observation, but from holy writ.
Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect. They know that basic human problems can have no final solutions, that our freedom, justice, equality, etc. are far from absolute, and that the good life is compounded of half measures, compromises, lesser evils, and gropings toward the perfect. The rejection of approximations and the insistence on absolutes are the manifestation of a nihilism that loathes freedom, tolerance, and equity.
It is the true believer’s ability to shut his eyes and stop his ears to facts which in his own mind deserve never to be seen nor heard which is the source of his unequalled fortitude and constancy. He cannot be frightened by danger, nor disheartened by obstacles, nor baffled by contradictions, because he denies their existence.
*/Rubriken; Tage Danielsson, Tankar från roten 1994
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