kyounge1956
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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An odd thought struck me today, perhaps prompted by the debt ceiling impasse and the massacre in Norway. I wonder if there is some kind of self-destructive urge behind these and similar events. Intransigent politicians, of whatever party, who would rather precipitate a default than try to find a workable compromise, must know that a default will only make our country's financial problems worse. People who commit mass murder in the name of some cause or other must, unless they have completely lost contact with reality, realize that they are creating enemies for their cause. Such events seem to be becoming more frequent, or maybe we just hear about them more in this age of instantaneous communication.
What brings people to take such counterproductive actions? In my bleaker moments, I could even suspect that humankind as a species is in the grip of a self-destructive urge.
What brings people to take such counterproductive actions? In my bleaker moments, I could even suspect that humankind as a species is in the grip of a self-destructive urge.