Matt - You as much as anyone here should know that not everything or perhaps hardly anything is as it seems yet you repeatedly hold up the torch of modern science and most specifically the field of psychology as if we have not only arrived at Peak Oil but also arrived at the "peak" of understanding ourselves.
If anything we are infants attempting to walk for the first time.
This applies equally well across the board....Religion - Science - Politics etc etc.
An alien could watch the last 100 years in ultra fast forward and come away wondering just how long ago did we come down from the trees.......
If you want me to go along with the scientific position only then I will use the evolution card and suggest that MY TYPE is so evolved as to be beyond any current attempt to understand us muahahahahah
I wanted to and still do spread the word of PO beyond these halls.
You suggested that I also/or only wanted politial power......
Yeah I want the political power that surviving PO and being one of the ecovillage gardeners brings.....
"Ah yes we will control all food and then we will be kings!!"
"KINGS I SAY!!!"
I received a few credits in psychology as well my friend yet after a semester or two I was left feeling as if I had been shown about 1/10th of the pieces to a very big puzzle and that this was all of the pieces we have found to date.
How you walked away believing this stuff like a religion I will never know as you otherwise appear to be quite the open mind.
Everytime you start the human monkey talk I go "pffft!" right before I start to "shine" and fling dung at other peakers
Stick with the legal angle bro - "they" only made psychology part of the curriculum as "filler" or so accountants knew when they were about to fly out of a 11th story window
The collectivism of the Sheeple and the ignorance of people en masse I understand yet any attempt to apply these templates to all individuals is a grievous error IMHO.
Will you explain your own political ambitions now please?
Denial and rationalization I can understand.
Being immersed in other subjects to the point that you never really give some subjects a good look I can understand.
Alex seems to have the charisma to lead yet what do you imagine existed first???
The charisma or the leader?
The peoples desire for a leader or the leader?
The "need" for a leader or a leader?
Dig deep into that thought and you may see an error in the modern view of how our mind works.
Alex is in a position to capitolize on his popularity and may ultimately be pursuing political power yet it seems way over simplified to believe that all Alex ever wanted was to be king/politician/ruler.
If hatred for the current regime is the only prerequisite then everyone would be a politician sooner or later.....
The main goal is not power it is so the power will no longer be abused!!
Ya know its like we dont wanna fucking do it but these incompetent lil bitches screw up so bad that we have to do it!
They force anyone with sense to attempt to wrest the power away from them before we find ourselves bombing the hell out of someone, being bombed the hell out of ourselves or quite likely both.
Furthermore do you reckon our Past leaders and current neocon leaders were/are all 100% mentally stable creatures?
Do you reckon our shining examples of politicians to date are a somehow sufficient enough sample for the Scientific Psychologists to come to a final conclusion about anyone who seeks political power?
I know you see where I am going with this as we are there already.
Thats just a few of the alternative ways to view it man.
Seeing the situation we presently find ourselves in - alternative views might be the only thing that gets any of us beyond that which we are about to receive and you know that is true.
Can I get an Amen my Brothers and Sisters?!
I dedicate the following song to Alex Jones.
Preachers of Rock
"Occams razor makes the cutting clean" for most sheeple....
It is easier to enslave a people that wish to remain free then it is to free a people who wish to remain enslaved.