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You didn't include your OWN comments. Nevertheless...
Article is a bit TL and over-intellectualized. "Evil" isn't always sexy or glamorous ...only SOMETIMES and most often in a way other than the author's implications. So the beginning premise is false.
As to the "sometimes," well, they probably fall into two rather basic categories.
1) The unusual. Ever hear people complain about how the news is always bad? Here's the deal; your life is not news. Neither is mine. "News" is what is different and unusual in the world. If you get up and go to work (or whatever) and come home and nothing happened, how is that news? It isn't. The things we see in daily life have already filled our senses. When something different/odd/crazy comes along it attracts our attention. Like people staring at a car accident, though, it doesn't mean we LIKE it: sometimes people confuse "attraction" meaning that which commands our attention versus "attraction" meaning a fondness for. Very different things. This so-called attraction to evil is usually the former rather than the latter. When it is the latter, it probably falls under this:
2)Attraction of power. Humans are basically herd animals, like it or not. Maybe pack animals is a better term? We have an instinct to look for and follow the alpha leader. In this case, "evil" takes the form of a person with perceived power - "animal magnetism" - a command-presence if you will. Here again, any attraction does not really come from the fact that this person of power is bad or wrong in some moral sense; in fact that is kind of irrelevant because the attraction comes from that alpha-male aire that is projected. The magnetic personality can just as well be Gandhi as Hitler, human nature being what it is, though, we don't see too many Gandhis.
Anyway, you asked for my thoughts so there you are.
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BTW, Bob insists I pass along his apologies, and note that he did not intend to be offensive. He intended to play off of my insinuation that President Obama was an alien (in the sense of "he doesn't live on the same planet as the rest of us"). He was trying to be funny - it just didn't work out that way.
You didn't include your OWN comments. Nevertheless...
ReplyDeleteArticle is a bit TL and over-intellectualized. "Evil" isn't always sexy or glamorous ...only SOMETIMES and most often in a way other than the author's implications. So the beginning premise is false.
As to the "sometimes," well, they probably fall into two rather basic categories.
1) The unusual. Ever hear people complain about how the news is always bad? Here's the deal; your life is not news. Neither is mine. "News" is what is different and unusual in the world.
If you get up and go to work (or whatever) and come home and nothing happened, how is that news? It isn't. The things we see in daily life have already filled our senses. When something different/odd/crazy comes along it attracts our attention. Like people staring at a car accident, though, it doesn't mean we LIKE it: sometimes people confuse "attraction" meaning that which commands our attention versus "attraction" meaning a fondness for. Very different things. This so-called attraction to evil is usually the former rather than the latter. When it is the latter, it probably falls under this:
2)Attraction of power. Humans are basically herd animals, like it or not. Maybe pack animals is a better term? We have an instinct to look for and follow the alpha leader. In this case, "evil" takes the form of a person with perceived power - "animal magnetism" - a command-presence if you will. Here again, any attraction does not really come from the fact that this person of power is bad or wrong in some moral sense; in fact that is kind of irrelevant because the attraction comes from that alpha-male aire that is projected. The magnetic personality can just as well be Gandhi as Hitler, human nature being what it is, though, we don't see too many Gandhis.
Anyway, you asked for my thoughts so there you are.
---
BTW, Bob insists I pass along his apologies, and note that he did not intend to be offensive. He intended to play off of my insinuation that President Obama was an alien (in the sense of "he doesn't live on the same planet as the rest of us"). He was trying to be funny - it just didn't work out that way.
So, now I've covered that little chore too. :)