Marie Claude, It's a Great Pity

Submitted by Sofa Sogood (United States), Apr 21, 2008 at 23:06

(I'm flattered that you think I'm Marianna, your answers to her intelligent and well-sourced comments are hardly more than sarcasm.)

You exemplify what I was talking about.

To you, it's only America and Israel because they are what you have focused your hate and envy on. Neither ever attempted or desired to be your "masters." You don't know the difference between honest achievement and force.

The "thank you" you feel too superior to render is not just for what you demean as "goods," but for your protection during the Cold War that we U.S. citizens paid for with our taxes, and for the many thousands of U.S. lives that were spent defending Europeans from their own violence and wars. Instead of "thanks" you give a stab in the back -- and feel self-righteous about that as well. Incapable of appreciating good will, you instead only hate, envy and hope for harm to come to those who do well, or those who give you gifts, because you aren't them.

This is your personal projection, because you can't imagine that if you yourself (or Europeans) had the ability that you would not endeavor to become "master" over others.

You are trapped by your own willfull blindness and dark heart.

It's all your fantasy, as is the comic book world that you say you'd prefer to live in. As I said, you don't see -- it's you yourself that you are harming, and bringing the rest (all of us, including your own Europe) down with you.

But, never mind. Don't examine your own motives. Don't change now. It's too late. You win. You will have the "underworld" existence you so long for.

Here are some links for you (Warning: Their contents are logical and rational, which may not be to your tastes):

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/reflections-from-second-draft/game-theory-and-social-emotions/

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/essays-on-france/paris-notes-summer-2004/

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2007/11/05/michael-n-reflections-on-europes-moral-dilemma/#more-1031

Try clicking links on the right of the blog, especially those under "Reflections from the Second Draft."

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